en Feofil Egorovich Meyendorf

Feofil Egorovich Meyendorf
Feofil Egorovich Meyendorf
Birth name	Bogdan Theophil von Meyendorff
Born	4 August 1838
Died	18 October 1919 (aged 81)
Allegiance	Russian Empire
Service / branch	Imperial Russian Army
Commands	2nd Cavalry Division; 1st Army Corps
Battles / wars	Caucasian War; Russo-Turkish War; Russo-Japanese War

Baron Feofil Egorovich (von) Meyendorf (Russian: Феофи́л Его́рович (фон) Мейендо́рф; German: Bogdan Theophil Freiherr^[1] von Meyendorff; 4 August 1838 – 18 October 1919) was an Imperial Russian military leader of Baltic German descent. He fought in the Caucasus and against the Ottoman Empire and the Empire of Japan.

Awards

Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov), 3rd class, 1861
Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class, 1861
Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov), 2nd class, 1862
Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th class, 1869
Order of Saint Vladimir, 3rd class, 1870
Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov), 1st class, 1878
Gold Sword for Bravery, 1878
Order of Saint Anna, 1st class, 1883
Order of Saint Vladimir, 2nd class, 1889
Order of the White Eagle (Russian Empire), 1894
Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky, 1901
2nd Gold Sword for Bravery, 1905
Order of Saint George, 4th degree, 1908
Order of Saint Vladimir, 1st class, 1910

Children

son Nikolai Meyendorff (1887-1969)

Preceded by	Commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division 1884-1892	Succeeded by
Preceded by Mikhail Pavlovich Danilov	Commander of the 1st Army Corps 1896–1905	Succeeded by Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov

References

^ Regarding personal names: Freiherr is a former title (translated as 'Baron'). In Germany since 1919, it forms part of family names. The feminine forms are Freifrau and Freiin.

Sources

"Feofil Egorovich Meyendorf". «Russian army in a Great war» project.
Под ред. В. Ф. Новицкого и др (ed.), "15", Военная энциклопедия, Saint Petersburg: т-во И. В. Сытина
Милорадович Г. А. Список лиц свиты их величеств с царствования императора Петра I по 1886 год. СПб., 1886
Список генералам по старшинству на 1886 год. СПб., 1886

[1] Regarding personal names: Freiherr is a former title (translated as 'Baron'). In Germany since 1919, it forms part of family names. The feminine forms are Freifrau and Freiin.

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