History 29/02/20 “Part of death”: how to fight shock regiment Kornilov
Since the summer of 1917 to the autumn of 1920, the Kornilov shock regiment participated in over 500 battles with the Germans during the First world campaign and fought in the White movement with the red Army in the Civil war.
“Part of death”
So, officially called percussion unit composed of military units of the tsarist Russian army, which was created in 1917 to improve their performance – as opposed to spreading the revolutionary anti-war sentiments on the fronts of the First world war.
As he wrote in his order of the General of cavalry A. A. Brusilov, the shock troops always went to the assault of the enemy ahead of the main forces regiment (shown, in particular, in the Soviet movie “Chapaev”). The composition of the Kornilov shock regiment, which historians consider to be the most durable shock unit of its kind, in addition to front-line infantry was part of the machine-gun company, one hundred Cossacks of the 30th don Cossack regiment.
Awesome form
Kornilov-drummers had their own form that distinguish them from other units of the Royal (White) army. Officers and soldiers in uniform and cockade adorned with a skull. The officers wore tunics and trousers with white edging. Black and red tabs sewn on the form as the officers and soldiers, the only difference is that the senior military officers, they stood the same white edging, flanked their cap. The emblem of the regiment was placed on the left sleeve, just below the overhead.
As they fought in the First world
According to the memoirs of A. I. Denikin (“Sketches of Russian troubles”), Kornilov bravely distinguished himself in battles in the South-Western front, in particular, in the last offensive operation of Russian troops in the First world war in June-July 1917 in Galicia. The shock troops first went into battle and suffered huge losses. When “healthy” item was broken by the enemy, soldier mACCA, wrote historian N. N. Golovin, turned into an unruly armed mob, lost all fighting capacity.
However, the offensive units L. Kornilov considered successful (was seized 7 thousand prisoners and 48 guns). In General, however, the June operation is estimated by historians as a failure because of the loss of combat capability, most of the soldiers who succumbed to the campaign to stop the war. According to the memoirs of A. Denikin troops after the February revolution had already been largely demoralized.
But the leadership of General Kornilov (commanded the 8th army) in these battles contributed to his future career – in July of that year, Laurel G. was appointed commander of the southwestern front, and then the Supreme commander. By the way, that after operation in Galicia Kornilov, a decision was made to create a shock shelves, and his unit was the first of more than a hundred similar units formed before the Civil war.
… and in Civil
according to A. R. Tusnovics in the “Memoirs of Kornilova” in September 1917, Kornilov shock regiment, consisting of 3 thousand soldiers, was renamed the Slavic shock regiment with the preservation of emblems and insignia. In October Kornilov opposed the red guards in the street fighting in Kiev. Then they moved to the don for entry into the emerging Volunteer army of the White movement. In the Volunteer army, according to the encyclopedia “the Revolution and Civil war in Russia: 1917-1923 gg.”, fought about 600 strikers-Kornilov (according to A. R. Tuchlovice only for a few months in 1918 part of the Slavic regiment included more than 15 thousand people).
Kornilov took part in the First and Second Kuban campaigns of the Volunteer army, stormed the eagle, Rostov-on-don, Ekaterinodar (during his assault L. G. Kornilov was killed), and also participated in other important battles of the Civil war. Near Kakhovka Kornilov shock division suffered huge losses. According to historians, since the formation of the shock troops of Kornilov (August 1917) to evacuate their residues from the Crimea (November 1920), these “Berserkers” lost in killed and wounded about 50 thousand people.
After emigrating from Soviet Russia Kornilov enterprises existed in France and Bulgaria. Most remarkable is the fate of one of the leaders of the Kornilov regiment of major-General N. In. Skoblina: already in France he was recruited by the GPU, and contributed to the kidnapping of General E. K. Miller, leader of the emigre Russian all-Military Union.
Nicholas Syromyatnikov
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