Alexey Mikhaylovich Schastny | |
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Born | Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Russian Empire | October 16, 1881
Died | July 22, 1918 Moscow, Soviet Russia | (aged 36)
Allegiance | Russian Empire Soviet Russia |
Service | Imperial Russian Navy Red Fleet |
Years of service | 1901–1918 |
Rank | Captain 1st Rank |
Commands | Baltic Fleet |
Battles / wars | Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War |
Awards | Order of St. Anna Order of Saint Stanislaus |
Alexey Mikhailovich Schastny (Russian: Алексе́й Миха́йлович Ща́стный) (1881–1918) was a Russian and Soviet naval commander. He commanded the Baltic Fleet during the Ice Cruise. He was executed on the order of the Soviet judge M. Karklin in June 1918 on the charges of organizing a dictatorship of the Baltic Fleet in separation from the Soviet Union.[1]