Monument to General Brusilov
The First World War left an indelible mark on the history and memory of the Russian people. The Great Russian Empire ceased to exist. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people and officers fell on the battlefield and in the rear.
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Not every commander can proudly say that a decisive battle was named after him.
But the operation, which went down in history as the “Brusilovsky breakthrough,” was not ignored even in the West. In European textbooks it is given a separate chapter. Jan Neumann and Stanislav Odnovalov, the creators of the monument, wanted to convey the key moment of the battle as accurately as possible. That’s why they depicted the legendary commander intently studying a map of the area. It was decided to install the sculpture near a military school in St. Petersburg, where the general once studied and taught. Alexey Alekseevich Brusilov is a cavalry general of Russian citizenship, an honored figure of the Soviet Union.
He was born into a family of hereditary military men, completed his studies in the Corps of Pages in 1879, and took part in the war with the Turks in the Caucasus. From 1906 he commanded a cavalry division, then became the head of the 12th Army Corps. At the height of the First World War, Brusilov commanded the entire southwestern front, which broke through the Austro-German cordon.
This was the most ingenious operation of the commander. The strategy was thought out to the smallest detail; its main feature was the simultaneous offensive at different points of the front. The plan was kept secret until the very last moment in order to surprise the enemy and disperse his forces with one blow. This was accomplished brilliantly on May 22, 1916. By July of the same year, a breakthrough was made 160 km deep into enemy territory on a 550 km stretch of terrain. The losses of the Austro-Hungarian troops amounted to about 1.5 million people. However, due to depleted reserves and insufficient support, General Brusilov was forced to take defensive positions instead of attacking. And yet, the famous breakthrough played a role during the fierce war, and the general himself was awarded the St. George’s Arms, encrusted with diamonds, for his merits and valor. The commander died in 1926 in Moscow at the age of 73 from acute pneumonia.
But the operation, which went down in history as the “Brusilovsky breakthrough,” was not ignored even in the West. In European textbooks it is given a separate chapter. Jan Neumann and Stanislav Odnovalov, the creators of the monument, wanted to convey the key moment of the battle as accurately as possible. That’s why they depicted the legendary commander intently studying a map of the area. It was decided to install the sculpture near a military school in St. Petersburg, where the general once studied and taught. Alexey Alekseevich Brusilov is a cavalry general of Russian citizenship, an honored figure of the Soviet Union.
He was born into a family of hereditary military men, completed his studies in the Corps of Pages in 1879, and took part in the war with the Turks in the Caucasus. From 1906 he commanded a cavalry division, then became the head of the 12th Army Corps. At the height of the First World War, Brusilov commanded the entire southwestern front, which broke through the Austro-German cordon.
This was the most ingenious operation of the commander. The strategy was thought out to the smallest detail; its main feature was the simultaneous offensive at different points of the front. The plan was kept secret until the very last moment in order to surprise the enemy and disperse his forces with one blow. This was accomplished brilliantly on May 22, 1916. By July of the same year, a breakthrough was made 160 km deep into enemy territory on a 550 km stretch of terrain. The losses of the Austro-Hungarian troops amounted to about 1.5 million people. However, due to depleted reserves and insufficient support, General Brusilov was forced to take defensive positions instead of attacking. And yet, the famous breakthrough played a role during the fierce war, and the general himself was awarded the St. George’s Arms, encrusted with diamonds, for his merits and valor. The commander died in 1926 in Moscow at the age of 73 from acute pneumonia.
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