51st Infantry Regiment (Russian Empire)
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| 51st Lithuanian Infantry Regiment | |
|---|---|
| (1903 – 1913) | |
| Anniversaries | December 6 (Regiment holiday) |
The 51st Lithuanian Infantry Regiment (
Formation
The regiment was formed as the
On 11 January 1811, from the 12 companies of the Sveaborg Garrison Regiment, the three-battalion Lithuanian Musketeer Regiment was formed, named on February 22, 1811 the Lithuanian Infantry Regiment.
History
Napoleonic Wars
On 6 November 1811, the regiment, with the Nevsky Infantry Regiment, formed the 2nd Brigade of the 21st Infantry Division.
In 1812, during the French invasion of Russia, the regiment first fought on 7 October 1812 near Polotsk. the regiment then partook in the battles at Chashniki, Borisov and Studyanka.
Having crossed the Vistula in 1813, the Lithuanian regiment was part of the corps besieging Danzig, and then were moved to Poznań. In the detachment of General Ferdinand von Wintzingerode, the regiment fought in the battle of Leipzig and on 6 January 1814 crossed the Rhine near Düsseldorf. The Lithuanian regiment fought in the battles of Craonne, Laon and Parisduring the Campaign in north-east France in 1814.
On 4 July 1817, the Lithuanian regiment was assigned to the
November Uprising
At the beginning of November Uprising in 1830, the regiment became part of the active army and participated in the battles at Dobre, Wawer and Olszynka Grochowska. On 14 February 1831, the 3rd battalion was detached to form the 58th Infantry Regiment, and was replaced by the 3rd battalion of Field Marshal Count von der Saken's Infantry Regiment at the end of the war.
On 19 March 1831, the 1st and 2nd battalions, being in the vanguard of Adjutant General
Fighting in the Caucasus
On 28 January 1833, when the entire infantry of the Imperial Russian Army was reorganized, the regiment, with the addition of the 2nd Battalion of the 48th Jaeger Regiment, was named Lithuanian Jaeger and was assigned four battalions.
In 1841, the 2nd battalion was sent to the
On 8 January 1844, three battalions set out for the Caucasus and were assigned to guard the Georgian Military Road. In the same year, the 1st battalion took part in several expeditions in Little Chechnya to punish the rebellious Karabuzakhs and skirmished many times with the mountaineers.
On 27 February 1845, a battalion of the Uglitsky Jaeger Regiment was attached to the regiment, which made up its 5th battalion. In 1845, the 1st battalion was assigned to the Chechen detachment and, participating in the Dargin campaign, distinguished itself in the Ichkerin battle, when capturing the ruins near Gerzel-aul. For the Dargin campaign, the 1st battalion received a new banner on March 18, 1846 with the inscription "For the campaign to Andi in June and the capture of Dargo on July 6, 1845".
On 16 December 1845, the 2nd and 3rd battalions were allocated to form the Kuban Jaeger Regiment, so the Lithuanian Regiment had four battalions.
Hungarian Revolution of 1848
On 10 May 1849, during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the regiment campaigned in Transylvania and participated in a battle in the Oytuz gorge on July 11.
Crimean War
In 1853, the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th reserve battalions were formed with the regiment.
Appointed to reinforce the Caucasian troops, the regiment sailed on September 17, 1853 to the shores of the Black Sea coast and, having landed in
On 17 April 1856, after the abolition of the Jaeger regiments, the Lithuanian regiment was renamed an infantry regiment. The same year, the reserve battalions were also abolished and rifle companies were formed in four active battalions.
For the next three years, the regiment took part in operations against the mountaineers of the Western Caucasus and was on several expeditions beyond the Kuban and in the Labinsky District. On 22 July 1859, the Lithuanian Infantry Regiment left the Caucasus.
1860s & 1870s
On 6 April 1863, a regiment was formed from the Lithuanian Reserve Regiment's 4th battalion and reserve battalions. It was named the Putivl Infantry Regiment on 13 August 1863 . On 25 March 1864, №51 was added to the regiment's name.
In the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), the regiment guarded Crimea's coasts. On 3 March 1877, the Lithuanian Regiment, together with the 52nd Vilnius Infantry Regiment, was in the Army of the South's 13th Division's 2nd Brigade.[4] The two regiments were still brigaded in the 1880s.[5]
On 14 May 1879, the 4th battalion was formed from three rifle companies and the newly formed 16th company. In the same year, the regiment was granted the military step of the Lithuanian Life Guards Regiment.
20th century
On 30 July 1904, the Grand Duke Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia was appointed regimental chief, and the Lithuanian regiment was ordered to be called the 51st Lithuanian Infantry Regiment of His Imperial Highness the Heir to the Tsarevich.
World War I
From 1914 to 8 December 1916, The Lithuanian regiment was part of the Southwestern Front.[6] From then on, it was on the Romanian Front.[6]
Russian Civil War
After 1918, many of the Lithuanian regiment's officers and even soldiers could not come to terms with the
Regimental insignia
- Regimental St. George's banner with the inscription "For the campaign in Andi in June and the capture of Dargo on July 6, 1845 and for the difference in the battle against the Turks across the river. Cholokom June 4, 1854" and "1809-1909" with the Alexander's anniversary ribbon.
- Headwear insignia for lower ranks with the inscription "For Sevastopol from 13 September 1854 to 27 August 1855".
Regimental chiefs
- 01/17/1811 - 09/01/1814 - Colonel (from 01/11/1814 - Major General) Baron Fedor Fedorovich Rosen.
- 07/30/1904 - XX.XX.1918 - the heir to the Tsarevich, Grand Duke Alexei Nikolaevich.
Regiment's commanders
- 10/15/1811 - 03/17/1818 - Major (from 01/11/1814 Lieutenant Colonel) Boris Lukich Sergeyev
- 03/17/1818 - 02/28/1829 - lieutenant colonel (from 04/10/1820 Colonel) Mikhail Fedorovich Nikitin
- 04/01/1829 - 04/11/1831 - Colonel Mikhail Kurosh
- 06/12/1851 - 1855/1856 - Colonel Prince Lev Gagarin
- 02/17/1856 - 1859/1860 - Colonel Nikolai Chikhachev
- 1859/1860 - хх.хх. 1868/1869 - Colonel Pyotr Shafirov[8]
- 08/02/1869 - 28/11/1874 - Colonel Pyotr Artsybashev[8]
- 11/30/1874 - 12/17/1878 - Colonel Alexander Zashchuk
- xx.12.1878 - xx.01.1886 - Colonel Alexander Kalinin
- 01/19/1886 - 11/03/1887 - Colonel Konstantin Tserpitsky
- 11.11.1887 - 29.10.1892 - Colonel Giorgi Kazbegi
- 11/23/1892 - 07/16/1894 - Colonel Nikolai Grotenfeld
- 08/02/1894 - 04/17/1898 - Colonel Alexander Myagkov
- 06/02/1898 - 04/04/1901 - Colonel Ivan Kholodovsky
- 05/22/1901 - 02/06/1905 - Colonel Mikhail Nikulin
- 02.24.1905 - 03.24.1910 - Colonel Dmitry Cherepakhin-Ivaschenko
- 03.24.1910 - 01.03.1915 - Colonel Gavriil Alexandrovich Likhachev
- 01.24.1915 - 04.29.1915 - Colonel Alexey Tkachenko
- 04/29/1915 - 07/29/1915 - Colonel Vladimir Ivanovich Vadzinsky
- 08.24.1915 - 05.28.1916 - Colonel Ivan Tarbeev
- 05/31/1916 - 10/23/1916 - Colonel Mikhail Stakhov
- 12/14/1916 - 04/24/1917 - Colonel Konstantin Lisitsyn
- 05/27/1917 - xx.xx.xxxx - Colonel Bronislav-Evgeniy Pogorzhelsky
References
- ISBN 978-5-04-309444-5.
- ^ Ruzas, Vincas (13 July 2010). "VILNIAUS KARO MOKYKLOS (1864-1917) ŽENKLAI". www.museums.lt (in Lithuanian). Archived from the original on 2005-05-15. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ^ a b Pavlyuk 1909.
- ISBN 978-1-910294-15-4.
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 25.
- ^ a b antologifo 2018.
- ^ a b c Chennyk 2014.
- ^ a b "Литовский 51-й пехотный полк @ SurnameIndex.Info". www.surnameindex.info (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2019-07-24. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
Sources
- Pavlyuk, K. K. (1909). История 51-го пехотного Литовского ... полка [History of the 51st Lithuanian infantry regiment] (in Russian). Vol. 1, 2. Odessa. Archived from the original on 25 February 2016.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Gizetti, A.L. (1896). Хроника Кавказских войск [Chronicle of the Caucasian Troops] (in Russian). Tbilisi.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Gabaev, G.S. (1912). Роспись русским полкам 1812 года (in Russian). Kyiv.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Novitsky, Vasily Fedorovich. Военная энциклопедия [Military encyclopedia] (in Russian).
- Chennyk, S. (2014). 51-й пехотный Литовский полк – на службе пяти императорам [51st Lithuanian Infantry Regiment - in the service of five emperors]. mil.sevhome.ru (in Russian).
- antologifo (2018). Историческая справка по 51-му пехотному Литовскому полку [Historical information on the 51st Lithuanian Infantry Regiment]. www.antologifo.narod.ru. Archived from the original on 28 January 2019.