Alexander Ivanovich Berezovsky

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Cyrillic ( Russian )
Александр Иванович Березовскийй
Transl. : Aleksandr Ivanovič Berezovskij
Transcr. : Alexander Ivanovich Berezovsky
Alexander Berezovsky 1918

Alexander Ivanovich Berezovsky (born December 2, jul. / 14. December  1867 greg. In Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 15. October 1940 in Berlin , Germany ) was a lieutenant general in the General Staff of the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War and General of the White Army during the Russian Civil War .

biography

1886 was Berezovsky graduate of the Petrovsky-Poltava - Cadet Corps ( Петровский полтавский кадетский корпус ) in Poltava . He then attended the Mikhailovsky Artillery School (1889) in Saint Petersburg and the Nicholas Academy of the General Staff (1896) in Saint Petersburg. During World War I he was Chief of Staff of the 10th Army Corps of the Imperial Russian Army.

In 1917 he joined the Ukrainian People's Army . In October 1918 he went to the Russian army of General Wrangel in the Crimea , with whom he was evacuated from the Crimea in November 1920. As a member of the White Movement , he emigrated to Berlin after a short stay in Constantinople . There he was for many years chairman of the department of the Berlin Society of Russian General Staff Officers. At the end of 1938 he was appointed head of the third division of the Association of Russian Military Alliances in Germany and deputy chairman of the association. He died at the age of 72 and was buried in the Russian cemetery in Berlin-Tegel (Block 2, Row 1 «а»).

Honors

On June 18, 1915 he was awarded the Order of St. George 4th grade. In addition, he received the Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd (1903) and 2nd (1909) grades and in 1906 the Order of St. Anne 3rd class and in 1912 2nd class. He was awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir on February 3, 1914.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Russian Orthodox Cemetery Berlin-Tegel , accessed on May 25, 2015
  2. ↑ a b The history of Petrovskij-poltavskij-kadetskij-korpus - biographies of Alexander Ivanovich Berezovsky , accessed on May 25, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Berezovsky, Alexander Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Березовский, Александр Иванович (Russian); Berezovskij, Aleksandr Ivanovič (transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian general
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1940
Place of death Berlin , Germany