Dmitri Pavlovich Parsky

Dmitri Pavlovich Parsky

Dmitri Pavlovich Parski ( Russian Дмитрий Павлович Парский ., Scientific transliteration Dmitrij Pavlovič Parskij * October 17 ^{. Jul} / 29. October  1866 ^greg. Near Tula , † 20th December 1921 in Moscow ) was a Russian general .

Military career

Parski came from the nobility of the Tula province. In Orel Cadet Corps trained, he served from 1884 in the troops. In 1886 he graduated from the 2nd Konstantinovsk Military School and was appointed second lieutenant in the 46th Infantry Regiment on the Dnieper . He was promoted to lieutenant in 1889. In 1893, he finished the Nikolai General Staff Academy.

In 1894 Parski Ober became adjutant in the staff of the 34th Infantry Division, in 1895 he was appointed chief officer for training in the 7th Army Corps, and in 1896 as chief adjutant of the staff of the 7th Army Corps. On March 16, 1900, he became Senior Officer for Training of the Odessa Military District and on October 12, 1900, Senior Adjutant of the Staff of the Odessa Military District.

He took part in the Russo-Japanese War from 1904–1905, since November 1904 as senior adjutant to the Quartermaster General of the 3rd Manchurian Army . On October 2, 1905, he was assigned to the General Staff. After the war, he published several articles calling for military reforms.

From March 17, 1908, Parski was in command of the 140th Infantry Regiment. In 1910 he was promoted to major general, he became commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 46th Infantry Division and senior officer of Kostroma .

At the beginning of the First World War he led a brigade in the area of ​​the XXV. Army Corps in Galicia . Between January 31 and August 9, 1915 he was in command of the 80th Reserve Division on the Dniester . On October 17, 1915 he took over the leadership of the 55th Infantry Division. On February 20, 1916, he replaced General Kuropatkin as commanding general of the Grenadier Corps. Between July 20 and September 9, 1917 he was Commander in Chief of the 12th Army on the Northern Front and defended Riga , which was lost before the attack by the German 8th Army . On October 9, 1917, he became Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Army . In February 1918 he was one of the first generals in the Tsarist army to take the side of the Bolsheviks and in the Russian Civil War initially commanded the Red Army troops on the Narva Front , then as Commander-in-Chief of the entire Northern Front. In December 1921 he died of typhus .

literature

• N. Ogarkow and others: Sovetskaya wojennaja enziklopedija: Obekty-Radiokompas . Wojenisdat, Moscow 1978, p. 227. (Russian)