Армия Булак-Балаховича в Бресте / The army of Bulak-Balakhovich in Brest - 1920
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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2018 · Travel & Events
Гражданская война в России Армия Булак-Балаховича в Бресте. 1920 г. The Civil War in Russia The army of Bulak-Balakhovich in Brest. 1920 Music: Impromptu Op.14 No.1 by A. Scriabin, played here by Alexey Chernov Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz was a notable general, military commander and veteran of World War I, Russian Civil War, Estonian War of Independence, Polish-Bolshevik War and the Invasion of Poland at the start of World War II. He was born 10 February 1883 in Meyszty, a small village in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Braslaw Raion in Belarus). Stanisław had two brothers and six sisters. His parents were servants to a local Belorussian landowner.. After the outbreak of World War I Bułak-Bałachowicz joined the Russian Imperial army. As a person of noble roots, he was drafted as an ensign to the 2nd Leyb-Courland Infantry Regiment. However, unlike many of his colleagues who were awarded the basic NCO grades for their noble ancestry only, Bułak-Bałachowicz proved himself as a skilled field commander and was quickly promoted. By December 1914, only four months after he entered the army, he was given command over a group of Cossack volunteers, of whom he formed a cavalry squadron. Together with the 2nd Cavalry Division he fought on the western front, most notably in the area of Sochaczew near Warsaw. During the Russian Civil War, he became a General of the White Army and one of the leaders of armed resistance to the Bolsheviks in Belarus. Under an agreement with the Belarusian People's Republic (created in 1918) Bulak-Balakhovich was recognized as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Belarus and ordered the formation of the Belarusian People's Army…..
