April 13, 1918
В Ekaterinodar (now Krasnodar) a general died when a grenade hit his room Lavr KornilovFrom July to August 1917 – Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army.
I, General Kornilov, the son of a Cossack peasant, declare to everyone that I personally need nothing but the preservation of Great Russia.
Born in 1870 Ust-KamenogorskHe had Kalmyk ancestry, which explains his oriental features. He studied at the Omsk Cadet Corps.
Modest, frank, truthful <> Serious. Obedient and strictly responsible (from the final assessment)
He graduated from an artillery school and the General Staff Academy. He spoke German, French, English, Persian, Chinese, Kazakh, Mongolian, Kalmyk, and Urdu. He served in Turkestan as an intelligence officer and explorer.
In the Russo-Japanese War, his brigade covered the retreat from MukdenHe returned from the front as a colonel. He served as a military agent in China. He sent reports to the General Staff describing maneuvers in Manchuria, police and telegraph systems, and so on.
During the First World War, he commanded the "steel" 48th Infantry Division. General Brusilov He wrote that Kornilov did not spare people, but the soldiers loved him: "I personally was brave and rushed forward headlong."
He was captured by the Austrians. He escaped. He returned to the front. During the February Revolution, he commanded the Petrograd Military District. He was the one who arrested the Empress. He considered that day the hardest in his life.
In the summer of 1917, he became Supreme Commander-in-Chief. To strengthen discipline in the army, he demanded the reinstatement of the death penalty.
After an unsuccessful attempt to end the anarchy and take power in the capital, he was sent Kerensky to prison.
Soon the Bolshevik coup took place, Kerensky fled, and Kornilov was released from prison by the general Dukhonin (for this he was beaten to death by revolutionary soldiers).
He co-organized the White Army on the Don. He fought brutally. In response to Bolshevik atrocities, he ordered that no prisoners be taken.
He died from an enemy grenade. The Bolsheviks dug up his body the day after the funeral and mocked him for a long time.
The wife died of grief and was buried near the place where her husband was killed.