Nikolai Stackelberg

Nikolai Ivanovich Stackelberg (Stakelberg), Russian Николай Иванович Штакельберг (born 3 October 1870, died March 20, 1956 in Melbourne) is a Russian military general, emigre activist veteran.

He came from an aristocratic family. He graduated from junior high school and in 1892 was a military school of infantry junkies in St. Petersburg. He served in the 40th Infantry Regiment. In 1894 he was transferred to the Keksholmski Regimental Liaison. In 1898 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and in 1902 the lieutenant, then the captain, and in 1906 the captain. In 1911, he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus class 2, and in 1912 Order of St. Stanislaus. Anne 2 class. In 1913, he graduated from an officer's school of fire and later became a lieutenant colonel in the 1st Battalion of the Kegsonholm Regiment. He participated in the First World War. From 1915 he commanded the 80th Kabardine Infantry Regiment, May 1916 Keoksholm Regiment. At the beginning. December of this year he was appointed Major General. In half. In June 1917 he was awarded the Order of St. Jerzy 4 class. He then took command of the 3rd Guards Infantry Brigade. In March 1919 he joined the White Army Gen. Anthony I. Denikin. He found himself in the officer's reserve at the command post. From the beginning. In July 1919, he commanded the Mixed Regiment of Guards, which was soon transformed into the Mixed Guards Brigade, which won Constantinople, and then broke off its front, approaching Poltava. After being reformed in October of that year in the Grenadier Mixed Grenadier Division, it was split over the Dnieper. Colonel N. I. Stackelberg retired in February / March 1920 in the Polish frontier, and along with the rest of the army he was detained in an internment camp in the Przemysl area. After 6 months he was released. He arrived in Romania, from where he arrived by sea in the Crimea, entering the White Army of General N. Wrangel. He was still in command of the senior commanding officer. In half. In November 1920, along with the other troops, he was evacuated to Gallipoli. In 1921 he settled in Poland in his native land. He was at the head of the Warsaw branch of the Leipzig Association of Leghworth Regiment. During World War II he emigrated to Australia.

Biography of Nikolai I. Stackelberg (Russian) Bibliography

Nikołaj N. Rutycz, Biographical directory of the highest ranks of the Volunteer Army and the Armed Forces of the South of Russia: Materials on the history of the White movement, 2002

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