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26th Army Corps (Russian Empire)
The 26th Army Corps was an Army corps in the Imperial Russian Army. Part of *1st Army (Russian Empire), 1st Army: 1914 *8th Army (Russian Empire), 8th Army: 1914 - 1915 *Russian Special Army (World War I), Russian Special Army: 1915 *9th Army (Russian Empire), 9th Army: 1915 Commanders *1914-1916: Aleksandr Gerngross *1916-1917: Yevgeny Miller {{Russian Empire Ground Forces Corps of the Russian Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, Romanization of Russian, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Army consisted of more than 900,000 regular soldiers and nearly 250,000 irregulars (mostly Cossacks). Precursors: Regiments of the New Order Tsar#Russia, Russian tsars before Peter the Great maintained professional hereditary musketeer corps known as ''streltsy''. These were originally raised by Ivan the Terrible; originally an effective force, they had become highly unreliable and undisciplined. In times of war the armed forces were augmented by peasants. New Order Regiments, The regiments of the new order, or regiments of the foreign order (''Полки нового строя'' or ''Полки иноземного строя'', ''Polki novovo (inozemnovo) stroya''), was the Russian term that was used to describe mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Army (Russian Empire)
The 1st Army (russian: 1-я армия, translit=1А) was an army-level command of the Russian Imperial Army created during World War I. The First Army, commanded by General Paul von Rennenkampf, invaded East Prussia at the outbreak of war in 1914 along with the Second Army commanded by General Alexander Samsonov. After declaring war on the German Empire, the Russian Empire had been able to mobilize very quickly. All Russian forces were put under the command of Grand Duke Nikolai and his Quartermaster General Yuri Danilov. The invading forces made a determined and speedy attack on East Prussia. However, the First and Second Armies were stopped by the German Eighth Army, led by Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his chief of staff, General Erich Ludendorff. The German and Russian armies met at Tannenberg, where the Second Army was encircled and suffered complete destruction. Both the First and Second Armies suffered terrible casualties in one of the most comprehensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Army (Russian Empire)
The Russian Eight Army (8-я армия, ''8А'') was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern theatre of war. Field management was established in July 1914 at the headquarters of the Kiev Military District. The unit was disbanded in the beginning of 1918. At the beginning of the war the 8th Army was composed of the VII, VIII, XII, XXIV Army Corps. Military Fronts in which the 8th Army participated * Southwestern Front (July 1914 - August 1917) * Romanian Front (August 1917 - the beginning of 1918) Commanders * 28.07.1914 – 17.03.1916 — General of Cavalry Aleksei Brusilov * 23.03.1916 – 29.04.1917 — General of Cavalry Alexey Kaledin * 29.04.1917 – 10.07.1917 — General of Infantry Lavr Kornilov * 11.07.1917 – 25.07.1917 — Lieutenant-General Vladimir Cheremisov * 30.07.1917 – 17.10.1917 — Lieutenant-General Michai Sokownin * 18.10.1917 – 21.12.1917 — Lieutenant-General Mykola Yunakiv See also * List of Russian armies in World War I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Special Army (World War I)
The Russian Special Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern Front. Field management was established in August 1916. The Army was named ''Special'' because it was thought that the name ''13th Army'' would bring bad luck. Composition At the end of 1917 the army consisted of: * 31st Army Corps * 39th Army Corps * 44th Army Corps * XLVI Corps * I Turkestan Army Corps * IV Cavalry Corps * VII Cavalry Corps Deployment * Western Front (August–September 1916) * Southwestern Front (September–November 1916) * Western Front (November 1916 – July 1917) * Southwestern Front (July 1917 – early 1918) Commanders The commanders of the Army were: * 14.08.1916 – 10.11.1916 - General of Cavalry Vasily Gurko * 10.11.1916 – 17.02.1917 - General of Infantry Pyotr Baluyev * 17.02.1917 – 31.03.1917 - General of Cavalry Vasily Gurko * 02.04.1917 – 09.07.1917 - General of Infantry Pyotr Baluyev * 12.07.1917 – 29.08.1917 - General of Cavalry Ivan E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th Army (Russian Empire)
The Russian 9th Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern theatre of war. Field management was established in August 1914. The unit fought on the Southwestern Front from August 1914 to December 1916 and then on the Romanian Front, until it was disbanded in 1918. Commanders * 9 August 1914 – 18 April 1917 — General of Infantry Platon Lechitsky * 18 April 1917 – 11 August 1917 — Lieutenant-General Gieorgij Stupin * 11 August 1917 – 9 September 1917 — Lieutenant-General Vladimir Cheremisov * 9 September 1917 – ? September 1917 — Lieutenant-General Julian Bielozor * ? September 1917 – ? November 1917 — Lieutenant-General Anatolij Kiełczewskij See also * List of Russian armies in World War I * List of Imperial Russian Army formations and units This article lists Imperial Russian Army formations and units in 1914 prior to World War I mobilisation for the Russian invasion of Prussia and the liberation Austro-Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Gerngross
Baron Alexandr Alekseyevich Gerngross (russian: Александр Алексеевич Гернгросс) (4 August 1851 – 17 March 1925) was a general of Dutch origin who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Biography Gerngross was from a Baltic German noble family of Dutch origin. He entered military service in 1868, and graduated from the Riga School of Infantry. Commissioned as an ensign in 1871, he served with the 63rd Infantry Regiment. He was promoted to second lieutenant in 1873 and to lieutenant in 1875. Serving with distinction during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) he received a field commission as brevet captain, which was formally confirmed in 1879. He rose to lieutenant colonel in 1887. He served in Russian Turkestan from 1891 to 1897, during which time he was responsible for land surveys for the Trans-Caspian Railway. He was promoted to colonel in 1894, and became commander of the Transcaspian Infantry Battalion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Miller
Eugen Ludwig Müller (russian: Евге́ний-Лю́двиг Ка́рлович Ми́ллер, tr. ; 25 September 1867 – 11 May 1939), better known as Yevgeny Miller, was a Russian general of Baltic German origin and one of the leaders of the anticommunist White Army during and after the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). After the civil war he lived in exile in France. Kidnapped by Soviet intelligence operatives in Paris in 1937, he was smuggled to the USSR and executed in Moscow in 1939. Early life Miller was a career officer born to a Baltic German aristocratic family in Dünaburg (now Daugavpils, Latvia). After he graduated from the General Staff Academy, he served with the Russian Imperial Guard. Between 1898 and 1907, he was a Russian military attaché in several European capitals, such as Rome, The Hague and Brussels. During the First World War, he headed the Moscow Military District and the 26th Army Corps and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. Civil W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
