General Gurko Biography

At the end of the Page Corps in the city of Gurko, he released a cornet into the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, and two years later he was produced in the guarantees. In the city in the middle of the x. Gurko was part of the St. Petersburg garrison, where he was produced in the Rotmisters. During the Crimean campaign - gg. Gurko sought to take part in hostilities, for which he changed his epaulettes of the guardian of the guard to the shoulder straps of the army major.

He transferred to the Chernigov Infantry Regiment of the Count I. Dibich-Zabalkansky, but did not participate in the battles, since at that time Sevastopol was already surrendered, and a peace treaty was soon concluded. After the war, Gurko returned to the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, and in February Gorko was enrolled in the retinue of Emperor Alexander II and carried out a number of important administrative instructions, which included the implementation of peasant reform in the Samara, Vyatka and Kaluga provinces.

In September, G. Gurko was present at the opening of the monument to the Millennium of Russia in Veliky Novgorod. Over the next Tie, Gurko replaced a number of team military posts, having risen to the head of the division.

Gurko showed the talent of a military commander and personal courage during the Russo-Turkish war. Appointed by the commander of the advanced southern detachment of the Russian army, operating with the Danube, in June, he received the Order of St. George of the 3rd degree and the title of Adjutant General in June. In August, Gurko went to St. Petersburg, mobilized and fees of his 2nd Guards Cavalry Division and returned with her to the theater of military operations under the court.

He managed to convince General E. Totleben, who led the siege of the fortress, in the need for decisive actions on the Sofia highway, through which reinforcements and food went to the Plevna. Having received an additional guard to his command, including the Izmailovsky regiment, in October, Gorko was awarded a golden sword showered with diamonds for the battle of the Gorno Dubnyak.

In winter, G. Gurko put forward a plan for an immediate advance for the Balkans. In December, commanding thousands. As a result of stubborn battles, he took possession of the Tashkisen fortified line and by the beginning of G. Following the Gurko, the transition through the Balkans made other detachments of the Russian army. An unprecedented winter transition through the Balkans predetermined the outcome of the war, which was conducted in the name of the liberation of the Bulgarian and other Balkan peoples.

The contribution of Gurko to the victory brought him not only the rank of general from the cavalry and the Order of St. George of the 2nd degree, but also a great public recognition. After the war, in April, several years later, he became the interim Odessa governor general, and then for over the years he was a Warsaw General Governor and commander of the Warsaw Military District.

The permanent trips of the commander in the district, his presence on large and small maneuvers contributed to the establishment of the military life of the troops. Gurko, due to health reasons, resigned, receiving the rank of Field Marshal upon dismissal. When entering the throne of Nicholas II in the city of Andrew the First -Called. On the night of January 15, January 15, the people of Bulgaria to this day honor the memory of Russian General I.

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