Atamans are a brief biography

Krasnov Petr Nikolaevich Ataman Krasnov - a brief biography Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov, a fierce enemy of Bolshevism and a talented writer belonged to a very famous Cossack noble family. He was born on September 10 in St. Petersburg, where he entered the 1st St. Petersburg gymnasium in the year.

But dreaming of a career of a military man, he transferred to the Alexander Cadet Corps, which graduated from a non-commissioned officer, was enrolled in the first military Pavlovsk school. In the year, Krasnov was released in the Life Guard of the Ataman Regiment, four years later increased to the centurion. Then his formation began as a writer and journalist.

In the year he was appointed to the Russian diplomatic mission in Ethiopia, for participating in it he was awarded the Order of Stanislav of the 2nd degree, the officer cross of the Ethiopian star of the 3rd degree and the French Order of the Legion of Honor. About his adventures in Africa wrote the book “Cossacks in Africa: the diary of the head of the escort of the Russian Imperial Mission in Abyssenia in the GG.

During the war with Japan, Krasnov is a military correspondent. For participation in hostilities, he received the Order of St. Anna of the 4th degree and St. Vladimir 4th degree with swords and bow. In the year he rose to the rank of colonel, along with his 1st Siberian regiment stood on the Chinese border. From the year, he commands the Donskoy regiment on the border with Austria-Hungary, with whom he met the First World War.

In the very first days of the war for military merits, he was awarded to St. George's weapons. Since November, Krasnov was in the rank of Major General, and since May he has been commanding the Caucasian native horse division. He was awarded the Order of St. George of the 4th degree. Since September, Krasnov commands the 2nd Cossack Cossack division, takes part in the Brusilovsky breakthrough.

During the February Revolution, he did not take part in politics. During the October Revolution, he was the only one of the military leaders who tried to suppress the rebellion. But due to the small number and decomposition by the Bolshevik agitators of the personnel of its corps, the attempt failed. Krasnov was arrested by the Bolsheviks, but soon escaped and went to the Don.

Krasnov P. Don was proclaimed an independent state oriented towards Germany, so Krasnov came into conflict with Denikin, who was guided by the Entente. However, after the surrender of Germany, he agreed to unite with the Volunteer Army. In February, after the defeats of the Red Army suffered from the Red Army, Krasnov resigned and went on exile in Germany, where he continued the struggle against the Bolsheviks.

With the beginning of the Soviet-German war, Krasnov addressed the Cossacks with an appeal to support Hitler. And in the year he offered the German command assistance in the creation of Cossack units as part of the Wehrmacht. In September, Krasnov headed the Main Directorate of the Cossack Forces in Germany and participated in the formation of a Cossack former - the Cossack camp.

When the Germans retreat from the Don, thousands of Cossacks with families as part of the Cossack corps went west with them. In the year, the corps participated in the suppression of the Warsaw uprising, later he was transferred to Italy to fight the partisans. He left behind more than forty books, mainly a historical nature. In the post -Soviet era, the monarchical and Cossack organizations made attempts to rehabilitate Krasnov, but in the year the military prosecutor's office of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided that he was convicted reasonably and were not subject to rehabilitation.

On the territory of the temple of all saints in Moscow, the White Obelisk “Leaders of the White Movement and Cossack Atamans” was installed in the year, in which the surname Krasnov was knocked out in gold letters along with other participants in the anti -Bolshevik struggle. In the same year, in August, a memorial complex “Don Cossacks in the fight against the Bolsheviks” was installed on a private courtyard in the village of Elanskaya Rostov Region.

It includes a museum building, five crosses made of whole gray marble and a four -meter bronze figure of Krasnov, which holds a mace in his right hand. On the basis of the monument-bas-reliefs of the Ataman-Rostniki in the fight.