Dueling story in 1st life-guards Artillery Brigade (strokes to biography of prominent artillerist L. N. Gobyato) Cover Image

Дуэльная история в 1-й лейб-гвардии артиллерийской бригаде (штрихи к биографии выдающегося артиллериста Л. Н. Гобято)
Dueling story in 1st life-guards Artillery Brigade (strokes to biography of prominent artillerist L. N. Gobyato)

Author(s): Alexey Ivanovich Alexeev
Subject(s): Military history, Russian Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Издательство Исторического факультета СПбГУ
Keywords: History of the Life Guards 1st Artillery Brigade; the conflicts among the Guards officers; graduates of the relationship with the Academy of the General Staff colleagues; the officers’ courts of honor

Summary/Abstract: In the reign of Nicholas II, there was a novelty in the Russian army –allowed duels. Conflict situations within the corps of Guards officers were often due to the contradictions between the graduates of the Academy of General Staff officers and the officer corps. Diary entries of V. S. Savonko for 1903–1904 are able to trace the conflict situations, which should have been completed duel among Guard officers. One of dueling stories associated with the name of the outstanding artillery officer, practitioner and theorist, the constructor who has made a significant contribution to the development of Russian artillery, mortar inventor, a hero of the Russian-Japanese and World War I Leonid Nikolaevich Gobyato.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 40-57
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Russian