Nikolai Alexandrovich Kashtalinsky ( 1849 - 1917 ) - Russian general, participant in the Russian-Japanese war .
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| Affiliation |  Russian empire |
| Type of army | infantry |
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| Awards and prizes | Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1875), Order of St. Vladimir , 4th art. (1877), Order of St. Anne , 2nd art. (1877), Order of St. Stanislav , 2nd art. (1877), Order of St. George , 4th art. (1905), Order of St. Anne , 1st art. (1905), Order of the White Eagle (1915), Order of St. George , 3rd art. (1916). |
Biography
Nikolai Kashtalinsky was born in 1849. He was brought up in the Pavlovsk Cadet Corps, the 2nd St. Petersburg Military Gymnasium and the 1st Military Pavlovsk School, from which he was promoted to second lieutenant in the 1st Grenadier Rifle Battalion in 1869.
Having transferred to the 6th Turkestan Line Battalion in 1874, in the summer of 1875 Kashtalinsky took part in two expeditions of General Abramov to the Zarafshan Gorge and was awarded the Order of St. for the battle near Oburdan . 3rd degree Anna with swords and bow. With the beginning of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. Kashtalinsky, of his own free will, was enlisted in the Bulgarian militia, took part with him in the defense of Shipka , where he was wounded, and for military distinctions he was awarded the ranks of the captain and captain and orders of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree with swords and bow, St. Anne of the 2nd degree with swords and St. Stanislav 2nd degree with swords.
At the end of the war, Kashtalinsky held the posts of the Cuban district military commander , the Andean district chief, commanded the 1st Caucasian native reserve squad (1887), the 2nd Caucasian native rifle squad (1888) and the Ardagan reserve infantry regiment (1889); from 1890 to 1900 he managed the Murgab Sovereign estate, in 1899 he was promoted to major general, and in 1900 he retired due to illness.
In 1902, he again decided on the service with the appointment of the 33rd Infantry Division as the commander of the 1st Brigade, in 1903 he was appointed head of the 3rd East Siberian Rifle Brigade, and in 1904 - the commander of the 3rd East Siberian Rifle Division division, with which he took part in the Russian-Japanese war . Kashtalinsky fell to direct command of the troops of the Eastern detachment in a battle near Tyurenchen , during which he was shell-shocked. Then his division honorably withstood the battles at Liaoyang , on the Shah River, and also near Mukden , in which Kashtalinsky showed great personal courage and determination. The reward was the Order of St. George 4th degree (highest order of November 1, 1905)
| Commanding the 3rd East Siberian Rifle Division, which steadily withstood the blows of significant enemy forces near Lyandyasan and Liaoyang, he showed high personal courage, calmness and decisiveness |
Among other awards for this war, Kashtalinsky received the Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree with swords and st. Anne 1st degree with swords and the rank of lieutenant general. In 1907, Kashtalinsky was included in the lists of the 11th East Siberian Rifle Regiment, the most distinguished near Tyurenchen, and in 1907 he was appointed commander of the 4th Army Corps . At the end of 1908, he retired with the production of generals from infantry.
With the outbreak of World War I, he returned to duty and was appointed commander of the 28th Army Corps on September 26, 1914, and in 1915 was awarded the Order of the White Eagle with swords; October 6, 1915 was credited to the reserve of ranks at the headquarters of the Kiev military district. On April 20, 1916 he was appointed commander of the 40th Army Corps, and for the battles of May-June 1916 he was awarded the Order of St. August 4 of that year . George 3rd degree
| Because, during the operation of breaking through the Austrian front, on May 22 – June 12, 1916, commanding the army corps ... he drove the enemy to Lutsk non-stop, and the rifle division of his corps was the first to enter Lutsk, and this was taken captivity of 457 officers, 21,278 lower ranks, 39 guns, 68 machine guns |
In November 1916 he was appointed a member of the Alexander Committee on the Wounded. He was killed on April 17, 1917 in Petrograd near a house by a mentally ill soldier.
Sources
- Kashtalinsky, Nikolai Alexandrovich // Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 vol.] / Ed. V.F. Novitsky [et al.]. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1911-1915.
- Zalessky K. A. Who was who in the First World War. - M .: AST ; Astrel, 2003 .-- 896 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-17-019670-9 (ACT); ISBN 5-271-06895-1 (Astrel).
- Obituary // "Light." 1917. No. 83. April 20.
Links
- Biography of Kashtalinsky N.A. on the Chronos website
- Kashtalinsky, Nikolai Alexandrovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".