Yuri (George) Aleksandrovich Reinhardt (1897-1976) - member of the White Movement in southern Russia, lieutenant of the Markov Regiment .
| Yuri Alexandrovich Reingardt | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | January 5 (17), 1897 |
| Date of death | April 5, 1976 (aged 79) |
| Place of death | Brussels , Belgium |
| Affiliation |  White movement |
| Rank | second lieutenant |
| Battles / wars | Civil War |
| Awards and prizes |  |
Biography
The son of the Oryol lawyer Alexander Nikolayevich Reinhardt, who was shot in the Crimea in 1920.
During the First World War he was a student at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages . At the end of the Alexander Military School on June 1, 1917 he was promoted to ensign . On a special request, he was immediately sent to the front and assigned to the 175th Baturinsky Infantry Regiment , where he was appointed junior officer in the 8th company. Then he was the head of the team of trench guns in the same regiment. At the end of 1917 he was a member of the Alekseyev organization in Petrograd.
In November 1917 he arrived in the Don, where he joined the partisan detachment of Colonel Chernetsov , in January 1918 he was in the 1st officer battalion. Participated in the 1st Kuban campaign in the 1st company of the Officer Regiment . In October 1918 - in the same company. On February 11, 1919, he was assigned to the protection of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich , and on April 1 of the same year he was transferred to the security company at the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander of the All-Union Socialist League . In May 1919 he returned to the Markovsky regiment, was appointed head of the reconnaissance team of the 4th battalion. In August 1919 he was appointed company commander in the newly formed 2nd Markov Regiment . Second Lieutenant , was awarded the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker . On December 18, 1920 - as part of the Markov Regiment in Gallipoli , in the fall of 1925 - Private Kornilov Regiment in Bulgaria.
In exile in Belgium. He worked as a taxi driver. Captain. He wrote memoirs about the Civil War, published in the journals “Herald of the Pioneer”, “Communication along the Markovites” and “The Pioneer”. He was a member of the editorial board of the journal "Herald of the Pioneer." In addition, he wrote poems and fairy tales, was engaged in poetic translations. He died in 1976 in Brussels. The surviving works of Yu.A. Reinhardt were published in a separate collection in 2010.
Family
Since 1928 he was married to Olga Ivanovna Romanovskaya (1910-1989), daughter of General I.P. Romanovsky . Their kids:
- Sergius (1932-2006), graduated from the Agronomy Institute, was the protodeacon of the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Brussels.
- Natalia (born 1929), was a translator at the Belgian embassy in Moscow and personal secretary Lilian Bels , the second wife of the Belgian king Leopold III. In 1950, she founded the Russian Amateur Theater in Brussels, which has been the leader since then.
Sources
- Sorrowful leaflet. Cap Reinhardt. // Pioneer, No. 30. - 1976.
- Volkov S.V. White movement. Encyclopedia of Civil War. - St. Petersburg: "Neva", 2002. - S. 460.
- Reinhardt Yu. A. “We are not dead for our Motherland ...” // Memoirs. Poems. Fairy tales. - Moscow - Brussels, 2010.