Radko Dimitriev

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Radko Dimitriev

Radko Dimitriev (* 24. September 1859 in Gradez, province Sliven , Ottoman Empire ; † 18th October 1918 in Pyatigorsk , Russia) was a Bulgarian officer in the First World War, most recently as General of Infantry in Russia stood services.

Life

Dimitriev was born the son of a teacher in what was then Ottoman Bulgaria. He took part in the April uprising against Ottoman rule in 1876 and joined the Russian Life Guard Uhlan Regiment in the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877/78. After the independence of the Principality of Bulgaria , he graduated from the military school in Sofia in 1879 and the Nikolaevsky military academy in Saint Petersburg in 1884 . In 1885 he took part in the Serbian-Bulgarian War , in which he distinguished himself. In 1886 he was one of the co-conspirators in the putsch against the ruling Prince Alexander von Battenberg and then went into exile in Romania . From 1887 he was in the service of the Russian army for ten years and was deployed in the Caucasus .

After his return to Bulgaria he became Chief of Staff of the 5th Infantry Division on the Danube in 1898 and in 1904 Chief of the Operations Department of the General Staff . From 1904 to 1907 he held the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Bulgarian Army . In 1909 he became head of the 3rd Army Inspection. After the outbreak of the First Balkan War , he led the 3rd Army to victories at Kirkkilise and Lüleburgaz . In the Second Balkan War he was Deputy Commander in Chief of the Bulgarian Army. He was then appointed ambassador to Saint Petersburg .

After the outbreak of World War I, he returned to the service of the Russian army and received Russian citizenship. With the rank of lieutenant general , he received command of the VIII Army Corps and took part in the battle of Galicia . After Nikolai Russki was appointed Commander in Chief of the Northwest Front, he took over his 3rd Army and played a key role in the winter battle in the Carpathians . After the breakthrough battle of Gorlice-Tarnów in the spring of 1915, he was removed from his post and downgraded as commanding general of the II Siberian Army Corps . In March 1916 he received another army command, this time via the 12th Army near Riga . After the February Revolution of 1917 he was transferred to the reserve - allegedly due to illness - and went to southern Russia for treatment. After the Russian Civil War broke out in May 1918, he was taken hostage by the Bolsheviks in September 1918 and murdered on October 18, along with General Russky and others, near Pyatigorsk at the foot of Mount Maschuk.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olga and Thomas de Hartmann: Expeditions into the wonderful . Chalice, Xanten 2019, p. 135 ( contemporary witness report ).

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SURNAME Dimitriev, Radko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Димитриев, Радко (Bulgarian); Радко-Дмитриев, Радко Дмитриевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian and Russian general
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Gradez , province Sliven , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1918
Place of death Pyatigorsk