Blucher biography brief
Cavalier of five orders of the Red Banner. One of the highest team ranks of the Red Army, destroyed during the repressions of the GG. Rehabilitated in March, this is a brief biography of the first Soviet marshal. On the left - the young Blucher commanded the Rifle Corps during the Civil War. Blucher is a German surname. But where does it from the simple Russian man Konstantin Pavlovich, the father of the future Red Marshal?
The thing is that in Rus' before the abolition of serfdom, the peasants had no surnames. There were nicknames in everyday life. The great -great -grandfather of Vasily Konstantinovich serfolist participated in the Patriotic War of the year. He was a brave soldier. Out of respect or jokingly, fellow soldiers called him Blucher, in honor of the Prussian Field Marshal Goebhard Leberecht von Blucher, who defeated Napoleon I under Waterloo.
According to another version, the nickname Blucher gave the Feklist his landowner Kozhin. When the retired soldier returned to the estate, the sageler, seeing the St. George Cross and other awards, exclaimed in jokingly: “The true Field Marshal Blucher! After a year, the nickname Blucher turned into a birth name. Blucher Vasily Konstantinovich - A brief biography of Vasily was born in the village of Barshchinkka, St.
George volost of the Rybinsk district of the Yaroslavl province on December 1, the Blucher had four children. Vasily among them was senior. The basics of literacy, like most children from the common people, the boy received at a parish school. Vaska happened to study only two winters.
On the third father, he said how he cut off: "The Sabbath with studies, there is nothing to rub the boots in vain." In the city, as then they said "on their own bread." In the capital, Vaska was running in the merchant shop. Having grown up a little, he went to the Berda Franco-Russian machine-building factory. The beginning of the revolutionary struggle, the first Russian revolution of the year left an indelible mark in the soul of a summer young man.
Gradually, he realizes the injustice of the system in which he was born and lives. For participation in working rallies, he was dismissed from the plant. In m Locks at the Mytishchi carriage factory. In m for participating in the rally and the call to the strike was arrested and put in jail for 3 years. In m he was released and moved to Moscow. There he worked as a locksmith in the workshops of the Moscow-Kazan Railway and even entered the annual courses at the University of Shanavsky University opened in Moscow for the money of General A.
Philanthropist, who died in the year of the year of the year, to create a higher educational institution, which any subject of the Russian Empire, a thirsty knowledge regardless of gender, religion and estate affiliation. For admission to the university, no documents were required except the passport. Mobilization prevented the study. With the outbreak of World War I in August, Vasily Blucher was mobilized.
The combat business was trained in spare units. He distinguished himself in battles, awarded two St. George Crosses, the St. George Medal and produced to the younger non-commissioned officers-the rank corresponding to the sergeant composition in the Soviet and Russian army. The young Blucher, in the front uniform of the ordinary Russian Imperial Army, was photographed against the background depicting nature.
Vasily is dressed in a newly introduced sucked jacket in an English manner with a standing collar and large patch pockets on the chest of January 8 The surgeon of the field hospital carried out five operations, extracting metal fragments. The soldier managed to save life, but the left leg became shorter than one and a half centimeters. In March, the war greatly undermined the health of the summer non-commissioned officer.
The wound was sick, Vasily limped and quickly tired. It was impossible to live on a handout from the tsarist government, so I had to earn money for bread: at the Sormovo Shipyard in Nizhny Novgorod; at the mechanical plant Osterman and in the granite workshop in Kazan. The turn of fate in June G. This event became a turning point in Blucher's biography. Blucher joined the ranks of the Bolsheviks in June.
In February, Blucher worked in the city of Petrovsky Kazan province as a engineer-motorist at an oil-pouring plant. In May, being himself from the working and peasant environment, Blucher easily gains the trust of soldiers. It is elected to the regimental committee, and later in the Samara City Council of Soldiers' Deputies. After the establishment of Soviet power in Samara, he became an assistant to the commissar of the Samara garrison and the head of the provincial protection of the revolutionary order.
The Civil War-Blucher's take-off Baptism on November 22 of the year, the chairman of the Samara Military Revolutionary Committee V. Kuibyshev called Blucher and appointed him a commissar to an armed detachment sent to liberate Chelyabinsk from the troops of Ataman Dutov. Red detachments successfully eliminated the “Chelyabinsk traffic jam”, and Blucher went to increase.
Since December, Blucher has been headed by the Chelyabinsk Military Revolutionary Committee, and conducts revolutionary, organizational and military work in the areas of the Urals. Blucher was already a commissar, commanded the South Ural partisan army and fought with Cossack chieftain A. Dutov the first military ataman, who declared war on Bolshevism near Orenburg.It was here that the general talents of Blucher first appeared.
The raid on the rear of the White Red Army units continued to squeeze the Dutovites and in March, in April, the situation in the Orenburg military district was complicated: the Cossacks blocked the administrative center of the province, and in the city the Anti -Bolshevik uprising of the Czechoslovak corps took place. The advantage of forces was on the side of the whites, and on July 3 they took Orenburg.
As a result, numerous red detachments were cut off from the supply areas and regular units of the Red Army. At a meeting of the commanders on July 16, it was decided by joint efforts to break through to meet the troops of the Eastern Front. Kashirin was elected the chief of the United Partisan Staff, Blucher was his deputy. Blucher among the associates in the revolutionary struggle.
Troitsk, the Urals, for the year the partisans went to the breakthrough. After 8 days of fierce battles, the Cossacks and the White -Argers threw them to their original positions. The Commander -in -Chief Kashirin was seriously wounded and he was replaced by Blucher. He developed a new breakthrough plan and regrouped the remaining forces. The performance began on August 5 and by the 13th of the partisans of Blucher with battles crossed the Ural Ridge in the area of Bogoyvensk from the year of Krasnousolsk.
Here, other partisan detachments poured into the consolidated detachment of Blucher. As a result, the Bolshevik propaganda boats of the Civil War in the Urals, as a result, the Blucher detachment turned into a South Ural partisan army of 10 thousand. These forces continued to advance west and apply military and property damage to the White Army. As the future Marshal Blucher received his first Order of the Red Banner by the end of May, the fate of the Soviet Republic hung in the balance.
The white reaction, based on the Czechoslovak corps, captured a number of large Siberian cities, cutting off the Far East from Central Russia. White governments are being created in the captured provinces, reprisals begin on those who were convicted of Bolshevik activity. Under the onslaught of Belochekhov, Krasnogvardeis and partisan detachments go into taiga forests. Blucher is also hidden by the commander -in -chief of the combined Ural detachment.
He decided to join the regular units of the Red Army to the west through the Ural Mountains. For organizing the exit from the environment “In impossible conditions”, Vasily Konstantinovich Blucher received his first Order of the Red Banner, just approved in the young Soviet Republic. Blucher was the first gentleman of the Order of the Red Banner. Award sheet of the All -Russian Central Executive Committee of September 28.
The awarded received the order only on May 11 next year. It was presented by a representative of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee at the headquarters of the 3rd Army of the Eastern Front after a short vacation Blucher returned to the current units and was appointed commander of the Rifle Division. Blucher combines the position of assistant commander with the head of the Vyatka garrison.
In July, the Augustus of the year, in Tyumen, I am formed by a rifle division. In the M Division, under the command of Blucher, the Siberian army of Kolchak is smashing, with heavy battles reaches Baikal. I command red detachments in the Urals and Eastern Siberia, Blucher passed the school of courage, determination and a military mark. By the Decree of the Revolutionary Military Council of June 14, Blucher was awarded the second Order of the Red Banner for victories over the White Guards in the year on the Eastern Front when he commanded the Rifle Division.
Here, starting Blucher commands the Perekop shock group. The unsuccessful assault on the Perekop fortifications was another reason for the myth of an incompetent red command, which, if it wins, then only filling the enemy with corpses. Soviet public historiography is known for loved by glory to achieve achievements and silence unpleasant moments. In relation to the Perekop operation in Soviet books, it was written that the Turkish shaft of a moat for a moat built during the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate and an overlapping land defile on the Crimean peninsula - t.