Bashkir memorial stone (Leipzig)
The Bashkir memorial stone is a granite boulder with a text plaque near the Russian Church in Leipzig , which commemorates the participation of Bashkir fighters in the Battle of Leipzig .
When Tsar Alexander I announced the foreign campaign to expel Napoleon in December 1812 , Bashkir troops joined the Russian army alongside other minorities in the multi-ethnic state. A total of 28 Bashkir regiments (Pulks, Russian полки) were set up. They were among the light equestrian associations and did not wear a mandatory uniform. Apart from a light saber, rarely a lance, their armament consisted almost entirely of a bow and about four feet long arrows in a quiver. Because of their fast and agile fighting style, like the Cossacks , they were very feared by their opponents.
Twelve of the Bashkir pulks fighting on German soil in 1813 are listed under their regimental numbers. In the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig, the Bashkirs fought and fell in units of the Silesian Army , the Northern Army and the Reserve Army.
The Bashkirs Irek Baischew and Nassar Juruschbajew, who live in Germany, dedicated the memorial stone to them and their relatives with the support of the city of Leipzig on the 190th anniversary of the Battle of Nations in 2003. The text on the tablet in German, Bashkir and Russian reads:
" Battle of Nations 1813.
In memory of the Bashkir people, whose sons served in the army of the Russian army,
City of Leipzig, 2003, IF Baischew and NA Juruschbajew "
On the right is the contour of an archery Bashkir horseman.
The panel was formerly made of bronze and the equestrian figure was partially underlaid with the text. It was stolen. In its place there is now a text board made of glass.
A stone similar to the one in Leipzig was erected in 2006 in Dresden - Altmockritz .
literature
- Markus Cottin, Gina Klank, Karl-Heinz Kretzschmar, Dieter Kürschner, Ilona Petzold: Leipziger Denkmale , Volume 2. Sax-Verlag Beucha, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86729-036-4 , p. 116.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 26 ″ N , 12 ° 23 ′ 45 ″ E