Georgy Semyonovich Gotua
Georgy Gotua | |
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| Native name | გიორგი გოთუა |
| Born | 13 January [O.S. 1 January] 1871 Guria |
| Died | 13 January 1936 (aged 65) Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Buried | |
| Allegiance | Russian Empire Russian State (1918–1920) |
| Rank | Major General |
| Battles / wars | Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War |
| Awards | Cross of St. George Order of Saint Vladimir Order of Saint Stanislaus Order of Saint Anna Legion of Honour Croix de Guerre |
| Spouse(s) | Elena |
| Children | Georgy, Elena, Nina, Tamara, and Konstantin |
Georgy Semyonovich Gotua (Georgian: იორგი გოთუა; 13 January [O.S. 1 January] 1871 – 13 January 1936) is the only high-ranking officer of the Imperial Russian Army who performed allied duty until the end of the World War I.
Biography
[edit]Gotua was born on 13 January [O.S. 1 January] 1871, in Guria. He graduated from the Kutaisi progymnasium in 1889 and the Tiflis infantry cadet school in 1896. In 1902 he served in the 256th Gunibsky reserve battalion, then in the 8th Krasnovodsk reserve battalion. Gotua served in the Russo-Japanese War.[1]
In 1909 Gotua served as a captain of an infantry reserve brigade,[1] and participated in World War I.
In the rank of captain of the 8th Turkestan Rifle Regiment, he was awarded the Cross of St. George. As part of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France, he fought in the territories of France and Germany. In 1916 he fought in France and, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, commanded a battalion of the 2nd special regiment of the 1st brigade (later colonel of the Special Brigade in France). Gotua commanded the Russian Legion.[2][3] This unit, as part of the French Moroccan Division was the first of the allied armies to breach the Hindenburg Line.[1][2][3]
After the end of World War I, Gotua was in the Volunteer Army (later Armed Forces of South Russia), first with the 2nd army reserve battalion in the beginning of 1919 and then as a Major General in command of the 7th Reserve Battalion from 3 November 1919. In 1921 he went into exile in Yugoslavia, living with the Don Cadet Corps (Russia) in Bileća.
Gotua died on 13 January 1936. He was buried in the Belgrade New Cemetery, the resting place of many Russian emigrants.[4]
Georgy had a son, Georgy Georgievich Gotua, who died in 1971 in Yugoslavia, and was buried with his father. Due to the impossibility of family reunification, the remaining children (Elena, Nina, Tamara and Konstantin) lived with their mother Elena in Georgia.
Awards and honors
[edit]- Cross of St. George (18 March 1915)[5]
- Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th class (19 December 1915)
- Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class (2 September 1916)
- Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class (12 November 1916)
- Legion of Honour
- Croix de Guerre
External links
[edit]- Готуа Георгий Семёнович
- Евгения Готуа — Поезд на Мариуполь
- Малиновский Р. Я. Солдаты России. — М.: Воениздат, 1988. — 455 с. — ISBN 5-203-00102-2
- Иван Добра. Белые тени.[dead link]
- Валерии Яковлев Виват Франция! Прощаи Париж .
- Cockfield, Jamie H. With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I. ISBN 0-312-17356-3[dead link]
- Poitevin, Pierre, «La Mutinerie de la Courtine. Les regiments russes revoltes en 1917 au centre de la France», Payot Ed., Paris, 1938
References
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- 1871 births
- 1936 deaths
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class
- Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 2nd class
- Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
- White movement generals
- White Russian emigrants to Yugoslavia
- Russian military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery
- Georgian generals in the Imperial Russian Army