Boris Shteifon
Boris Aleksandrovich Shteifon | |
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Russian Corps | |
| Years of service | 1902–1945 |
| Rank |  Lieutenant general |
| Battles/wars | Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War World War II |
Boris Aleksandrovich Shteifon (
.Biography
Boris Shteifon was born in 1881 in
Imperial Nicholas Military Academy with the rank of captain. He was subsequently assigned to serve in Russian Turkestan
, and was a staff officer of the 2nd Turkistan Army Corps in 1914.
With the start of
Order of St. Anne and Order of St. George
for conducting intelligence operations. In January 1917 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 161 Infantry Division and then in August of that year, the head of the Finnish 3rd Infantry Division. In 1917 he was promoted to colonel.
In the wake of the
Ekaterinodar. He became Chief of Staff of the 3rd Infantry Division of the Volunteer Army in April 1919, and commander of the 13th Infantry Regiment from July. He was active in operations throughout the Ukraine and parts of Poland and Romania
through the end of the year. In January 1920 Shteifon was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general.
However, with the growing collapse of the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. Living in Belgrade
, he actively participated in the Officers' Union, but was removed by General Wrangel for insubordination. During the 1920s and 1930s, Shteifon published a series of military tactical and historical works, and became a professor of military sciences.
After occupation of the
USSR and later in the war also by Britain; in 1944 the Corps was actively engaged in fighting against Tito's partisans; and finally, from September 1944, after the previously Germany-allied Romania and Bulgaria switched sides and regular units of the Red Army advanced into the Western Balkans, the Corps also fought against the regular Soviet troops in Serbia and later in what is now Croatia.[2]
He died in Zagreb's Esplanade hotel on 30 April 1945.[3] Some sources suggest that he may have committed suicide.[4][5]
He was buried in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at a German military cemetery (block VIII, row 6, grave 16).
Notes
- ^ Vertepov 1963, p. 14–15.
- ^ Vertepov 1963, p. 19–20, 24.
- ^ Vertepov 1963, p. 27, 348–349.
- ^ Puškadija-Ribkin 2006, p. 252.
- ^ А.А. фон Лампе (Gen Alexei Alexandrovitch von Lampe). «Пути верных». Париж. 1960, p. 202.
References
- Books
- Puškadija-Ribkin, Tatjana (2006). Emigranti iz Rusije u znanstvenom i kulturnom životu Zagreba. ISBN 953-7130-36-3.
- Vertepov, Dmitriĭ Petrovich (1963). Русский Корпус на Балканах во время II Великой Войны 1941–1945 г.г. [Russian Corps in the Balkans at the Time of the Second Great War] (PDF) (in Russian). OCLC 976722812.
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