HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY Stein J .K ., SIEVERS – THE ARISTOCRATS ON RUSSIAN Сand . of Physico- mathematical sciences, AND SOVIET ELITE MILITARY SERVICE the chairman of the committee of the fund The book “Sievers – The Aristocrats on Russian and Soviet Elite Military Service” by “Mezenat”, Stein-Hudensky Yurie Konstantinovich is dedicated to the memory of his ancestors who famed Ural Federal University at the service to Russia at times of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, being the elite of the named after the first military service of the country. Among numerous representatives of this enormous family tree the President of Russia author selected those ancestors who are mentioned in Russian and German versions of Wikipedia B .N . Yeltsin, as well as a number of books in history of wars of Peter the Great, Russian-Japanese War, World Russia War I and Civil War all of which took place on the territory of our Motherland. Conference participant, National championship In the Memory of my preforefathers “Sievers” in scientific analytics

he subject of this conference is known that right after the birth Pieter his the Dane . He helped with the preparation Tlimitless, because up to the USSR in parents, have relocated to Copenhagen, and the departure of his first expeditions 1941 which has originated on the ruins of the capital of Denmark to settle there across the Pacific Ocean which brought the Russian empire disposed more, than and Pieter went for the service in the fame of the big sea power to Russia!! one million of the German population . Danish royal navy, where he acted in Enormous are the scientific results of However, one must remember that in 1703 up to the rank of the officer cadet! the expeditions of Vitus Behring . It is Russia “the German” was perceived, In 1704, he acted for the Russian service his name with which the opening of the as the name of all foreigners who do in the Baltic navy as the ambassador Behring Strait is connected, that unites not come speaking Russian, other of Piotr the First in Denmark of counts The Pacific and The Arctic Oceans, to Slavic languages and from distant Ismajlow! The following career of Piters which Islands Komandorski and the foreign countries . Therefore, we have Sievers in the Russian service looks specification of the beach line of the substantially decided, the frames of the like this: The affiliation in Russia, the peninsula of Kamchatka are connected! research of the people who accompany branch of service of the navy, the years However, in 1732 after the ascent on the an aristocratic surname, and who have of the service in the ranks: commander throne of Empress Anna Leopoldovna shown significant participation in captain taken in 1704-1732, the admiral, and her favorite, the generalissimo and Russia and the USSR in wars to an extent president of Admiral boards! After the the general of field marshal G .Ch . Biron, which these two states led in the period tip of the emperor, every foreign captain Sievers was taken away and substituted 1703-1945 . All men, described here, of the Russian fleet had to go and up to in 1732 (by a sly Minich), admiral Pieter have the Frisian origin . the assumption of office of the captain Ivanovich Sievers was expelled from all After the row of circumstances of sketch to realize the author’s supervision offices, deprived of all titles, orders and own origin we will briefly stop on the the construction of the ships! property and in sent to honorable exile male and the tabular continuance of their Pieter Iwanowitsch Sievers on to the estate in the Keksholmsk district, women, children and other descendants . Baltic fleet in the course of the Greath where he stayed up to 1740 when he was The second principle of our com­ North War commands:14 cannons exonerated completely! munication becomes their distribution Shaniava (the Russian title of the ship His family and he got the right to live according to the historic sequence (“Falk”) (in 1705-1706), the cannon in their own home in Morskaja Street, of service in the armed forces of the leech frigate 24 “Kronshlot” (in 1707- 25 and a country house that was earlier mentioned countries: the Russian empire 1709), to the cannon ship 50 “Victoria” taken by the national treasury! In 1740 and the USSR . was conferred in 1713 and the cannon admiral Pieter Ivanovich Sievers has died Patriarch of the families of the counts ship 70 “Leferm” (in 1714-1715), to in Saint Petersburg . His descendants and Sievers in the Russian military service: the cannon ship 60 “Saint Ekaterina” in nephews were granted Russian dignity The admiral president Admiral boards 1716 and the cannon ship 64 “Moscow” counts and became the ancestors of these of the Russian fleet of Piotr of the First in 1717-1718) . In 1714 he obtained six genealogic trees . One must note Pieter Ivanovich Sievers can be valid for the title of the Captain Commander that it is stated in one of the Swedish him judicially who was born in 1674 . – “seeing in the night” – the commander manuscripts that is known to us, that in One of his places of birth is arguably of the grouping of the ships (up to 1719) . the province of Skone is mentioned the the town of Stade! Now we tend to think In 1719 he became vice admiral . On bright name of Pieter Sievers (Siuvers) he was born in the city of Stade of the the 25th of May, 1725 he was awarded of “the freasans”, thus making him one Herzogtums of Bremen in the Swedish Saint Alexander Newski Order!! In 1728 of the Frisians, and not of the Swedes! enclave!! It complicates the question he was appointed the President of the The most successful military leader of national identity: Swedish, German, Admiralty Board . As a president Piter of the Sievers in the Russian service is Dutch or Frisian or Danish? Moreover, Ivanovitsch Sievers accepted for the the commander of the fourth cavalry his father was a naval captain, it is Russian service captain Vitus Behring of Corps during the Patriotic war of 1812 222 HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY lieutenant general Karl Karlovich in the gallery of heroes of the Great Commander Rudolf Sievers the First (he went in the family Patriotic War located in the Winter Sievers by the name of Gustav), his feudal Palace . Painted by an English master However, the life of other Sievers, for possessions (the castle and the city Dow, it is now in the Gallery of Heroes example Rudolf Ferdinandovich Sievers, of Zessis (Wenden) in the mouth of of 1812 in Hermitage!! As a reward to went before the eyes of my family . He the river Gauja by the Baltic Sea are the hero were 500 serfs in his country was born on November 11, 1899 in Saint nowadays within the borders of the estate in (Walki settlement near Petersburg in the family of white-collar Republic of Latvia . There he is honored Kharkov) and a patrimony – Wenden workers . In 1914 he graduated from as a national hero which is indicated in a fortress in the mouth of River Gauja, a non-classical secondary school and Latvian monograph! Besides, it is stated where he died in 1856 as complete took the job of a clerk at a factory that that the castle was built by the knights Russian military pensioner with a right produced military-medical products . It order of Sword-Bearers . The grandfather to wear his uniform and bear weapons!! was an important enterprise making first of Karl Karlovich, count Ebergardt saved Karl Karlowich had six children: three aid kits for nurses and medical orderlies . two patrimonies in the surroundings of sons and three daughters 1) Emmanuil The position the 17-year-old took Zessis, where on November 3, 1773 Karl – senator and steward of household, was responsible and necessary for the Sievers was born! The record of service lieutenant general who for some time company . He provided the connection of Karl Karlowitsch Sievers spans from governed Estland) 2) Mindora (1811- between the company and the medical 1796 to 1856 . On February 8, 1785 he 1878) 3) Jakob (1813-1865) head of staff of military hospitals, troop units, entered the Artillery engineering gentry artillery school, 4) Sofia (unknown), 5) railways and army lorries . It was then corps, on December 6, 1789 he took the Alexander, (1823-????) His descendant that he met a 28-year-old nurse in the lab rank of a bayonet cadet and was enlisted was born in the Kharkov province, of doctor Badmayev, at the main country in the 2nd artillery brigade . Since collegiate councillor, civil governor of hospital of the Russian army, in Gatchina February 3, 1790 he fought in Rostov Ekaterinoslav province (in 1857-1862), – Evpraksia Pavlovna Sievers (born Carabineer regiment against Polish and Kharkov (in 1862-1887) . Yelagin Rumyantseva) . She was responsible Confederates . In the rank of colonel on and Saltykov-Schedrin gave him a for the delivery of company products January 17, 1802 he was appointed the nickname Count Borodavkin in the to operating rooms of the hospital . The commander of Starodubowski Regiment latter’s book “The History of Glupov same year Rudolf Ferdinandovich was and on May 16, 1803 produced General- Town” 6) Yevgeniy (1818-1891), a mobilized and sent to a military school in-Chief and appointed the commander member of military war, the chairman of that he finished shortly after in the rank of Novorossiysk Dragoon regiment . the Lutheran Consistory . Karl Karlovich of a warrant officer . He was enlisted in In this position he took part in the himself, his wife and children were 436th Novoladozhsky infantry regiment war against the Ottoman soldiers in Lutherans . The nearest members of the in the northwest front, that is known Moldavia, and in 1806-1809 in the body family were: Count Yegor Karlovich for its revolutionary traditions . During of General Golizyn he fought against Sievers (Georg Alexander) (1799- his education in the military school Napoleon . In this company his regiment 1827) major general and a participant he was often a guest in the houses of took the city of Cracow . On August 5, of the Great Patriotic War of 1812 and Evpraksia Pavlovna and her closest 1812 he displayed courage in the battle the Foreign Campaign in 1825, he was friend countess Adel Aleksandrovna by Krasnoe (Smolensk) against the corps married twice: the first marriage with Krymova, nee baroness von Wikhorst . In of Marshal Davou . Charlotte Tisengausen, and the second conditions of military time they shared On August 25-26 at the field of with Emilie Kruedener, with whom their housekeeping . One more thing Borodino, under his commandment, he had a son named Johann (a chemist made them closer at the time – both the fourth Cavalry Corps prevented and a member of the Academy) he died of them were in the midst of divorce seizure by the French of Semyonowski in 1795 . One of this generation of the proceedings with their husbands – count Redoubt and Bagration fleches, where Sievers, also Yegor (1812-1839) was Mikhail Krymov and in case with my he displayed a special courage . On a companion of Mikhail Lermontov Grandmother with count Major General September 2 he was awarded the order in hussars regiment and was buried Nikolai Nikolayevich Sievers . In the of Saint George No . 249 . On December in Smolensk . Georg Joachim Johann house my mother resided on a regular 18 he was transferred into Witgenstein Sievers (1775-1843), a participant of the basis, the daughter of Evpraksia Pavlovna Corps due to lack of professional Alpine campaign took part in Napoleonic – Galina, while the son of Countess forces in the Fourth Cavalry Corps . Wars as lieutenant general . We will Adel, Mikhail Alexandrovich Krymov, After the operation on river Beresina, further return to the people who have who finished military Officer School and Karl Karlovich Sievers seized harbor- made an important contribution to the at that time was at the front in the rank fortress Pillau, where the remains of the construction of genealogical trees of the of staff captain, and his sister Natasha, French army hid . On February 7, 1813 Sievers, which comprises every Sievers a pupil of Smolny Institute, visited their he was produced lieutenant general . By in it: 1) Tatiana Aleksandrovna Aksakov- mother . Since Adel Aleksandrovna did personal order of emperor Alexander Sievers (1892-1981), the author of a not get the divorce by resolution of the the First, the portrait of Karl Karlovich 2-volume issue «My family», published royal family, her children were placed on Sievers the First (Gustav) is placed in Russian in the Paris “Atheneum” . state support . 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Krymov was then close to the liberal revolutionary troops under command of signed by Rudolf Ferdinandovich and party, and Rudolf Ferdinandovich R .F . Sievers defeated in the Pulkovsky my grandmother was released . The rest – a communist, and between them the heights beside Petrograd columns of of the group were executed in Proval . quarrels about the future of Russia troops of General Yudenich and Imperial The bodies were found by the white army often sprang up . They both served at the German troops that were threatening law commission . But after the deeds northwest front where chief of staff was revolutionary Petrograd! However, in of the Second special army in Kuban at that time Esper Alexandrovich Sievers my whole 81-year life I have not heard and then North of Caucasus and death who was later replaced by count Nikolai on the 23rd of February on the day of would follow Rudolf Ferdinandovich, Nikolayevich – the father of Galina, who festivities dedicated to the defenders but not where he had expected it from . was isolated from her education and of the Motherland the name of Rudolf He was appointed the commander of their contacts were supported by cousin Ferdinandovich Sievers mentioned . the fifth Ukrainian revolutionary red of Nikolai Nikolayevich, Alexander Perhaps it is because the Temporary army . In Tsaritsyn at the time Joseph Alexandrovich Sievers, who used to be Government declared him a German Vissarionovich Stalin had appeared, a friend of the minister of the Imperial spy and it is in force at the moment not he was occupied with creating military Goods in the prerevolutionary time . only on the territories of the RSFSR, powers that would report to him In 1917 Rudolf Ferdinandovich USSR, Russian Federation, but also in personally . They were headed by a entered RKP (b) and became one of Ukraine where I lived for many years, worker Klim Voroshilov and former the most devoted comrade of Vladimir and I have never heard that on the 22nd Cossack captain Semyon Budenny . By Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov), who promoted of November, 1917 the North Flying common efforts they brought to execution him in Petrosoviet, where L .D . Trotzky Squadron freed from Imperial German Cossack commander Mironov . They was chairman . At the same time occupying forces the city of Kharkov!! made it easier with Rudolf Sievers – on Rudolf Ferdinandovich acted as the This day became a long-term memory November 15, 1918 the headquarter tent Commandor of the Artillery Defense of for the family of Stein-Khudensky since was located on the hill at the bank of the the revolutionary Petrograd (battleship then my 12 year old mother Galina river Vorskla by Zhilino village . Suddenly mine bearers and fortresses of Baltic Nokolaevna went in Kharkov to meet from the home-front of the army where fleet, armored trains) and was assigned to her revolutionary future to her uncle cavalry of Budenny and Voroshilov the headquarters of Mikhail Vasilyevich Rudi Sievers and was there with him to was located, an accidental shell arrived Frunze whose closest assistant was Esper the funeral in the Mars fields in 1918 and commander Rudolf Sievers was Alexandrovich Sievers . In June, 1917 where he was buried by the request of the severely wounded . Immediately he was Rudolf Ferdinandowvich was elected workers of Petrograd and by command sent according to the command of Lenin delegate of All-Russian conference of of Lenin . Further Lenin was the person and the Trotzki by the train to Moscow! the front and home-front organizations who remembered about the resolution My mother accompanied him along with WKP (b) . The Temporary Government to create the Workers and Peasants Red doctors to the main hospital of RKKA tried to save their influence on him . After Army (RKKA) in 1917 in what he sent a in Lefortowo, where he died! Galina July events of 1917 he was called over telegram to the Commander of the south Nikolajewna accompanied him to the to the headquarters of the Russian army group Antonov-Ovseenko to Taganrog grave on Mars field . In 1918 my mother in Pskov, supposedly to be awarded with on February 23, 1917: “Tell Sievers that was adopted by the second husband of the order of Saint George . In reality Rostov has to be seized immediately my grandmother whose name was Simon he was arrested and imprisoned in regardless of circumstances” . Rostov-on- Adamovich Stein in Moscow Lutheran “Kresty”, where revolutionary sailors, Don was seized by the Second Special church of Peter and Paul . However, soldiers and red guardsmen released Army headed by Sievers on February 24 . Galina did not remain in Moscow and him . By order of V .I . Lenin a thankful As the memory of that there is a street left to become part of intelligence group Rudolf Ferdinandovich formed them named after Commander Sievers . The led by 1st World War ex-captive Austrian into “North Flying Squad” which was state of Ekaterina Pavlovna Stein was hussar Nikolas Theodor Garnich who glorified on the fronts of the Civil War: complicated by the fact that the Soviet was acquainted with Sievers . He sent the arrest of headquarters of the Russian special commission (VChK) accused units of 5 URKA to the South of Urals army controlled by general Duchonin her of the execution in Kislovodsk by to suppress a Cossack’s uprising on was made in Pskov, general himself white army counter-intelligence of her the giant territory from the cities of was torn to pieces by soldiers at the comrade in arms at the hospital Ksenia Shadrinsk-Kamyshlow up to Orenburg! railway station in Mogilev, participation Ge who was a Bolshevik . Grandmother This is how my mother first found herself in liberation from German occupants found herself in a group to be executed on the territory of Sverdlovsk Region for of the second capital of Ukraine, cities where there were Vladimir Nikolaevich the first time! of Kharkov, Taganrog, Rostov, with the Ruzsky, Admiral Chichagov and usher As we have managed to establish, casual suppression there and in Donbas of the chamber of Zimniy Palace Count the Russian prerevolutionary army and of the troops of the White Army headed Stroganov . They were rushed by foot to RККА was merely a minor place of by generals Mai-Mayevsky, Kaledin, as Kislovodsk to be executed by a firing service for Count Eduard Esperovich well as all kinds of Ukrainian nationalistic squad . By Mashuk they were caught Sievers, who was later known as bandits . Before this, on February 23, 1917 up by a horseman who carried a letter hieromonk Elder Sampson (Sievers) . 242 HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

Count Sievers Eduard Esperowich; served in the military service in RKKA he was sent to Pskov province to Sawwa- was born on the June 27, 1898 by his and his remarks are published in the Krakowezki monastery . mother – an Englishwoman Ann Mable book “Elder SAMPSON (Sievers)” Further he was relocated to (Anna Vasilyevna), who in her maiden (publishing company “Neugassimaja Petrograd, Semenovsky military hospital years lived in London and graduated Lampada” Artos Media, Moscow, 2008) . of RKKA, after the contact of his mother from London Conservatoire . She The closest friend of Eduard Esperovich with Esper Alexandrovich (passing was forced to escape to Russia by the from the young years was the future over voluntarily on RKKA side) . In the assassins sent by her fiancй, an Indian patriarch of the hospital, by order of Mikhail Vasilyevich prince! In Saint Petersburg during a ball, Aleksei II (born Simanski) . The Elder Frunze, Eduard was treated by the best a modest governess met Count Esper SAMPSON (Sievers) died on Friday doctors, who succeeded in preventing Alexandrovich Sievers and married him 24th of August, 1979 at 16 .20 and was the development of gangrene . However, preserving her Anglican faith . She died buried by his spiritual children in the the threat of the seizure by the white in 1942 in blockade Leningrad . Count orthodox Nikolo-Archangelsk cemetery guardsmen and the Germans or the Esper Sievers became father to three in the Lyuberetsky district of Moscow revolutionary Petrograd was still very children: Eduard (named in honor of beside the railway station Ukhtomka . In big, and Eduard was moved in the King of England), Alexander (named the abovementioned book it is mentioned Tikhvinsky monastery, where already as after his grandfather on the father’s side), that the Sievers family is noble, monk Alexander he became friends with and the youngest daughter (whose name originates from Denmark and relocated future Patriarch Alexei II . On the other is unknown) . in the end of the 18th century to Sweden hand, Sergian renovationists once seized Count Esper Alexandrovich, his further moving to Saint Petersburg . Eduard in the street and handed him over father Alexander and his grandfather In the Russian Empire the men of the to WeCheKa, where at that time in 1919 Ivan Sievers were Lutherans . The family served in the Russian army and his brother Alexander Esperovich was great-grandfather of Eduard Esperovich the fleet from 1704 . shot after the accusation in participation – Ivan Sievers was a well-known Now we have to say a few words in the counter-revolutionary conspiracy . Russian diplomat of czarina Jekaterina on how spiritual service was chosen by (The destiny of his sister remains I epoch, and grandfather Alexander Eduard Esperovich Sievers: in in 1904 unknown) .But his mother – Countess Ivanovich was a Russian diplomat the family of Count Esper Alexandrovich Anna Vasilyebna Sievers learned of Anna Leopoldowna epoch and lived in the country in Terioki beside from Esper Alexandrovich about the served by generalissimo Biron . Esper Saint Petersburg, his son Eduard was an acceptance of the orthodox religion by Alexandrovich was an officer of the independent young man and would often Eduard . She visited Eduard Esperovich General Staff of the Russian army and leave the house . He was particularly and pronounced to him the opinion of the died in the hands of his son in 1929, interested in the history of the Russian Sievers: «You must know, that you have (having served in RККА for 12 years) . navy, but he got acquainted with it in a injured us (Sievers) and we strike you There brigade commander Esper quite peculiar way – he visited a small out of the lists of both living and dead» . Alexandrovitsch was a fight comrade church in Kronstadt, the temple “Spas Orthodox service of Eduard lasted, he of Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze . He was on Waters” built in the memory of the was admitted to monastic vows by father a widely educated person, as a young sailors, who died in the Tsushima battle . Mikhail of church “Spass on the Waters”, officer he finished the academy of arts The priest there was the disciple of father on the 25th of March 1921 he received has after the class of the icon painting . Ioann Kronshtadski – father Mikhail, a from hands of hierarch Nikolas a calotte And before the revolution he made former sailor and the sharp-sighted priest and the monk name of Simeon . These success as an icon painter . His icons who in 1904 was already 90 years-old . actions are part of biography of the Holy decorated the orthodox Saint Icaac’s In 1914 the First World War began . Father Sampson, which is published cathedral . After his death and breaking The officer of the General Staff Esper by the Poltava eparchy of Ukrainian up with orthodox Eduard countess Ann Alexandrovich Sievers set off on the orthodox church . Mable Sievers demanded her son to front to the chief of staff of the northwest There is no reason to maintain that return the suit of Esper Alexandrovich army commanded by lieutenant general all bearers of the aristocratic surname and his gold watch (he was buried in his Vladimir Nikolaevich Ruzski (1854- Sievers in Russia or their relatives were uniform as a Red commander) . 1918) . The northwest army and the front at least acquainted with each other . The Let us return to the military service became a place of the service of some Sievers family tree so ramified, that only of Eduard Esperovich, because at the members of the Sievers family . one branch remembers of their relatives . moment this question is the subject After the departure of his father We did not happen to be acquainted with of investigation of Russian Orthodox Eduard has own room for studies where the relatives of Esper Alexandrovich ., Church . Nowadays there is a large he began reading the works of the Although I was a guest of prior of number of the “spiritual children” and fathers of the orthodox church and study Pechoro-Pskov Lavra Alipiy (Voronov), followers of Eduard Esperovich who was Russian . Only in 1917, when he was 19 when Father SAMPSON served his known in the end of his life as hieromonk years old he was baptized in Russian church punishment in the monastery Elder Sampson (Sievers) according orthodox faith under the name of Sergiy . prison, father superior Alipiy in presence some opinions Eduard Esperovich never After baptism, for security matters, of the whole monk community begged 25 3 HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

him to be forgiven!! They witnessed as World War Nikolai Nikolayevich often in Waldorf and forced him to retreat . Alexander – Simeon – Sampson was was in Germany, where for his plants August 28 . (10 Sep) . Sievers managed given back all of his all monk’s regalia! bought elite Dachshund dogs . to eliminate Waldorf breakthrough . This brought tears both on the eyes of During the education Evpraksia during these operations was seized half the brethren and on mine as well . was determined in the services of the a million captive soldiers and officers My grandmother, Ekaterina Pavlovna of empress Maria Fedorovna . The of the Austro-Hungarian Army . For Stein, was born in Novgorod Province in empress liked her very much and won these actions he was awarded the Order 1881 . She died in 1959 in Moscow and her reciprocal feelings . From this of St . George 4-th degree . 23/09/1914 was buried on the cemetery «Vvedenskie communication Evpraksia inherited a appointed commander of the 10th Army mountains», which before the revolution burning dislike of Empress Alexandra, of the North-Western Front . was called “German” . At birth she was whom Maria Feodorovna, born Princess At this time, the above graph Nikolai Russian and orthodox . She was born Dagmar Danish, could not forgive Nikolayevich Sievers continued his with the name Evpraksia Rumyantseva . captured from Denmark and Prussia service in the following positions At her first marriage the name changed Schleswig Holstein . Maria Feodorovna – 1914-15 Quartermaster General to Countess Evpraksia Sievers and in called Alice, General Rennenkampf and Staff of the 5th Army; the second marriage to Stein Ekaterina Minister Sukhomlinov, during the First – 1915 – Chief of Staff of the 12th Pavlovna . World War, the German spies . Now, Army; So, on the wall of grandmother’s after some political manipulations with – 1915-16 . Chief of Staff of the 6th room an English bag of a nurse with a red discovered in Yekaterinburg remains of Army . cross on the white circle hung over the the royal family, they – the Dowager During the First World War, bed . Ekaterina Pavlovna was a brunette, Empress Maria Feodorovna, and hated Ekaterina Pavlovna Rumyantseva served with the rare grey hair, emerald green Alice, joined in the memorial of the in a private clinic of the famous Dr . Peter eyes with black dots over the irises . Romanovs in the fortress of Saint Peter Badmaev in the first overland military Evpraksia used the sufficient and Paul . After completing medical hospital and other medical facilities . freedom in the academy . education, Imperial frontline nurse In terms of the campaign of 1915 on Once when she was running “on all Evpraksia Rumyantseva was in 1900- the Army of Faddey Sievers the primary sails” – the grandmother’s expression 1901 years in the service in the hospital role in the conduct offensive operations – on the length of the hall where the at the headquarters of the Siberian Army to mastering East Prussia . Army was delegation of the patrons of the academy Corps . Her frontline activities started located south of the Neman and along was walking by – aristocrats of the in the Cossack units . Their commander the Masurian lakes . Romanov family and others . At her full was then the Russian General of Infantry At the same time, in the middle of speed, she ran into one of them . Grand Baron Faddey V . Sievers . January 1915 XXII AK Russian general . duke Nikolai Nikolayevich Junior led Faddey V . Sievers (10/18/1853 AF von den Brink was transferred to the group and the injured man was count – 1915) – Russian infantry general, the 8th Army waged heavy fighting Nikolai Nikolayevich Sievers . On the educated in Nicholas cadet school and the in the Carpathians . The surgical angry question – «Why do children run Academy of the General Staff . He taught construction carried the linear character across the academy?» – the principal at Elisavetgrad cavalry cadet school . and the possibility of the maneuver was gave a complete answer . Since 14 .12 .1900 he was in the order of excluded . The grand duke pronounced the wish the Chief of the General Staff . Part of February 17 (March 2) in 1915 to continue the education Evpraksia China campaign . The chief of staff of the the remains of the twentieth AK along Rumyantseva by the state and, to give VII army corps, with 11 .08 .1904 – the with the 1st and 12th armies under her the education of a military nurse XVIII Pr Armeekor . Since 07 .08 .1901 the command of FV Sievers took the to guarantee her future . Count Nikolai Chief of Staff of the VII Corps, with offensive . The fighting dragged on . Nikolayevich Sievers also joined this 11 .08 .1904 – XVIII Army Corps . On FV Sievers cleared of German troops, wish . Later during the Russian-Japanese 19/11/1904 commander of the 27th The August woods, but suffered heavy war in 1903-1905 count was the chief Infantry Division, X Corps, led by the losses in Grodno . In the 2nd half of of staff of the Russian army whose world war came in the 3rd Army under March Sievers forced the enemy to commander was general Kuropatkin . General Nikolai Ruzskiy . By the end of withdraw to a distance . After the defeat There he met Evpraksia Rumyantseva the deployment of the corps were the of the German forces under Prasnysh again . In winter her marriage ceremony 9th, 31th and 78th Infantry Divisions . began their retreat to the borders of East took place in 1903 in the Irkutsk church 17 (30) August 1914 Peremyshlyanami Prussia, but the Russian armies attempt over Angara . By the nature the count was he broke through the front of the Austro- to break through the enemy’s defenses a gentle man, who, despite his bellicose Hungarian XII Corps, taking with 16 were not successful . After the defeat of appearance, was more attracted to a guns, which was a signal to retreat across FV Sievers was removed from command career of a breeder and has been breeding the third of the Austro-Hungarian Army . and 25 .4 .1915 dismissed . He was hunting dogs – dachshunds . He bought In the battle of Rava-Russian August 26 depressed, experiencing heavy defeat of the best manufacturers across Europe (September 8), the Austro-Hungarian his army . Committed suicide by shooting for numerous kennels . 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In general, in the future of my Wikentijevich Weressajews “elective”, against the Soviets . Implicitly grandmother Catherine Pavlovna and particularly the story “in our hospital”. VI Lenin and LD Trotsky had solved her daughter Galina, as barons and earls At the beginning of the war against the problem of keeping the rest of the Sievers, played a significant role in both Japan, on the 15th of March 1904 5-URCA from annihilation Cavalry, the dark and in bright days . years. The upper order about the commanded by Klim Voroshilov and Our relationship with my Ussurikosakenbrigade has taken over Semyon Budyonny as happened before grandmother and mother were formed major general A.W.Samsonow where the with the Red Army Cossack Mironov! back in the pre-revolutionary period older medical sister Jewpraksija and the In 1921, she was admitted to the with outstanding Bolshevik, publisher volunteer’s orderly Marija Rumjanzew High Literary Art Institute . In 1924, of the newspaper “Pravda Okopnaja” served. From the first fight — on the 17th shortly before closing VLHI death troops north-western front in the Baltic, of May 1904 years., under Judsjatun, VJ Bryusov, Galina Stein defended a a future member of the Petrograd Rudolf Alexander Wassiljewitsch Samsonov. thesis under the direction of Professor Ferdinandovich Sievers – successful Japanese divisions what has sealed the Boris A . Griftsov (1885-1950), who in Army Commander 5 Ukrainian Red battles destiny. the 30s of the last century has become Army . During the Civil War, he brought In the Ljaojan battle, the flank the authoritative theoretician and out of the Cheka dangers my grandmother department commanding, has rejected practitioner of literary translation, one and her sister Mary with the child in her the attack of the Japanese guard brigade, of the founders of still translating Soviet arms Yura in Mineral Waters . They were and during the divergence has taken school . Thesis “Literary companions - arrested in Rostov-on-Don at the time of with four Siberian Cossack’s shelves and ” Serapion Brothers “ . It Galina Stein the baptism of a child Lutheran pastor . the riding battery the Jantaj position and predicted a prominent role of members Now, the army commander of RF held on them, until the Russian bodies of the literary community in the coming Sievers . His heroic act he performed left northwards organised. In these Soviet literature: Kaverin, Tikhonov, immediately after his army liberated from battles took part the mostly necessary Zoshchenko Seifullina and others . In white and red Rostov unleashed terror participants of the war – the medical 1924, my mother took part in the funeral in the North Caucasus . Every time our sisters of the field hospitals who realised of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin in the family happens to be in St . Petersburg, we the fee seriously injured, performed student delegation . arrive at the Champ de Mars, and lay on the first care like thus to the Japanese After graduating VLHI, being the grave of the commander of a bouquet soldiers as well as the officers, and her “lishenka,” she went to work for a of red carnations, especially on the day delivery in in front of the hospital. In teacher of French in night school of the Great Victory – 23 February . We the continuance of the medical service working distillery plant “Crystal” in Christians of different denominations, of the brigade of Samsonow realised Simonov monastery and the first call we pray for the forgiveness of his soul . the fee of the schwerbeschedigter to the IBSC in the case of the “golden My Grandmother and the General- sister Rumjanzewa and the wife of the youth” came in a red scarf, white shirt major Nikolai Sievers commander Jekaterina Aleksandrowna. and blue production bathrobe, what My grandmother did not have My Mother Chairman Comrade Artuzov (Frautschi) the first military campaign in China She did not study either in high reacted historic phrase: “So here it is (in 1901-1902) with pleasure to school, not in the Soviet school, for – the star of the Moscow Charleston!” remember. This war … Jewapraksija November 28, 1917 in Kharkov, leaped This fame helped her mother to end her Rumjanzewa has noticed itself like from their own master’s childhood marriage to two institutions: Moscow the uninterrupted atrocity which the and youth in the saddle Cossack Pedagogical specialty – russist and Cossacks about the peaceful Chinese cavalry scout Northern flying squad, Moscow Pedagogical Institute of farmer repaired. . These crimes of the commanded the first commander of the Foreign Languages . Maurice Thorez on soldiers and the officers commanding Red Army Rudolph Ferdinandovich Roman-Germanic philology . During this the Russian grouping of the troops Sievers! Staff of the former commander time she worked in “Artel Translators” encouraged general P.K.Rennenkampf of the reconnaissance Hussars Kaiser’s at the Union of Inventors of the RSFSR . who was also hard like concerning the army of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy During the First World Congress of usual Cossacks, as well as concerning Garnich Nicholas – born in the Austrian Inventors in Moscow Galina Stein general Sievers Faddej Wassiljevich Burgenland and Croatian in nationality . met with the pitcher hopes Ukrainian ,who commanded them. From Bejpin Professionally, as a connoisseur of inventor, a young man and a poet (Peking) my grandmother has started his Slavic and Germanic Galina Stein grew Constantine Hudensky . In 1930 they were present – the trophy from the imperial up in contact with him, which continued married . palace – covered with the black varnish after the death of Rudolf Ferdinandovich After moving our family in Lyubertsy, carved the wooden Chinese armchair. Sievers in 1918! As part of the Fifth due to marriage, the mother began to Even more it costs 100 years than split, orphaned Ukrainian Revolutionary work in a special school working for with us by the restaurantchamber. At Red Army withdrew from the Ukraine political exiles of the State Lyubertsy the moment four photographs and the to the South Urals in the vast steppe Agricultural Machinery Plant (GLZ) . book of the authors remind in our house region of cities Shadrinsk – Kamyshlov This school is in a modern enterprise, of Jewpraksia Rumjanzewa Wikentij to Orenburg to end a revolt Whites and 60% of which was exported to Germany 27 3 HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

and the Scandinavian countries, is her research team now of the communist approved by the Ukrainian writers who focused on the social rehabilitation of academy at the moment as a historian . have turned out in the evacuation in political refugees in the new environment: Together they worked (Galina as a Sverdlovsk, as well as the chairperson the training of and littered cerium of Old-French texts) of the alliance of the authors of Ukraine work specifically to the young Social on books “1812” and “Napoleon Maksim Taddeyewich Rylski then with Democrats and the Communists from Buonaparte” that were published just whom the father the amicable relations of Europe and America could live a normal before World War II!! The uncle Count the times of the common work connected life in the Soviet Union . This factory is Sievers Aleksander Aleksandrovich, in the first capital of the Soviet Ukraine – my father, Constantine Hudensky, was delivered the documents in addition with Kharkov . The only professional belletrist chief of the Export Workshops, which the Soviet power the prominent employee translator and the linguist in our family made mowers, balers, and lnoterebilki of the historical museum on red place was Galina Semenowna Hudenski, who lobogreyki . Bureau “Artel Translators” Moscow and Statarkhiv (GARF) . became a main assistant of the father in provided authentic translation into There mother seriously begun to the translation of “Eneida” into Russian . German, Finnish, Swedish, Danish and deal with our informal project – the After the completion of this gigantic Norwegian of all relevant documentation translation on the Russian of the full work and up to the demise in 1971 a and correspondence GLZ plant . These meeting of writing the classic of modest housewife, remained the widow years Galina Hudenskaya worked as a the Ukrainian literature, writer Ivan of the older officer of the Soviet army translator of poetry and met historical Petrovich Kotlyarevski . The aim was – colonel engineer Hudenski Konstantin expert Garnich Nikolai Fedorowitch, put by the father still in 1941 and is Vasilyevich .

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