Vasily Fedorovich Novitsky

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Fedorovich and the family name is Novitsky.
Vasily Fedorovich Novitsky in 1917

Vasily Fedorovich Novitsky (Russian: Василий Фёдорович Новицкий, 30 March [

Imperial Russia. During the Russian Revolution, in 1917, he sided with the Bolsheviks. One of the main editors of "Sytin Military Encyclopedia" of 1911–1915 (common name; officially just Military Encyclopedia), in charge of the first, "special military knowledge" department. Professor (1912), Honoured Worker of Science (1928).[1]

Biography

Novitsky was a brother of Yevgeny [ru] and Fyodor [ru] Novitskys. He graduated from the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy (1889) and the General Staff Academy (1895).[1]

Russian Empire service

While Captain, in 1888, Novitsky spent four months as a guest of the

Yarkand–Kashgar route.[3]

He served as

corps headquarters. Novitsky fought in the Russo-Japanese War. From 1901 to 1904 he served as an officer of the General Staff. From 1906 to 1911, he took part in military-geographical expeditions to Mongolia, Afghanistan, India. From 1911 to 1914, he was a regimental commander, and at the same time was one of the editors-in-chief of the Military Encyclopedia (published by I. D. Sytin).[1]

During World War I, Novitsky was part of the Northern Front, responsible for fighting the Central Powers from Riga in the north down to northern Belarus.[4]

Military Encyclopedia

Novitsky was authorised for first department — special military knowledge (Russian: специальных военных знаний) — and the assistant editor was Colonel A. V. Héroys [ru]. This department covered the following areas of military affairs:

Cover of the 1st volume of "Sytin Military Encyclopedia"

Soviet Union

When the Russian Revolution destroyed Imperial Russia, Novitsky came to accept the new social and political change. In

Soviet history, he is credited by historians with having made "a notable contribution to the rise and evolution of Soviet military art."[6]

From October 1919 to 1929 he was a professor at the Military Academy of the Red Army at the Department of History of Wars and Military Art. Novitsky successfully combined his teaching activity with research work: he created works on military geography, military administration, history of the Russian–Japanese and 1st World wars.[1]

His military-geographical studies collected extensive data on physical geography, economic geography, and military geography of Mongolia and India.[1]

On the basis of archival documents and personal experience he generalised the military actions of the 2nd Manchurian Army in the battles on the Shaho River, near Mukden and in the battle of Sandepu. Contributed to the development of the 1st World War history. Novitsky's military-historical works still retain their scientific value.[1]

Works

  • Arrangement of the armed forces of Austria-Hungary (Russian: Устройство вооруженных сил Австро-Венгрии). Pt. 1. Kiev, 1898
  • Military Sketches of India (1899)
  • Cossacks, Cossack groups, Cossack military forces (1915)[7]

Read also

His namesake,

gendarmes!"[8]

But in 1902, as the head of the Kiev gendarme, Vasily Dementyevich became more menacing towards revolutionary elements. He systematically interrogated members of the group Iskra, who were emigre Socialist Revolutionaries, and for whom he was planning a great, state trial,[10] hoping that he could get a heavy sentence passed against the revolutionaries.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Новицкий Василий Федорович". www.hrono.ru. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  2. ISBN 9780199547371
    .
  3. ISBN 9781134032945
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  4. ^ Северный фронт (in Russian). Ria1914.info. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  5. ^ BMK BRZ (1911). Военная энциклопедия. Том I. А – Алжирия.
  6. ^ Voennaya mysl (2010). Military Thought. p. 139.
  7. ^ Igor Rotar (2014). "The Cossack Factor in Ukrainian War". RefWorld.org.
  8. ^ a b Free Russia. Vol. 12. Society of Friends of Russian Freedom. 1901. p. 18.
  9. ^ Peter Kropotkin (1901). "The Present Crisis in Russia". The North American Review.
  10. ISBN 9781458760227
    .
  11. ^ T͡Set͡silii͡a Samoĭlovna Zelikson-Bobrovskai͡a (1934). Twenty Years in Underground Russia: Memoirs of a Rank-and-file Bolshevik. International Publishers. p. 56.
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