Генерального штаба генерал-майор М. Е. Солнышкин: от храбого терского казака и "мятежника-корниловца" к добросовестному служаке в провинциальных штаба
The General Staff, Major-General M. E. Solnyshkin: from brave Terek Cossacks and “rebel-Korniloviets” to the conscientious campaigner in the provincia

Summary/Abstract: Generation of Russian citizens, to whom happened to live in the first quarter of the last century, had a chance to experience the serious social upheaval — from World War I to crush all the old European order — to the deep inner “Troubles”, poured out in a fratricidal Civil War (1917–1920). People just worn on the shoulders of officers’ epaulettes, had to contemplate not only the whole social cataclysm, but also actively participate in it. Our article is devoted to a biography of the Terek Cossack Mikhail Efimovich Solnyshkina. The record of M. Solnyshkina for 1914–1924 years safely aligned heroism during World War (1914–1917), service in the Russian “revolutionary” Army (February – October 1917), participated in the “Kornilov`s affair” in Summer 1917, participate in the “anti-Soviet” mutiny Cossack Ataman P. Krasnov in October 1917. Both of these “initiatives” have ended in complete failure. M. E. Solnyshkin did not shoot as the General Staff Lieutenant-General A. M. Crymov and not been briefly detained like Don Ataman P. N. Krasnov. In contrast, less than six months, counting from December 17, 1917, when our “genshtabist” is becoming available to the commander of the Caucasian Front, Solnyshkin was on service in the “provincial” military districts of the Red Army. And he served there “faithfully”, as well as on the “red” Southern front and in various military schools of the Red Army in the first half of the 1920s.

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