serviceyears branch commands death_date birth_place allegiance battles birth_date rank article_title name
1903 -- 1937 russian empire army world war i 07 august 1937 minsk governorate , russian empire russian sfsr 1918 world war i 16 may 1883 komandarm 2nd class nikolai sollogub
 nikolai sollogub
nikolai sollogub

nikolai sollogub -lrb- ; may 16 , 1883 -- august 7 , 1937 -rrb- was a russian and later soviet military officer .
a komandarm 2nd class , he served during the russian civil war and the polish-bolshevik war of 1920 .
dismissed from service during the great purge , he died in 1937 .
he was born may 16 , 1883 in minsk governorate of the russian empire , to a russified branch of an old polish-lithuanian nobility , the dowoyno-sołłohub -lrb- his distant relative was a polish general stanisław sołłohub-dowoyno -rrb- .
early in his life he joined the imperial russian army and graduated from pavlov 's military school -lrb- 1903 -rrb- and the nicholas ' general staff academy -lrb- in 1910 -rrb- .
he served with distinction during the great war as staff officer of the 1st army , the 11th army and the western front .
following the russian revolution he joined the red army in june 1918 .
initially a staff officer of the northern front , he later served a variety of roles and eventually in august 1919 became the commanding officer of the 16th army facing poland .
during the polish-bolshevik war he successfully crossed the berezina with his forces and pursued the polish army to the gates of warsaw .
however , he failed to capture the city and his army was defeated in the battle of warsaw and completely disintegrated following the battle of białystok .
his staff was captured by the poles , but sollogub managed to evade capture and reached russian lines .
despite his army 's defeat he was considered one of the most skilled russian military commanders of the time and continued his military service after the peace of riga .
briefly arrested in 1922 and accused of conspiracy against soviet russia , he was nevertheless acquitted and restored to his former post in the red army .
initially a military governor of crimea , later he commanded the 5th corps , the academy of air forces and became the deputy commander of red army 's air forces .
in 1925 he became the deputy commander of frunze military academy .
arrested during the great purge by the nkvd , he died august 7 , 1937 .
