Nikolai Iudowitsch Ivanov
Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov ( Russian Николай Иудович Иванов * July 22 . Jul / 3. August 1851 greg. , † 27. January 1919 in Odessa ) was an Imperial Russian officer, most recently General of Artillery in the First World War .
Life
Ivanov came from a family with a military tradition in Kaluga Governorate . He was educated in the St. Petersburg Cadet Corps and graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in 1869. He then served in artillery units. He took part in the Russian-Ottoman War of 1877/78 as a staff captain and was then a trainer for the Romanian army under Eduard Ivanovich Totleben . From 1888 he headed the mobilization department of the main artillery administration.
From 1890 to 1899 he was in command of the artillery of the Kronstadt fortress and was promoted to major general in 1894. He took part in the Chinese Expedition 1900/01 and as commander of the 3rd Siberian Army Corps in the Russo-Japanese War 1904/05. From 1905 to 1907 he commanded the 1st Army Corps in St. Petersburg and took vigorous action against the revolutionary unrest there. In 1908 he was promoted to general of the artillery and appointed commander in chief of the Kiev military district.
When the First World War broke out, he became Commander in Chief of the Southwest Front, which he u. a. in the Battle of Galicia and the Winter Battle in the Carpathian Mountains . After withdrawing from Galicia in 1915, he was replaced by Alexei Brusilov in March 1916 and then served as adjutant general in the headquarters of Nicholas II.
In the course of the February Revolution in 1917 he was tasked with suppressing the unrest in Petrograd, but was in July after the Tsar's abdication on March 2nd . / March 15, Greg. unable to act. He was arrested in Kiev by the local workers 'and soldiers' council and taken to Petrograd, but released at the end of 1917 on Kerensky's initiative . After the October Revolution he joined Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov's white army and in October 1918 became commander-in-chief of the southern army that was being formed. In January 1919 he died of typhus in Odessa .
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| SURNAME | Ivanov, Nikolai Iudowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Иванов, Николай Иудович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian officer, most recently general of the artillery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1851 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1919 |
| Place of death | Odessa |