Nikolai Ivanov (general)

Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov
General Nikolai Ivanov
Born3 August [O.S. 22 July] 1851
Mosalsk, Kaluga Governorate, Russian Empire
Died21 January 1919(1919-01-21) (aged 67)
Novocherkassk, Russian SFSR or Odessa, Ukrainian People’s Republic
Allegiance Russian Empire
 Russian Republic
Service / branchRussian Empire Imperial Russian Army
Russian Republic White Army
Years of service1869–1919
RankGeneral of the Artillery
Commands1st Army Corps (1905–1906)
Kiev Military District (1908–1914)
Southwestern Front (1914–1916)
Petrograd Military District
Southern Army[citation needed] (White Army) (1918)
Battles / wars
Awardssee below

Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov (Russian: Николай Иудович Иванов, tr. Nikolaj Iudovič Ivanov; 3 August [O.S. 22 July] 1851 – 27 January 1919) was a Russian artillery general in the Imperial Russian Army. In July 1914, Ivanov was given command of four armies in the Southwestern Front against the Austro-Hungarian army, winning a major battle of Galicia. During the Russian Revolution of March 1917, Tsar Nicholas II ordered Ivanov to suppress the revolutionaries but as promised reinforcements failed to come to his aid, he canceled the aborted mission. In 1917, he retired but a year later took command of the White Army. In 1919, Ivanov died of typhus in Southern Russia.[1]

  1. ^ Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond by Timothy C. Dowling pp. 373-374