Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov

Sakharov on the cover of Le Pays de France

Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov ( Russian Владимир Викторович Сахаров ; * May 20, 1853 , † in August 1920 near Qarasuvbazar , Crimea ) was an Imperial Russian officer, most recently a general of the cavalry .

Life

Sakharov came from a noble family from the Moscow Governorate and was raised in the Moscow Cadet Corps. In 1871 he graduated from military school and was accepted as a lieutenant in the Life Guard Grenadier Regiment. In 1878 he graduated from the Nikolaus General Staff Academy as a staff captain and took part with a cavalry unit in the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877/78. He then worked as an instructor at various cavalry schools.

From 1891 to 1893 he was Colonel Chief of Staff of the 14th Infantry Division and the Kronstadt Fortress , before he was given command of the 38th Dragoon Regiment until 1897. Promoted to major general, he then served as Chief of Staff of the V Army Corps. From 1899 to 1901 he served as chief of staff in a corps of border troops in the Russo-Chinese War . He then led the 4th Cavalry Division as Lieutenant General until 1903 , after which he took over the 1st Siberian Army Corps , which he led in 1904 in the beginning Russo-Japanese War . In April 1904 he was appointed Chief of the Manchurian Army Field Staff. After the Battle of the Shaho , General Kuropatkin became Chief of Staff of the Commander-in-Chief over all Far Eastern Armed Forces, but was largely ignored by the latter. He was also a member of the Alexander Committee for the Care of the Wounded.

From 1906 to 1911, Sakharov commanded the VII Army Corps and was promoted to general of the cavalry in 1908. He then served again in the Alexander Committee before he took command of the XI at the end of 1913. Army Corps received. With this he took part in the battle of Galicia after the beginning of the First World War as part of the 3rd Army . From the end of August 1914 to April 1915 he led the Orenburg Cossack units as governor and ataman , then again the XI. Army Corps. In the fall of 1915 he received command of the 11th Army , which at that time was at the Strypa . With her he took part in the Brusilov Offensive in 1916 before he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Danube Army, which was deployed in the Romanian theater of war , in the autumn of 1916 . From December 1916 he was assigned to the Commander- in -Chief on the Romanian front, King Ferdinand I , as Chief of Staff. After the February Revolution of 1917 he was dismissed from this post and received no further employment, but remained a member of the Alexander Committee. He was shot in August 1920 in the Crimea by insurgent " Greens ".

Sakharov's older brother Viktor was a lieutenant general and minister of war from 1904 to 1905.

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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