Nikolai Nebogatov
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Nikolai Ivanovich Nebogatov | |
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Russian SFSR | |
| Allegiance |  Russian Empire |
| Service/ |  Imperial Russian Navy |
| Years of service | 1869–1905 |
| Rank | Rear admiral |
| Commands held | 3rd Pacific Squadron |
| Battles/wars | Russo-Japanese War |
Nikolai Ivanovich Nebogatov (Russian: Николай Иванович Небогатов; occasionally transliterated as Nebogatoff; April 20, 1849 – August 4, 1922) was a rear admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, noted for his role in the final stages of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905.
Biography
Nebogatov was born into the family of a career naval officer in the vicinity of
Russian Baltic Fleet
, and was promoted to rear admiral in 1901.
During the
Dmitry von Fölkersam on May 24, an event which effectively made Nebogatov second-in-command of the fleet after Rozhestvensky.[1]
During the first day of the
Vasili Fersen of the cruiser Izumrud
disobeyed orders and escaped through the Japanese lines. The captain of the battleship Admiral Ushakov, having become lost during the night, was unaware of the orders to surrender, and was sunk the next morning, out-gunned and outnumbered, by the Japanese fleet.
Nebogatov was taken as a
Tsar Nicholas. He was released from the prison fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul
in May 1909, when he was pardoned on the occasion of the tsar's birthday.
Nebogatov subsequently moved to Moscow, where he died in 1922. He was married to Nadezhda Petrova, with whom he had two daughters and one son.
References
In English
- Connaughton, R. M. (1988). The War of the Rising Sun and the Tumbling Bear—A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904–5, London, ISBN 0-415-00906-5.
- Jukes, Geoffry. The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905. Osprey Essential Histories. (2002). ISBN 978-1-84176-446-7.
- ISBN 0-8108-4927-5.
- Warner, Denis & Peggy. The Tide at Sunrise, A History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905. (1975). ISBN 0-7146-5256-3.
- Bio at Russojapanesewar.com
- Russian Biographical Dictionary, [1]
- Чегодаев-Саконский А. П. На «Алмазе». От Либавы через Цусиму – во Владивосток
- (Фото)
- Материалы судебного дела о сдаче эскадры Небогатова
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