Alexei Mikhailovich Shchastny

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Alexei Michailowitsch Schchastny ( Russian Алексей Михайлович Щастный ; born October 16, 1881 in Zhitomir ; † June 22, 1918 in Moscow ) was a Russian naval officer. He came from a family of officers ; his father, Michail Michailowitsch Schchastny, was an artillery officer and was promoted to lieutenant general in 1908 .

Shchastny went through various stations in his career, which began in 1892 in the Cadet Corps, before he switched to the Navy in 1901. In 1913 he was finally promoted to captain 2nd rank and from 1914 served as chief officer on the modern capital ship Poltava . From 1916 he was in command of the older large destroyer Progranitschnik of the Okhotnik class . After the February Revolution he was promoted to captain 1st rank and held staff positions within the Baltic fleet . Alexei Schtschastny was the organizer of the ice march of the Baltic fleet in April 1918 from Reval and Helsingfors to Kronstadt , through which Russia and the Soviet Union practically the entire Baltic fleet was preserved. Shchastny, who had initiated this unusual achievement under the given circumstances, was arrested and shot by the Bolsheviks shortly afterwards , because: "He consciously made himself popular through his act in order to be able to use this popularity later against the Soviet power."

The chief prosecutor of the " All-Russian Central Executive Committee " Krylenko stated that Shchastny was not sentenced to "death" but "to execution", which does not stand in the way of the abolition of the death penalty .

Shchastny was rehabilitated after the fall of the Soviet Union ; In 1992 a street in Zhitomir was named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Fock: Z-before! International Development and War Operations of Destroyers and Torpedo Boats, Vol. 1 . Koehler Verlag, Herford 1989, ISBN 3-7822-0207-4 , p. 193.
  2. ↑ Alexander Issajewitsch Solzhenitsyn : The Gulag Archipelago , Part 1 . Scherz Verlag, Bern, p. 399

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SURNAME Shchastny, Alexei Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shchastnyi, Aleksei Mikhailovich; Алексей Михайлович Щастный
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Zhitomir
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1918
Place of death Moscow