Brief biography Yudenich

Yudenich Nikolai Nikolaevich General Yudenich, a brief biography, the invincible general of the First World War and the Commander-in-Chief of the Anti-Bolshevik North-Western Front was born on July 18 in Moscow in a family of a civil official, whose kind came from the hereditary nobles of the Minsk province. After the successful graduation of the Moscow city gymnasium, Yudenich enters the Sumye Institute, but dreaming of a military career, a year later he is transferred to the Alexander Military School, from which he was released in the rank of non-commissioned officer.

The Lithuanian regiment located in Warsaw was seconded to the Life Guards. Since years, he studied at the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff, after its completion he was promoted to headquarters. Since the year, Yudenich is as a senior adjutant to the headquarters of the Turkestan military district. In the same year he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

In the year he was appointed commander of the Rifle Regiment. With the beginning of the Russo-Japanese war, Yudenich refused the proposed rear position of the general at the headquarters of the Turkestan military district and went with his regiment to the front. Participating in the battles as part of the 2nd Manchu army, he showed outstanding command skills. He was injured during the battle of Mukden.

At the end of the war, he was awarded the orders of St. Vladimir of the 3rd degree with the swords and the Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree with swords and promoted to Major General with the appointment of the commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade. Since the year, Yudenich has been serving in the Caucasus as a quartermeistra general, and later the chief of staff of the Caucasian Military District.

Yudenich N., with the beginning of hostilities on the Caucasian Front of the First World War, was appointed chief of staff by the chief of staff of the Caucasian Army. From the very first days of the war, Yudenich’s military talent appeared. Using a significant numerical advantage, the Turks under the command of Enver Pasha attacked the location of the Russian troops in the Sarykamysh area.

In an almost hopeless situation, being surrounded by the Russians under the leadership of Yudenich not only out of a critical situation, but also won a brilliant victory. For this, in January of the year, he was awarded the Order of St. George of the 4th degree, made to the rank of general from infantry and appointed commander of a separate Caucasian army.

The next Order of St. George of the 3rd degree, together with the Order of the White Eagle with swords, he received in June for the Ethratic operation planned by him, as a result of which the 3rd Turkish army Abdul Kerim Pasha was defeated. At the beginning, the Caucasian army, pursuing the enemy, entered the considered impregnable fortress Erzurum. Yudenich insisted on the storm and five days later Erzerum Pal.

For this feat, he was granted the Order of St. George of the 2nd degree, he was the last gentleman of this order awarded in the Russian Empire.

In April, the meal was captured, and by summer, Russian troops controlled almost all of Western Armenia. In the history of the First World War, General Yudenich was the only commander who did not know his defeats and for his military talent, shortly before the overthrow of the monarchy, he received a rare honorary Order of Alexander Nevsky with swords. Yudenich during the Civil War as a convinced monarchist, he hostilely perceived the February revolution.

Since that time, he lives in Petrograd as a private person, and after the October Revolution, he switches to an illegal position. In November, he went to Finland under other people's documents. There, in Helsingfors, the organization of Russian emigrants in January, Yudenich, was proclaimed the leader of the White movement in the north-west of Russia with dictatorial powers.

In July, on the territory of Latvia and Estonia, based on scattered anti-Bolshevik formations, the North-Western Army was formed. In September, having enlisted the support of Great Britain and Estonia, the SZA, with the support of two Estonian divisions, began an attack on Petrograd. Already in the middle of October, the battles went to his outskirts, but the arrivals of reinforcements of the Red Army, led by Trotsky, threw Yudenich from the city and themselves went on the offensive.

Due to the betrayal of the Allies, Yudenich was defeated, Estonia concluded peace with the Bolsheviks, and the SZA was interned and disarmed on its territory. There he settled in Nice, where he lived until his death on October 5, without participating in political life. As the owner of all three degrees of the Order of St. George, the name Yudenich is knocked out in gold on the Whitera room board of the St.

George Hall in the Moscow Kremlin.