Blucher Marshal Biography

Vasily Blucher. On March 25, the Far Eastern marshal of a strong, decisive and prudent person, a talented military man - Vasily Konstantinovich Blucher arrived in the Far East to manage a complex region standing between the young Union of the republics and external threats from the Asian region. At any time, protracted conflicts with the eastern neighbors could develop into hostilities.

On the one hand, Japan with its expansionist policy, on the other, several states that appeared in China during the civil war, from the third - the diaspora emigrated into the Celestial White Guards who dreamed of revenge. To protect against potential external threats, the authorities concentrated military forces on the Far Eastern borders, supporting them in constant combat readiness and waiting for the speed of the war.

Vasily Blucher was born in the year in the village of Barshchinka of the Yaroslavl province. There is a legend that the surname is atypical for the peasants of Yaroslavl, - received the grandfather of Vasily Konstantinovich: when he returned from the war of the year with a large number of awards and medals, the landowner jokingly compared him to the Prussian Field Marshal Blucher.

Subsequently, the nickname of the serf was a family surname. Vasily Konstantinovich Blucher. USSR, E years. From the funds of the Museum of the History of the Far East named after V., according to the official biography, in the years Vasily Blucher worked in St. Petersburg and Moscow at different enterprises. From everywhere he was fired for participating in the underground activities of the Bolshevik party and numerous rallies.

In the year, Blucher was drafted into the Russian Imperial Army and fought in the ranks of the GO infantry Kostroma regiment for two years. He was awarded two St. George Crosses, one St. George’s medal and made to non-commissioned officers for courage in battles, and then dismissed for health reasons. Blucher did not stay long in the rear: he participated in revolutionary events from their very beginning and became one of the outstanding red military leaders.

As a commissar and commander of the Red Guard detachments, he took part in the battles against the Belocazatsky Ataman Dutov in the south of the Urals. For successful actions in the rear of the Kolchak army in the fall of the year, Vasily Blucher, for the first time in the history of the Soviet state, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Komsomol of the 1st Division of the People's Army Army of the Far Eastern Republic, who took Vladivostok in the year.

In May, in Vladivostok, with the support of the Japanese forces, the White Guard Revolution took place: the Dionysius brothers and Spiridon Merkulov overthrew the Soviet power in the city and announced their readiness to achieve the same throughout the country. Here, after participating in the battles with the Wrangel Army in Crimea, Vasily Blucher was sent in the year. In June, he became the Minister of War of the Far Eastern Republic and the Commander-in-Chief of the People's-revolutionary army of the FER.

As the commander of the army of the Far Eastern Republic, Blucher took part in the defeat of Baron Ungern’s detachments in Mongolia, and also actively participated in negotiations with the Japanese in the city of Dyren Dalyan, during which it became known that the White Guards from Primorye began an offensive towards Krasnoye Khabarovsk. Fighters of the People's Army Army in the Minnoye town of Vladivostok.

Photographer - L. Vladivostok, year.

Blucher personally led the defeat of the White Guard armies. He owns the victory over the Merkulovsky detachments during the Volochaev offensive operation - the movement of the White Guard units was broken, the army of the Far Eastern Republic was able to approach Vladivostok. After that, Blucher was recalled to Moscow, and Jerome Kuzhevich took his place. From the years, Blucher served in the Petrograd Military District, and from over the years he performed the functions of a military adviser in China under the government of Sun Yatsen.

After that, due to health problems, he returned to Moscow for a while. The photographer - A. In the year, Blucher took the position of commander of a special Far Eastern army, which faced the task of restraining the aggressive eastern neighbors of the USSR. Under the leadership of Vasily Konstantinovich, Soviet forces defeated Chinese troops during the battles for the China-East Railway of the year.

In the year, he commanded the defeat of the Japanese during the battles on Lake Hassan, personally being in the war zone. Despite all the merits, in the same year Blucher was arrested and accused of creating a counter -revolutionary anti -Soviet conspiracy. Vasily Konstantinovich, who in the year became one of the first marshals of the Soviet Union, was only three years later, was scored to death during torture by investigators of the People’s Commissariat of the Interior.

Blucher was posthumously rehabilitated in the year. In Primorye, the streets in Ussuriysk and Bolshoi Kamen, a school in Vladivostok, the railway station and other facilities are named after him. In the title photo - the arrival of V. Blucher in Vladivostok. Photographer - N. State united.