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Russian general (1866?1937)
Yuri Nikiforovich Danilov
Russian
:
Ю?рий Ники?форович Дани?лов
; 13 August [
O.S.
1 August] 1866 ? 3 February 1937) served as
General of the Infantry
in the
Russian Army
during
World War I
.
From 1907 to 1914, Danilov was in charge of the
Intelligence Section
of the Russian Main Staff of the
Imperial Russian Army
.
[1]
At the start of
World War I
, Danilov was appointed
Quartermaster General
for the
Imperial Russian Army
. He was known as "Danilov the Black."
[2]
He was third in command after
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich
and his
chief of staff
Nikolai Yanushkevich
.
With the
Tsar's
decision to take personal command of the army at
the front
in August 1915, both the Grand Duke and Danilov lost their positions. Appointed to the
Northern Front
, Danilov served as commander of 25th corps (1915?1916), chief of staff of the Northern Front (1916?1917), and commander of the
5th Army
(
29 April
–
9 September
1917).
After the
October Revolution
of 1917, he emigrated to
Paris, France
, where he remained until his death on 3 February 1937. He is the grandfather of
Nicholas Daniloff
who worked in the
Soviet Union
as a reporter for
U.S. News & World Report
.
References
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- ^
Secret Soldiers of the Revolution
by Raymond W. Leonard, Greenwoodpress, 1999.
[
page needed
]
- ^
Buttar, Prit (2016).
Collision of Empires, The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 373, 376.
ISBN
9781472813183
.
Works
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- Россия в мировой войне 1914?1915 гг.
? Берлин, 1924.
- German translation:
Russland im Weltkriege, 1914-1915. Jena. 1925.
- French translation:
La Russie dans la guerre mondiale (1914-1917). Traduction francaise d'Alexandre Kaznakov. Payot. 1927
- The Red Army.
Foreign Affairs
, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Oct., 1928), pp. 96?109.
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