Biography of Kornilov

In the year he was enrolled in the Omsk Cadet Corps.

After its excellent graduation, he studies at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, and enters the Academy of the General Staff in the year. Choosing a Turkestan military district, Kornilov becomes a military intelligence officer. He, as an officer of the General Staff, was entrusted with a mission on the Central Asian borders of Russia. For five years, from the city, the reviews of the countries of the Middle East prepared by him for the General Staff became the basis for his book "Kashgar and East Turkestan" published in the year.

In the rank of headquarters officer of the 1st Infantry Brigade, Kornilov participates in the Russian-Japanese war and takes part in the battle of Mukden, unsuccessful for the Russian army. According to the results of the war, he received the title of Colonel and the Order of St. George 4th degree. In the year, he goes to diplomatic work and leaves for four years in China as a military attache.

For his activities, upon his return, he received the Order of St. Anna of the 2nd degree. Since the year, Kornilov has been in the army service. When the First World War began, he was appointed commander of the infantry division as part of the 8th Army of General Brusilov. During the battles, he showed unprecedented courage, carrying a soldier behind him. During the impudent night sortie, the detachment, led by Kornilov, captured the Austrian General Raft.

In April, he was surrounded by seven soldiers, after a bayonet battle he was captured. In July, he managed to escape and cross the front line. For the heroism shown, the Order of St. George of the 3rd degree was personally handed to him by the emperor. In September, Kornilov met the February revolution with great enthusiasm. In May, he was appointed commander of the 8th Army, July 8-the commander of the South-Western Front.

And July 19 - the supreme commander in chief. General Kornilov during the Civil War, in order to “restore order”, Kornilov in August headed an armed rebellion against the Provisional Government, which ended in the arrest of Kornilov. Two months with his associates, among whom Denikin was in prison in Bykhov. There, Kornilov, Kaledin and Alekseev begin the formation of the Volunteer Army, and already in February, its units appear in the first Kuban or “ice” campaign.

Its goal was to connect with the detachments of the white movement in the Kuban. The struggle with the Bolsheviks was complicated by the reluctance of the Don Cossacks to help volunteers, as well as the armed resistance of the Kuban. Approaching the Kuban capital, despite the numerically superior units of the Red Army, Kornilov led the troops to storm Yekaterinodar, but was mortally wounded by a random shell.

After the retreat of the Volunteer Army from the suburbs, the Bolsheviks dug up and burned his body. Exactly 95 years later, a monument was erected in the form of a three -meter bronze figure of the general with an overcoat thrown over his shoulders on April 13 in Krasnodar.