Afrikan P. Bogaewsky

Afrikan Petrovich Bogaewsky (Russian: Африка́н Петро́вич Богае́вский), 8 January 1873, in Stanitsa Kamenskaya – October 1934, in Paris), from the Don Cossacks family of Bogaewskich. He was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army when he was also Ataman of Don Republic.

First World War

Between 1909 and 1914, he was Chief of Staff of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire). By April 7, 1917, he was Commander of the 1st Transbaikalian Cossack Division, and in the summer of 1917, Commander of the 1st Guards Cavalry Division. In August 1917, he was Deputy Chief of Staff of the 4th Cavalry Corps.

Russian Civil War
Presentation of an award to General Bogaevsky in Novocherkassk, July 1919

After the October Revolution, Bogaewky travelled from Kiev to the Don where he arrived in December 1917. He participated in the First Kuban Campaign and became leader of the 2nd brigade of the Volunteer Army.

Between May 1918 and January 1919, he was part of the leadership of the Don Army under Ataman Pyotr Krasnov.
In February 1919, he replaced Krasnov as Ataman of the Don Cossacks, a title he would hold until his death.
He fought with Denikin and Wrangel against the Bolsheviks and was evacuated from the Crimea in November 1920.

He lived in Constantinople, Sofia and Belgrade, but settled in Paris in 1923.
He died there of a heart attack on October 21, 1934. He was buried on October 28 in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.

Bogaewsky was awarded Order of Prince Danilo I and a number of other decorations.[1]

Writings
  • Afrikan P. Bogaewsky. Ice March 1918. Publ. in New-York. 1963.

See also

References
  1. Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 626.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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