Sergueï wojciechowski — Wikipedia
Serguue Wojciechowski or Voïtzekhovsky ( , ViteBSK – , Irkutsk region, U.R.S.S.), (in Russian Sergey Nikolaevich Voitskhovsky ; Czech Sergei Nikolaevich Vojcechovsky ) is an officer of the Russian Imperial Army of Polish origin who participated in the Russian civil war, on the side of the white armies, in Siberia.
His father, Nicolas Karlovitch, was an officer of Polish origin from the Russian imperial army. Her mother was born Marie Mikhaïlovna Gnatowskaïa. In 1909, he married the daughter of a Russian officer, Margarita Viktorovna Temnikova, of whom he had a son, Georges.
He was a pupil until 1902 of the modern high school of Velikié Louki, near Pskov, then entered the Constantin artillery school (Saint Petersburg), from which he released in 1904.
He then served in the 2 It is Artillery brigade of the 20 It is infantry division of first re Army of the Caucasus, where he took care of the investigation. Then he became an instructor at 5 It is Fuse regiment of the Bialystok artillery division. He became Aide-de-Camp of his future stepfather, Colonel Victor Temnikov.
In 1912, he was incorporated into the first re Grenadiers brigade, while teaching military tactics at the Alexandre war school, in Saint Petersburg. He obtained his war pilot certificate. During the year 1913, he served at the Moscow military region, then until June 1914 was commander of the 122 It is Tambov infantry regiment.
During the Great War, he became aide-de-camp at the staff of the 69 It is infantry division, then from January 1917 at the staff 20 It is army Corps. He fought in the carpaths and in the battles of the Dniepr. He was injured and decorated with several orders. In 1914, he was a captain, he became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1916.
Until September 1917, he became de facto chief of the staff of the 126 It is infantry division and then chief of the staff of the first re Czech division, incorporated into the Russian army.
After the October Revolution, he became commander of a regiment of Czech rifle trees, and in May 1918, became the commander of the Czech Legion, then based near Tcheliabinsk. He organized and provided the armament of the Czechs, in order to fight the Bolsheviks.
He took the city of Theliabinsk on the night of 26 at and hired his troops on the Urals’ front. The following month, he united his forces to those of Radola Gajda (Rudolf Geidl) based in Siberia.
The , he returned to the service of the white armies (in the high-command of Admiral Koltchak), to the rank of general major. He ordered the 2 It is army of OUFA. He was decorated for the captures of Theliabinsk, Troïtsk, Zlatooust, Ekaterinburg.
From August 1919, the situation in the white army had become more perilous. His army was attacked on his right flank by the 27 It is Division of Red Army Fusiliers. He countered further north and succeeded at the cost of a severe discipline (he shot General Blanc Grivine) to maintain the front.
The , he was at the gates of Krasnoïarsk. THE , on the death of General Vladimir Kappel, he took command of the eastern front. He directed the white army to Irkutsk where terrible fights took place at the end of January, until February 1; But an epidemic of typhus struck the white army, already bloodless.
After the death of Admiral Koltchak, the whites folded along the Angara river to Lake Baikal frozen. It was the long step of the survivors of the armies of Koltchak beyond the Baikal, an episode remained famous under the name of the “ice cream” of Siberia.
In May 1920, Wojciechowski was in Crimea, where a government in the hands of whites tried to stay in power. He joined General Wrangel. In November 1920, upon arrival of the Reds, he was evacuated by sea to Constantinople and took refuge in Czechoslovakia.
The , he became an officer of the Czechoslovak army and commanded the transcarpathy forces, near Oujgorod, then commanded a division in Trnava (the former Tyrnau) and, from 1927, the Army of Brno. He was appointed general in 1929 and, in 1935, general at the Prague staff.
In 1938, he ordered the first re Army of Czechoslovakia. At the time of the Munich crisis, he was actively anti-Munich.
He was therefore forced to resign in April 1939. During the German occupation, he was part of an organization Czech internal resistance the “defense of the nation” ( Defense ).
Upon arrival of Soviet troops, he was arrested in Prague by the NKVD, the , and deported to Moscow on May 30 at Boutyrka prison. He was sentenced the at ten years in prison. In 1946, he was locked up at the gulag near Oujensk and in 1949, at the Taïchet camp. He worked, because of his poor health, as a nurse at the infirmary of the camp. He died there of tuberculosis, the .
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