Andrei Nikolajewitsch Seliwanow

Andrei Selivanov

Andrei Nikolaevich Selivanov ( Russian Андрей Николаевич Селиванов * August 5 ^{. Jul} / 17th August  1847 ^greg. , † July 15 ^jul. / 28 July  1917 ^greg. ) Was an Imperial Russian officer, most recently General of Infantry .

Life

Selivanov came from a noble family from the Moscow governorate . He was educated for orphans in the Alexander Cadet Corps and joined the armed forces in 1863. In 1866 he graduated from the Mikhail Artillery School in Saint Petersburg and was assigned to the 14th Artillery Brigade as Podporutschik . He was retired from 1867 to 1870. After returning to the field artillery , he was promoted to staff captain until 1873 . He took part in the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877/78, in which he gained the rank of captainreached. He then completed his intermittent training at the Nicholas Academy of the General Staff and was assigned to the staff of the 12th Cavalry Division as a senior adjutant . Here he also served from 1880 to 1884 as a staff officer for special tasks with the rank of lieutenant colonel and temporarily commanded a battalion of the 131st Tiraspol Infantry Regiment . In 1883 he was promoted to colonel .

In 1884 Selivanov was assigned to the staff of the Kiev Military District, and in the following year he was among the officers who were subordinate to the main staff of the General Staff. From 1887 he worked here in the mobilization department. In 1889 he became chief of staff of the 8th Cavalry Division under General Borosdin. After a two-year service as commander of the 111th Infantry Regiment from 1893, he was promoted to major general in 1895 and appointed district quartermaster in the Vilnius military district.

In 1899 he was transferred to the Far Eastern (Priamursky) military district, where Seliwanow became chief of staff under General Nikolai Grodekow. Selivanov took part in the campaign in China in 1900/01 and was promoted to lieutenant general in early 1901 . In the summer of 1901 he became the commander of the 16th Infantry Division in Białystok and at the beginning of 1904 switched to the 13th Infantry Division in Sevastopol in the same function . For his participation in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904/05, he was awarded several medals and the Golden Sword for bravery . He temporarily commanded the 17th Army Corps here and was wounded.

From 1906 to 1910 Selivanov served as governor general in Irkutsk and commander of the Irkutsk military district and ataman of the Transbaikal Cossacks . In 1907 he was promoted to General of the Infantry . In 1910 he was accepted into the State Council of the Russian Empire .

After the beginning of the First World War , Selivanov, who was well over 60 years old, was reactivated and in autumn 1914 appointed commander of the siege forces off Przemyśl , from which the 11th Army emerged a little later . For taking the fortress in March 1915, he was awarded the 3rd Class Order of St. George . His army was then disbanded and reorganized as a field army on the southwest front. In April 1915, Selivanov gave his command post to Dmitri Shcherbachev and from then on devoted himself to his duties in the State Council. He died in the summer of 1917 at the age of 69.

literature

• К. А. Залесский: Кто был кто в Первой мировой войне. АСТ, 2003, pp. 553-554.

Web links

• Career data on grwar.ru (Russian)
• Biographical information on 1914ww.ru (Russian)