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In April 1915, Lavr Georgievich and his 48th "steel" division covered the retreat of Russian troops from the Carpathians. Wounded in the arm and leg, he was captured. For this battle, he was awarded the Order of St. George, 3rd degree. After healing his wounds, he escaped from a camp for captured officers in 1916.
This audacious move created a real sensation. Nicholas II personally received the general at Headquarters, promoted him to general of the Infantry and awarded him the Order of St. George, III degree, and the Russian press made him a national hero.

Excerpts from Alexander Pushkin's poems are quoted under the illustrations.

1. At the monument to Pushkin in Moscow. The people's path to it will not be overgrown... Alexander Pushkin - Exegi Monumentum
2. On Pushkin's grave. And let it be, beside the grave's vault That young life forever will be playing... Alexander Pushkin - If I walk the noisy streets...
3. At the club of Proletarian poets Hello, young and unfamiliar tribe...! Alexander Pushkin - I visited again...
4. Komsomolets. The kitchen-pot is dearer to you You cook your food in it... Alexander Pushkin - The Poet and the Crowd.

"Let's hang him; he was once for the tsar!" And they immediately dealt with him. He was a good old man, one of the few experts in the field of artillery in all of Russia."

© Memoirs of military pilot Bert Hall about the revolution in Russia. From the book Caught Up in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport. Live voices of eyewitnesses"

Long live the revolutionary people!
What will we produce during the constituent assembly?

1. A speedy and lasting peace.
2. All power to the people.
3. All land without redemption - to the working people - Land only to those who work on it. No purchase or sale of land.
4. Shifting taxes from the poor to the rich.
5. The destruction of the standing army and its replacement by the people's militia.
6. The struggle for socialism, i.e., the transfer of factories into the hands of the working people.
   Peasants and workers - who were nothing - will become everything!

Nikolai Fedorovich Garanovsky

He was born in 1917 in Kiev. The Ukrainian. He served in the army from the age of 13 (a graduate of the Red Army), and was in active service in the Red Army since 1936. He was a member of the Komsomol.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, he became a senior officer and platoon commander of a reconnaissance company.

2 separate Marine brigades of the Baltic Fleet.

On June 5, 1942, he was awarded the medal "For Bravery" (he was presented to the Order of the Red Star)

from the award list.:

"Comrade. N.F. Garanovsky has been working in intelligence since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Performs combat missions only perfectly. On his own initiative, he organized and led fighters into attacks many times, and by his personal example of bravery and bravery, he overwhelmingly attacked the enemy. Exactly: vill. Alekseevka, Koporye, Gostilitsy. For exemplary performance of combat missions, the brigade command was promoted to the position of commander of a reconnaissance platoon.

On February 11, 1942, in the area of Desyatskoye managed to organize the platoon's personnel under heavy mortar and rifle-machine-gun fire to perform an exemplary reconnaissance mission, perfectly reconnoitered the front line of the enemy's defense- firing points, minefields, land mines, destroyed up to ten fascists, captured a prisoner, having no casualties in his personnel, either killed or wounded. He is currently working on the organization of a platoon, which is considered the most advanced in the unit. Chief of Staff Garanovsky deserves the government award of the Order of the Red Star"

On November 18, 1943, he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad."

In 1944, Nikolai Garanovsky was a lieutenant, commander of the 161st separate reconnaissance company of the 120th Infantry Division. He has a concussion and 4 minor wounds.

From the award list:

"During the period of the division's combat operations from 21.1.44, he showed the ability to lead his unit in battle. During the performance of the assigned tasks, he showed personal courage, and by his example inspired the company's personnel to feats and accurate fulfillment of the assigned task. He captured 2 prisoners, one of them personally, without losing any personnel of his company. He deserves to be awarded the government award of the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree."

The award order was issued on February 16, 1944.

Nikolai Fyodorovich did not manage to receive this award. He died on February 2, 1944, during a battle near the village of Lizard near Luga (Leningrad region).

Lapenko Petr Markovich was born around 1900 in Yekaterinodar, in a house on Progonnaya Street, in the family of Mark Antonovich Lapenko and Matrona Demyanovna Lapenko (nee Zaitsev).
Besides him, there were four brothers and one younger sister in the family. Mark Antonovich came from a poor family, but eventually became rich and became the owner of a hotel in Goryachy Klyuch.
Peter always studied well. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of Railway Engineers. He had been to England in practice and he spoke English well.
The year of his marriage is unknown, only that his wife's name was Tatiana. Soon, a son, George, was born, who died in childhood after catching some kind of infection.
The only thing that can be said about Pyotr Markovich's civil service is that he rose to the rank of captain of the Kornilov Shock Regiment. On March 17, 1920, Yekaterinodar was occupied by the Reds. How Peter ended up in their hands is unknown to his family. Maybe he got wounded, maybe he stayed to take his family out. Everyone who could explain further events has long since died. According to his younger sister, whose descendants told the story, a man with a "scary face" brought his son's bloodstained shirt to his mother.
After a while, his father, Mark Antonovich, was also executed. Perhaps an episode has surfaced with the storage of uniforms for Kornilov units in his house.

In 1917, the Alexander Military School graduated 25 female ensigns. One died at the same time this picture was taken, during the Moscow street fighting; almost all the others went to the whites. Nine were killed in the Civil War. Two more shot themselves shortly after it ended.

1.Sisters Vera and Maria Mercier graduated from the Alexander Military School in 1917 and were promoted to the rank of ensign. From November 1917, they served in the Volunteer Army and participated in the First Kuban ("Ice") Campaign as part of the machine-gun company of the Kornilov Shock Regiment. Vera died during this campaign, while Maria continued to serve in the army and was killed in 1919 near Voronezh."

2.Eighteen-year-old Yulia Pylaeva was tortured and killed by the Bolsheviks near the village of Korenovskaya during the second Kuban campaign.

3. Zinaida Reformatskaya. The Ensign. In the Volunteer Army. She participated in the 1st Kuban campaign, then in the Alekseevsky regiment. Repeatedly wounded. In the 1st marriage, the wife of Colonel Vertogradsky, in the 2nd - Kalfa. In emigration to the USA. She died on December 16, 1968 in El Paso (USA).

4. Ensign Zinaida Gotgard was one of the first 18 girls who expressed a desire to join the Volunteer Army at the beginning of its formation. She carried out the most dangerous assignments of the intelligence department and personally of General Alekseev in the rear of the Reds. By the time of the evacuation of Crimea, no more than three or four of the first squad of female warrant officers remained alive. She served in the 2nd battery of the 1st Drozdovsky Artillery Division with the rank of second lieutenant. Killed herself in Yugoslavia, leaving her daughter. She wrote poetry.

An Ensign, she took part in the armed struggle against the Bolsheviks from the very first days of the October Revolution — in Moscow, then in the Don region. She died during the first assault on Yekaterinodar at the age of 23.
Sofia was remembered for her incredible bravery, her talent as a natural cavalryman, and her boundless cruelty towards the Bolsheviks. One of her contemporaries wrote:

"Eyewitnesses told me that it was unbearably terrifying to see a young girl galloping towards a crowd of terrified prisoners, and without dismounting from her horse, she would aim and kill one after another. And the most terrifying thing about her was her face: completely stone-faced, calm, with cold, menacing eyes."

— Amfiteatrov-Kadashev V. Pages from a Diary.

She died in General Erdeli's cavalry charge during the first assault on Yekaterinodar, in the suburb of Sady. According to the recollections of the volunteers, her horse was killed under her, but she managed to get up and run after the attackers who were galloping ahead, and at that moment she was struck by a bullet. In August 1918, after the Volunteer Army occupied Yekaterinodar, the remains of her and several other volunteers were found and buried in Yekaterinodar. The exact location of her burial is unknown.