Vasily Arsenievich Boysman 1st ( January 15, 1855 - September 8, 1905 ) - Captain of the 1st rank ( September 14, 1899 ), participated in the defense of Port Arthur as commander of the battleship Peresvet .
| Vasily Arsenievich Boysman | |||||||||
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| Date of Birth | January 15, 1855 | ||||||||
| Date of death | September 8, 1905 (aged 50) | ||||||||
| Place of death | Matsuyama | ||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||||
| Type of army |  Russian imperial fleet | ||||||||
| Years of service | 1873 - 1905 | ||||||||
| Rank |  1st rank captain | ||||||||
| Commanded | destroyer Suchena , mine transport "Aleut" , cannon beaver the horseman cruiser, the cruiser " Gaydamak ", battleship "Relight" | ||||||||
| Battles / wars | Chinese camping Russian-Japanese war | ||||||||
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Biography
From a family of baptized Jews, the son of a former cantonist . I got the opportunity to enter the Naval Corps due to the fact that his older brother N. A. Boysman in the civil service reached the position of vice director of the Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior.
He graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps (1875), Mine Officer Class (1880). Until 1886, he served on the Baltic Sea - went as a midshipman on the Rusalka tower gunboat, in the fall of 1875 went on a voyage around the world on the Kreiser frigate under the command of Lieutenant Commander K. N. Nazimov ; during the campaign he was promoted to the rank of midshipman on September 23, 1876. Upon returning from the campaign in 1877, he served as an inspector on the Gilyak corvette for some time, and then was sent to the North American United States to be appointed to one of the cruisers. Enlisted in the command of Lieutenant Commander F.K. Avelan . After completing the course in the Mine Officer Class, he was enlisted in mine officers of the 2nd rank on September 19, 1880. January 1, 1881 promoted to the rank of lieutenant . Until 1886, he served as a mine officer on a number of ships of the Baltic Fleet.
In 1886-1887 - the passage by mine transport " Aleut " (under the command of the captain of the 2nd rank A.N. Parenago ) to the Pacific Ocean. Since 1887 he served in the Far East - voluntarily remained in the Siberian Flotilla. The commander of the destroyer Suchena (1889-1890). Acting chief minister and artilleryman of the Vladivostok port (1890-1892), was promoted to captain of the 2nd rank on April 21, 1891, due to the lack of naval officers at that time, the port vessels were also under his command - military transport Yakut and " Tungus ”, port tug“ Strongman ”. Head of the sighting station (1891-1892). Senior officer of the seafaring gunboat " Beaver " (1892-1895). In 1894 he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav II degree . The commander of the Aleut transport (1895-1897), the head of the school of mine drivers (1896), the commander of the naval gunboat Bobr (1897-1898), the mine cruisers Horseman (1898), and Gaydamak (1898-1899). September 14, 1899 "for distinction in service" was promoted to captain of the 1st rank with the dismissal of the commander of the cruiser II rank "Gaydamak".
Produced: for distinction in service, to captains of the 1st rank: commander of the mine cruiser "Gaydamak", captain of the 2nd rank Boysman 1st, with dismissal, on the basis of Art. 123, book VIII Code of Pestilence. Fast.
Senior Assistant Port Commander in Port Arthur (1899-1900), in charge of destroyers and gunboats in Port Arthur (1900-1902). On September 22, 1901, "for his 25 years of service in officer ranks and the commission of eight six-month naval campaigns," he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir IV degree with a bow . He participated in the Russian-Chinese war of 1900-1901 . The commander of the squadron battleship " Relight " (April 1902 - July 29, 1904 ). He was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the 3rd degree with swords (1904). He was seriously wounded in the battle on July 28, 1904, was treated at the Port Arthur Maritime Hospital, and upon surrendering the city, he refused to evacuate, saying: “If my sailors are held captive, then I, as the commander, are with them. I will not leave them ” ; fell into Japanese captivity, died of wounds in the city of Matsuyama . At the funeral, V.A. Boysman was given military honors, the guard of honor of Japanese sailors was appointed, military commander Matsuyama Colonel Kono and General Okabe came to say goodbye to him.
He was reburied in 1906 at the Pokrovsky cemetery in Vladivostok . In 1994, at the cemetery of about. Shikoku erected a monument to him.
A bank and a bay in the Gulf of Peter the Great of the Sea of Japan in the southern part of the Primorsky Territory of Russia are named in honor of V.A. Boysman. Hando Island in the Sea of Japan was also named after V. A. Boysman [1] . However, at present, the Russian name of this island is not mapped.
See also
- Battleship "Relight" - Fight in the Yellow Sea