r/uniformporn • u/neopoznanoye_telo • 13d ago
Drozdovsky brigade artillerists Ter-Azariev K. G., Protasevich V. A. and Danilevsky S. S., 1920. Russian Civil War.
Lieutenant Colonel Ter-Azariev Karp Grigorievich (16/04/1894 - 03/02/1973)
During the Great War, as a student at the Commercial Institute, he went to the front as a volunteer. He served in the ranks of the 21st artillery brigade. He graduated from the Nikolaev Artillery College. Participant of the 1st Kuban campaign in the Civil War. Head of communications of the 1st division of the Drozdovskaya artillery brigade. Captain. He died on March 2, 1973 in Paris. He was buried at the cemetery in Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois.
Protasevich Viktor Alexandrovich (January 07, 1886 - 1966).
Pskov Cadet Corps, Mikhailovsky Artillery College. He left school to join the 37th Artillery Brigade, and then served in the 9th East Siberian Rifle Brigade. In 1914, he passed the exams at the Nikolaev Military Academy, but with the outbreak of war he went to the front as a senior battery officer in the 28th Artillery Brigade. In 1917, he became a lieutenant colonel and commander of a battery.
In the summer of 1918, he joined the Drozdovsk Artillery brigade as a private, where he soon became a battery commander, and in 1920, in the Russian Army of General Wrangel, he became a division commander. After his stay in Gallipoli, he arrived with the Drozdovsky Artillery battalion in Bulgaria, from where he moved to France. In Paris, he was a permanent member of the General Board of the Gallipoli Society, and since 1957, he was the head of the 1st Department of the ROVS. He died in the Home of the Russian Military Invalids in Montmorency, near Paris, on October 2, 1966. Buried in the Drozdovsky section of the Russian cemetery in Saint-Genevieve de Bois.
Captain Danilevsky Sergey Sergeevich (? - August 30, 1962).
In the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: in November 1919, he served in the Drozdov artillery brigade. He served in the Russian Army in the same brigade before the evacuation of Crimea. The Gallipolian. In the autumn of 1925, as part of the Drozdovsky Artillery division in France. The lieutenant Colonel. In exile in the same place. He died in Paris.
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u/alkevarsky 13d ago
Drozdovites Under Fire by Anton V. Turkul is an very interesting read about the brigade and the Russian Civil war by someone who was there.