Yuri Nikiforowitsch Danilow

Yuri Danilov

Yuri Danilov ( Russian Юрий Никифорович Данилов * August 13 ^{. Jul} / 25. August  1866 ^greg. In Kiev , Russian Empire ; † 3. February 1937 in Paris ) was a Russian officer, most recently General of Infantry .

Life

Danilov was born into a noble family from the Kiev Governorate and joined the Kiev Cadet Corps in 1879 . After graduating in 1883, he went to artillery school, which he graduated as a lieutenant in 1886 . From 1889 to 1892 he attended the Nicholas General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg and graduated with honors. From 1894 to 1898 he served as a staff officer in the Kiev military district, and in 1899 he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel while working in the Petersburg mobilization department. From 1904 to 1905 he was department head in the general staff. He then served in the fortress committee and as the first assistant to the chief quartermaster of the main department in the general staff and held this office himself from 1908 to 1909. From 1909 he served as quartermaster general and was the main author of "Plan 19", the Russian mobilization plan. At the same time he served as chairman of the fortress commission from 1910.

During the First World War, Danilov held the post of Quartermaster General of the Headquarters of the Command of the Supreme Commander . Under the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich Romanov, he worked out the plan of attack for the Battle of the Vistula . For this he received the Russian Order of St. George IV class from the Tsar personally . After Nikolaus II had assumed personal command in September 1915, he was given command of the 25th Army Corps. From August 1916 to May 1917 he held the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Northern Front and was then appointed Commander-in-Chief of the 5th Army . In September 1917 he was transferred to the reserve of the Petrograd Military District.

After the October Revolution he offered his services to the Red Army in early 1918 and was a member of a group of military experts in the peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk . He unsuccessfully opposed the signing of the peace treaty on the terms of the Central Powers and resigned after the treaty was signed. He went back to Ukraine and eventually joined the white volunteer army . After the victory of the Reds in the civil war , he emigrated to Paris via Constantinople. Here he published several works on the Russian army in World War I and a biography of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich .

Fonts

• Russia in World War 1914–1915. Frommannsche Buchhandlung, Jena 1925.
• Towards collapse. A section from the last epoch of the Russian monarchy. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1928.
• Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolajewitsch: His life and work. Berlin 1930.

Web links

Commons : Juri Nikiforowitsch Danilow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography on grwar.ru (Russian)
• Biographical information on hrono.ru (Russian)