Vsevolod Fyodorovich Rudnew
Vsevolod Rudnev ( Russian Всеволод Фёдорович Руднев * August 19 jul. / 31 August 1855 greg. In Dünamünde , Governorate of Livonia , † 7 July . Jul / 20th July 1913 . Greg in Myschonki at Tula ) was a Russian naval officer .
Rudnew joined the Imperial Russian Navy . At the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War he was the captain of the cruiser Varyag . The ship, together with the Russian gunboat Korejez, was placed in the port of Tschemulpo by a superior Japanese association and asked to surrender. Rudnev decided to take up the hopeless fight. Both ships were then sunk by their crews.
Vsevolod Rudnev was awarded the St. George Medal and after the war as the first Russian with the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun excellent. He was fired after refusing to punish his sailors after the 1905 uprising and retired as a rear admiral .
literature
- Article Vsevolod Fyodorowitsch Rudnew in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Russians Awarded Order of the Rising Sun in Japan. (No longer available online.) Russkiy Mir Foundation, November 3, 2010, archived from the original on March 29, 2012 ; accessed on March 26, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Rudnew, Vsevolod Fyodorovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Руднев, Всеволод Фёдорович (Russian); Rudnev, Vsevolod Fedorovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian naval officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dünamünde , Livonia Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1913 |
| Place of death | Myschonki near Tula |