Alexander Vladimirovich Razvosov

Alexander Vladimirovich Razvosov

Alexander Vladimirovich Raswosow ( Russian Александр Владимирович Развозов ; born July 27, 1879 in Reval , † June 14, 1920 in Petrograd ) was a Russian naval officer and admiral . He was the last in command of the Russian Baltic Fleet before the October Revolution.

Life

Rasvosow came from a family of naval officers from Saint Petersburg. In 1898 he graduated from the Naval Cadet School, received the rank of Mitschman and took part in trips abroad on the cruiser Gerzog Edimburgskij from 1899–1900 . From 1900 to 1901 he was trained as a mine officer and then served as a mine officer 2nd class on the liner Retwisan . With this he was transferred from Kronstadt to the Far East in 1902 and promoted to lieutenant at sea on the journey . Appointed mining officer 1st class, he took part in the Siege of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War and also fought in the Battle of the Yellow Sea . Since he did not undertake on his word of honor to renounce further fighting against Japan after the fall of Port Arthur, he became a prisoner of war and did not return to Russia until 1906 with the last prisoners. Razvozov was a teacher at the naval school in Kronstadt until 1907, after which he was promoted to first officer on the new armored cruiser Rurik and to first lieutenant . In 1909 he became a staff officer before he took over the destroyer Buini in 1911 and was appointed captain of the second rank on December 6, 1912 . From 1913 Razvosov led the destroyer Ussuriets , then he took command of the 5th Destroyer Division and from May 1915 the 9th Destroyer Division, where he was promoted to captain of the first rank . From 1916 he commanded the 2nd Destroyer Division and was appointed head of the mining department of the Baltic Fleet on March 6, 1917, before taking command of the Baltic Fleet on July 6 of the same year after the February Revolution as the sixth commander since the beginning of the First World War received. On July 18, he was promoted to rear admiral . In October 1917, Razvosov was in command of the Russian naval forces during the German operation Albion , but could not prevent the loss of the Baltic Islands. With the outbreak of the October Revolution , Razvosov submitted to the high command of the Bolsheviks on November 20 and was released from his post on December 5, but took over the position of chief of the Baltic Fleet from March 12, 1918. On March 20, however, he was also relieved of this command and arrested on the grounds that he did not want to be bound by the decrees of the Council of People's Commissars and placed under the Naval Commissariat. He was released shortly afterwards and worked in the Naval Archives Commission for Naval History on the representation of Russian naval undertakings in World War I. In September 1919 he was arrested again by the Cheka on charges of conspiracy and imprisoned in Petrograd's Kresty Prison , allegedly the white commander General Yudenich is said to have offered him the post of commander of the Baltic fleet again in the event that Petrograd was taken.

death

Razvozov died on June 14, 1920 in the hospital of the Petrograd Kresty Prison as a result of negligent care after an appendix operation. He was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

Awards

• Order of St. Vladimir , IV class with swords and bows
• Russian Order of Saint Anne , II class with swords
• Order of St. Anne, IV class with the inscription "For bravery"
• Order of St. Stanislaus , II class with swords
• Knight of the Legion of Honor
• Sword of the Order of St. George
• Awards from Montenegro and Denmark