N Wrangel Biography
He died on April 25 in Brussels, Belgium. Lieutenant General of the General Staff. He entered the service on September 1 in G. In December, Anna of the 4th degree with the inscription "For courage" and St. Stanislav with swords and bow. The Georgievsky gentleman-for the capture of the German battery in horseback, according to the orders of the 1st Army of August 30, in September, G.
was awarded with St. George's weapons. Since October, for covering the infantry departure to the Zbruch river line, during the Tarnopol breakthrough of the Germans in July, the decision on August 25, the decision of the Volunteer Army commander, arrived in the Volunteer Army in July, was released. Already on December 27, on the same day, January 10, at the end of January, at that time and.
At the end of March, having recovered from the disease, General Wrangel arrived in Yekaterinodar and found that the main volunteer regiments were reduced to the building of General Mayevsky and were conducting heavy battles in the coal pool. In this regard, on April 4, General Denikin did not agree with this proposal of General Wrangel, because as the main direction for the offensive he considered the shortest line for Moscow through Kharkov - Eagle - Tula.
It was from this time that serious disagreements began between General Wrangel and General Denikin, who later turned into a painful conflict. Initially, General Wrangel abandoned this proposal, but when the offensive of the Red Army began from the Grand Duke to the trade, threatening the rear of the Volunteer Army, General Wrangel agreed to the persistent request of Generals Denikin and Romanovsky to accept the command of a group of troops, compiled mainly from the cavalry corps, to reflect the offensive of the Red Army under the command of Egorov.
After the battle under the Grand Duke, General Wrangel remained commander of the Caucasian Army, which now included mainly the Kuban units. According to this directive, General Wrangel was invited to go to the front of Saratov - Balashov and then step on Moscow through Nizhny Novgorod and Vladimir. General Wrangel considered the Moscow Directive to the “death sentence of the armies of the South of Russia”.
There was no maneuver in it and the defeat of strength was allowed. That is, at the end of June, however, all these proposals were ignored, and only when the complete failure of the Majest General and the catastrophic position was discovered at the Front of the Volunteer Army, General Wrangel on November 26, due to the deep breakthrough of the cavalry of the Budyonny and the absence of a sufficient number of combat-ready cities in the Volunteer Army, General Wrangel in the report of December 11, General Denikin.
I did not agree with this, since he believed that the Volunteer Army should in no case come off from the Don army. On the same day, December 11, a meeting of the Commander -in -Chief of the All -Union Communist Party of the Don Army General Sidorin and the commander of the Volunteer Army General Wrangel took place in Rostov. At this meeting, the Commander -in -Chief announced his decision to reduce the Volunteer Army to a separate volunteer corps and operationally subordinate it to General Sidorin's commander of the Don Army.
General Vran-Gel was entrusted with the formation of new Cossack corps in the Kuban and Terek. However, soon an order came to appoint General Lukomsky General Governor of the Novorossiysk Region. Once out of work, General Wrangel settled in the Crimea. Negotiations on this issue with the head of the commander in chief dragged on. Many public figures, as well as General Lukomsky and commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Nenyukov and his chief of staff, Rear Admiral Bubnov, offered to appoint General Wrangel to the place of the compromised Odessa evacuation of General Shilling.
Having not received a response, General Wrangel on January 27, at the end of February on the morning of March 22, at a military council gathered on March 22, General Wrangel was unanimously elected new commander -in -chief of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia. On the same day, General Denikin gave an order to his appointment.
Having accepted the command, General Wrangel first of all began to restore discipline and strengthen the moral state of the troops. By April 28, the Government of the South of Russia created by him made a declaration on the national issue and proposed to determine the form of government in Russia with a “free will” within the framework of a wide federation. Along with this, the government began to carry out a number of reforms; In particular, the “Law on the Earth”, the “Law on Volost Zemstvos”, etc.
was adopted. Having received the recognition of De Facto from France, General Wrangel began organizing the 3rd Russian Army in the Crimea, was divided into two armies in Poland. Having carried out a number of successful operations in North Tavria, General Wrangel collided in the summer with a significant increase in the forces of the Red Army, especially after the Riga truce with Poland.
The unsuccessful outcome of General Ulaya’s assault on the Kuban in August of the cityThe evacuation of the army and all those who wish from Crimea in November in Constantinople, being without funds, General Wrangel sought to prevent the dispersal of the army, which was in the camps in Gallipoli and on the island of Lemnos. He managed to organize the move of military units to Bulgaria and to the Kingdom of CHS, where they were accepted.
In an effort to preserve the personnel of the Russian army abroad in new, emigrant, conditions, General Wrangel gave on September 1 was buried in Belgrade in the Russian church of St. The pen of General Wrangel belongs: notes: in 2 hours. Materials collected and developed by Baron by P. Wrangel, Duke of Leichtenbergecim and the brightest prince A. Ed. V, VI.
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