Mikhail Nikolaevich Kalnitsky ( November 6, 1870 , Tiflis - June 29, 1961 , Paris ) - an active figure in the white emigration .
| Mikhail Nikolaevich Kalnitsky | |||||||||
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| Date of Birth | November 6, 1870 | ||||||||
| Place of Birth | Tiflis | ||||||||
| Date of death | June 29, 1961 (90 years old) | ||||||||
| Place of death | Paris | ||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire White movement | ||||||||
| Rank | lieutenant general | ||||||||
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Biography
From the hereditary nobles of the Poltava province .
In 1891 he graduated from the military training course of the Moscow Infantry Cadet School and was released into the 39th artillery brigade. He graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff (1899).
Since 1900, he served in the General Staff in the troops of the 1st Caucasian Army Corps and the Caucasian Military District .
In 1904-1905, the lieutenant colonel participated in the Russo-Japanese War - the headquarters officer for assignments under the command of the chief of military communications of the 3rd Manchurian Army.
Since 1906 - Colonel , chief of staff of the 6th district border guard.
Since 1914 - Major General .
World War I
From August 1914 to June 1915 - commander of the 14th Grenadier Georgian Regiment (from September 27, 1914 - Major General ). He was awarded the St. George arms
| For the fact that on January 25, 1915, personally leading a detachment of 4 battalions with artillery, he took a bayonet attack on the strongly fortified position of the Germans at the church and cemetery in the village. Camion Privislinsky, moreover, our officers captured 3 officers and 300 lower ranks, and the success achieved was firmly fixed. |
In May 1915 - May 1916 - Chief of Staff of the 7th Siberian Rifle Corps.
From May 4 to November of the same year - chief of staff of the 5th Caucasian Army Corps.
From November 1916 to January 1918 - commander of the 123rd Infantry Division.
Civil War
In November 1918 he joined the Volunteer Army .
In February - October 1919 - the commander of the Consolidated Cavalry Division, in October - November - the commander of a group of troops (Terskaya brigade, Poltava detachment and other units), which defended Poltava and moved to the Donetsk region.
In December 1919 - January 1920 - commander of the 5th cavalry corps.
Emigration
In March 1920 he emigrated to Serbia , settled in Zagreb . He achieved through the People’s Assembly the adoption of a law on government assistance to Russian military invalids.
Since 1923, he was an assistant to the chairman of the Foreign Union of Russian military invalids, cavalry general N. N. Baratov , since 1929, he was deputy chairman of the Foreign Union of Russian military invalids, head of the financial department of the Main Board of the Union.
At the end of March 1932 (after the death of Baratov) he was elected chairman of the Foreign Union of Russian Military Disabled at the All-Foreign Delegate Congress in Sofia. He remained in this position until the end of his life.
Wife - Lidia Dmitrievna Kalnitskaya (1874-1937).
He died in Paris , was buried on July 3, 1961 in the Russian Cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois .
Community Activities
He raised funds for a fund to help Russian military invalids, created nursing homes for them (for example, the House of Russian Disabled in Montmorency near Paris); published the newspaper "Russian disabled person" (first monthly, and after the Second World War - annually).
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1905)
- Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree with swords and bow (1906)
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree with swords (1906)
- Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree with swords (1907)
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1911)
- St. George's weapon (07.28.1915)
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree with swords (1915)
- Order of St. Anne 1st degree with swords (1915)
- Order of St. Vladimir 2nd degree with swords (07/08/1916)
Literature
- Major Generals // List of generals by seniority. Corrected on July 10, 1916. - Petrograd: Military printing house of Empress Catherine the Great, 1916. - S. 133.
Links
- Kalnitsky, Mikhail Nikolaevich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".