Dmitri Alexandrovich Dolgow

Lieutenant General Dmitri Alexandrovich Dolgov

Dmitry Alexandrovich Dolgov , Russian Дмитрий Александрович Долгов (* 18th July 1860 in Voznesensk ; † 23. September 1939 in Brussels ) was a Russian general of the infantry in the First World War .

Life

Dmitri Alexandrovich, born in 1840, was the son of Major General Alexander Ivanovich Dolgov, who came from the nobility of the Moscow Province. He received his secondary education in the St. Petersburg Military High School . His brother Alexander Dolgow later became lieutenant general like himself and commanded the artillery of several army corps during the First World War.

Military career

On August 12, 1876, Dmitri Dolgov was enrolled at the Pavlovsk Military School, where he was retired on April 16, 1878 as an ensign for the 24th Artillery Brigade. On December 20, 1879 he was promoted to second lieutenant and December 18, 1880 to lieutenant . In 1882 he passed the entrance exams to the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff, which he successfully completed in 1884. After graduating from the Academy, he was transferred to the General Staff and promoted to captain on March 25, 1884 . He then became a member of the War Council of the Omsk Military District , where he was appointed assistant to the chief adjutant of the district commander from November 9 and was promoted to captain on March 29, 1885. On October 3, 1887, he was appointed chief of the operations department at the headquarters of the Kiev fortress area . From October 1, 1888 to October 1, 1889, he commanded a company in the 43rd Infantry Battalion and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 1, 1890 and appointed chief of special tasks under the command of the Kazan Military District.

From July 4, 1891 he was a staff officer in command of the 42nd Infantry Reserve Brigade. From May 1 to September 7, 1893, he held a battalion command in the 166th Infantry Regiment of Rovno . On April 17, 1894 he was promoted to colonel and on January 25, 1898 appointed chief of staff of the 42nd Infantry Division. On May 7, 1901, he was given command of the 131st Infantry Regiment from Tiraspol . On July 14, 1903 he was appointed district captain of the Vilna district and promoted to major general on December 6 of the same year . On November 27, 1905 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the XXI. Army Corps and on November 28, 1908 he took over the command of the 60th Infantry Brigade. On July 3, 1910, Dolgow was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed commander of the 46th Infantry Division.

In the first World War

At the beginning of the First World War he led the 46th Division in the Association of the XXV in the battle of Galicia . Army Corps (Gen. Inf. Sujew ) in the 5th Army . On September 25, 1914 he was awarded the Order of St. George 4th Class for organizing the Osowiec Fortress . On June 24, 1915, he took over the leadership of the XIX. Army Corps and distinguished himself in the Battle of Schaulen (1915) . On November 16, 1915 of the same year, he was transferred to the reserves of the headquarters of the Petrograd Military District. In early 1916 he became the commander of the XXXVII. Army Corps, soon afterwards transferred to the 7th Siberian Army Corps of the 12th Army on the Northern Front. In the same year this corps was moved to the southwest front and participated in the offensive against the Austrians in Volhynia . In September 1916, some parts of the corps refused to continue the attack. As a result of this incident, Dolgov was removed from his post and transferred to the reserves of the Kiev Military District Headquarters.

Last listed in the reserves of the Moscow Military District Headquarters, he was promoted to General of the Infantry on June 15, 1917 , and then retired from service after receiving his pension. After the October Revolution of 1917 , Dolgow joined the Red Army voluntarily , was listed there as a board member of a military history commission and remained employed there to convey his war experience from 1914-1918. In May 1920 he was transferred to the field service of the Red Army and was available to the commission to clarify the operational situation for the handover of Tambov . After 1920 he received permission to leave the country and emigrated to Belgium , where he died in exile in Brussels in 1939.

literature

• К. А. Залесский: Кто был кто во второй мировой войне. Союзники Германии . Москва, 2003, p. 218 ISBN 5-17-019670-9
• С. В. Волков: Генералитет Российской империи . Энциклопедический словарь генералов и адмиралов от Петра I до Николая Москва, 2009.— ISBN 978-5-9524-4166-8

Web links

• Biography on www.grwar.ru