Awienir Konstienczik


In 1908 he graduated from the Orthodox seminary in Vilnius, and in 1910 he attended a military school in Vilnius. Served as a lieutenant in the 33rd Jeleck Infantry Regiment. In 1913, he moved to the 11th Corps Air Division in the rank of lieutenant. In 1914 he graduated from the military aviation school in Gatczyn. He participated in the First World War. He served in the Air Branch of the Brest Lithuanian Fortress and then in the Aircraft Squadron. In 1915 he was replaced by "Ilja Muromiec - V". In early 1916, he took command of the "Ilja Muromiec-X" aircraft. In mid April this year he was seriously wounded during a combat flight in the Friedrichstadt area. After being cured he served in the ground service of the Aircraft Squadron. In 1917 he was promoted to the staff. In 1918 he joined the White Army Gen. Anthony I. Denikin. In mid-October 1920, with the remaining troops, he was evacuated from Crimea to Gallipoli. He emigrated to the SHS Kingdom. After several years he moved to Poland, where he lived in Moloteczno, and from 1933 with his brother - Orthodox clergyman - in Stolpce. He was a psalmist in the local Orthodox church. He also taught religion in the surrounding rural schools. He was awarded the Order of St. George IV, the Order of St. Vladimir IV, the Order of St. Anne II and III, the Order of St. Stanislaus II and III. There is an inscription on the grave of M. M. Constantine that he was a colonel. Bibliography

M. S. Nieszkin, W. M. Szabanow, Aviators - Knights of the Order of St. George and Georgievsky weapons of the period of the First World War of 1914-1918: Biographical directory, 2006

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