Pavel Sytin
Pavel Pavlovich Sytin | |
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Born | St. George Sword | 30 July 1870
Pavel Pavlovich Sytin (Russian: Павел Павлович Сытин) (30 July [O.S. 18 July] 1870 Skopin – 22 August 1938 Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet military leader who reached the rank of major general in the Imperial Russian Army. He fought in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I.
Biography
Early life
Sytin was born in
Imperial Russian Army
Upon graduation from the Kiev Cadet School in 1892, Sytin began his Imperial Russian Army career. He graduated from the Nikolayev Academy of the General Staff in 1899 in the first category. He took part in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. From 1908 to 1909 he was the head of the combat department of the headquarters of the Brest-Litoŭsk Fortress. In 1909, he became an instructor at a military school, then became a senior adjutant at the headquarters of the Kronstadt Fortress.
During World War I, Sytin commanded an artillery battery, a brigade, and the 37th Infantry Division. He was promoted to major general on 23 January 1917.
The
Red Army
The Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution on 7 November 1917, beginning the Russian Civil War. Sytin sided with the Bolsheviks. General Anton Denikin, an opponent of the Bolsheviks, White movement leader, and a commander of White Army forces, mentioned him as follows:
Many schemers came with plans to save Russia. I had [as my subordinate in the Imperial Russian Army], by the way, the current Bolshevik “commander-in-chief,” then a general, Pavel Sytin. He proposed the following measure to strengthen the front: to declare that land — of landowners, the state, the church — be given free of charge to the peasants, but exclusively to those who fight on the front. “I mentioned,” said Sytin, “this proposal to Kaledin [i.e., General Alexey Kaledin], but he grabbed his head [and said] 'What you preach, it's pure demagogy!'...” Sytin left without land and without ... [command of] a division. He later easily reconciled with the Bolshevik theory of communist land use.[1]
In December 1917 Sytin was elected as the commander of the
Sytin was recalled from the front and appointed head of the administrative affairs department of the
Later life
After he retired, Sytin became a researcher at the Central State Archive of the Red Army. During the
Awards and honors
- Order of Saint Anna Fourth Class with inscription "For Courage" (1904)
- Order of Saint Stanislaus Third Class with Swords and Bow (1904)
- Order of Saint Anna Third Class with Swords and Bow (1904)
- Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov) Second Class with Swords (1905)
- Order of Saint Anna Second Class with Swords (1905)
- Order of Saint Vladimir Fourth Class with Swords and Bow (1906)
- Order of Saint Vladimir Third Class with Swords (11 February 1915)
- St. George Sword (24 February 1915)[2]
- The Highest Favor "for distinction in action against the enemy" (5 April 1915)[3]
References
Footnotes
- ISBN 5-8112-1889-3. (in Russian)
- Николай II. (1915). "Павлу Сытину // Утверждается пожалование… Георгиевского оружия // Февраля 23 дня 1915 года, приказ". Высочайшие приказы о чинах военных. 1915, 1 января — 28 февраля. СПб. p. 19.) (in Russian)
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Bibliography
- "Списки офицерам по старшинству. Составлен по 1-е марта 1914 г". СПб.: Военная типография императрицы Екатерины Великой. 1914. p. 1062. (in Russian)
External links
- Ганин А. В. От военпреда товарища Сытина. Советская военная разведка в Грузии о Белом Крыме // Родина. 2014. No. 5. pp. 132–135 (in Russian)
- Ганин А. В. Советская военная разведка в Грузии в 1920—1921 годах. Миссия Павла Сытина // Государственное управление. Электронный вестник. 2014. No. 43. Апрель. pp. 207–251 (in Russian)
- "Pavel Sytin". «Russian army in a Great war» project. (in Russian)
- Photograph of Pavel Sytin on Russian Wikipedia