Ivan Romanovsky

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Ivan Romanovsky
First World War
Russian Civil War
AwardsOrder of St. George

Ivan Pavlovich Romanovsky (

counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War. Romanovsky served as chief of staff of the Volunteer Army and later the Armed Forces of South Russia
.

Biography

Romanovsky was born into a military family in Luhansk. He graduated from the Konstantinovsky Artillery School in 1897 and the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff, Russia's senior staff college, in 1903. He was assigned to the Life Grenadier Guards of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division. He participated in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War, serving on the headquarters staff of the 18th Army Corps until 1906, when he was transferred to the Turkestan Military District. In 1909 he was assigned to the Russian General Staff.[1]

Upon the Russian entry into

Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Government's armed forces. From July to September 1917 he served as Chief of the General Directorate of the General Staff.[1]

He was a participant in the 1917 Kornilov affair, the attempted military coup d'état led by Kornilov against the Russian Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet. Kornilov and his co-conspirators, including Romanovsky, were arrested in September and imprisoned in Bykhov (today Bykhaw in Belarus).[2] After the October Revolution, however, Romanovsky escaped the prison with Kornilov and traveled to the Rostov region to seek allies among the anti-Bolshevik Don Cossacks. He masqueraded as an ensign during his travels to escape detection by Soviet authorities.[3]

Romanovsky joined the

Tsaritsyn.[5] He was blamed for the defeats the Volunteer Army subsequently suffered as well as the death of Mikhail Drozdovsky, one of his rivals. In March 1920 the Volunteer Army evacuated from Novorossiysk to the Crimea. On March 16, 1920, after arriving in Theodosia, Romanovsky resigned as chief of staff.[6]

On March 22, 1920, after the appointment of

freemason, and the chief architect of all the failures of the White cause.[8]

See also

Citations

  1. ^ a b c [1]; on Chronos World History (in Russian)
  2. ^ Smele, p. 34
  3. ^ Figes, p. 558
  4. ^ Figes, p. 568
  5. ^ Luckett, p. 277
  6. ^ Luckett, p. 354
  7. ^ Mawdsley, p. 224
  8. ^ Smele, p. 325

References

  • "Романовский Иван Павлович" [Romanovsky, Ivan Pavlovich]. Chronos World History Project (in Russian). Chronos World History Project. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  • Figes, Orlando (1996). A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924. New York: Penguin Books.
    ISBN 0-14-024364-X
    .
  • Luckett, Richard (1971). The White Generals: An Account of the White Movement and the Russian Civil War. London: Longman.
    ISBN 0-582-12777-7
    .
  • Mawedsley, Evan (2005). The Russian Civil War. New York: Pegasus Books.
    ISBN 978-1-60598-014-0
    .
  • Smele, Jonathan (2015). The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World. New York: Oxford University Press.
    ISBN 9780190233044
    .

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