Pavel Ivanovich Mishchenko
Pavel Mishchenko ( Russian Павел Иванович Мищенко * 10 . Jul / 22. January 1853 greg. , † 1918 ) was a Russian general in the Russian Imperial Army .
biography
Pavel Mishchenko was born in Temir-Khan-Shuran , Dagestan in 1853 . He graduated from the Moscow Military High School and then the Pauls War School. During the following years he served in the infantry until he was promoted to colonel. Two years as assistant to the finance minister followed. From 1903 he took over as commander of the Transbaikal Cossack Brigade , with which he carried out reconnaissance missions in North Korea at the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War . He then took part in the battles of Shaho , Hsimucheng , Liaoyang and Sandepu . In the last-mentioned battle he led the so-calledMishchenko raid , which was unsuccessful. During this action he was wounded in the leg and consequently did not take part in the then largest land battle of Mukden .
After his recovery he took over the newly established Ural-Transbaykal Cossack division.
After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, he was appointed Governor General of the General Government of Turkestan , which he held from May 1908 to March 1909. In 1910 he was appointed general of the artillery and was the ataman of the Don Cossacks from 1911 to 1912 . At the beginning of the First World War he was appointed commander of the II. Caucasian Army Corps and from 1915 commanded the XXXI. Army Corps on the Southwest Front.
He was removed from his post after the February Revolution . He then returned to his hometown Temir-Khan-Shura, where he was murdered by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution .
Awards
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Russian Order of Saint Anne 3rd Degree with Sword and Bow, 1873 -
Order of St. Vladimir , 4th degree with sword and bow, 1877/78 -
Russian Order of Saint George , 4th grade, 1900 -
Order of Saint Vladimir , 3rd degree, 1901
- Golden saber of honor of St. George, 1904/05
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Russian Order of Saint Anne 1st degree with sword and bow, 1914
- Russian Order of Alexander Nevsky , with swords, 1914
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literature
- Connaughton, RM (1988). The War of the Rising Sun and the Tumbling Bear — A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-5 , London, ISBN 0-415-00906-5 .
- Kowner, Rotem (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War. Scarecrow, ISBN 0-8108-4927-5 .
- Streffleur's Military Journal: Volume 1; Volume 47 , 1906.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mishchenko, Pavel Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ми́щенко, Па́вел Ива́нович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Temir-Khan-Shuran , Dagestan |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1918 |