Kirpichnikov Joseph where he was born. The February Revolution was made by a werewolf

The February Revolution was made by a werewolf

First non-commissioned officer Timofey Kirpichnikov became the leader of the uprising, and then ran over to the whites

Exactly nine decades ago, these very days, the capital of Russia was boiling and seething. After an armed uprising in Petrograd, Nicholas II abdicated the throne. As a result of the bourgeois revolution, the Provisional Government came to power. The revolutionary October, however, overshadowed the heroes of February for a long time, who remained unknown to the common people. Few people know that Russia owes the February bourgeois revolution to a simple non-commissioned officer Timofey Kirpichnikov.

Soldiers shot over their heads

Unusual exhibits related to the events of February and March 1917 can be seen these days in the Museum of Political History. Unique documents and photographs transport visitors to the Kshesinskaya mansion 90 years ago. Desperate people quit their jobs and took to the streets demanding bread. In such conditions, the commander of the troops of the Petrograd Military District, General Khabalov, increases the garrison of the capital to 200 thousand people and gives the army to help the police. On Khabalov's order, the soldiers should "stop at nothing to establish order in the capital." In simple terms, the military units were taken out into the streets in order to shoot the insurgent people.

According to the head of the scientific and educational department of the Museum of Political History Andrei Misko, the stake was placed on the units of the Life Guards, distinguished by their exceptional loyalty to the Tsar.

But General Khabalov and his crowned boss did not take into account several points at once, - says Andrei Anatolyevich. - The guards themselves have been at the front for a long time. In the capital there were only reserve battalions, formed according to different principles. And the people themselves after the 1905 revolution have changed seriously. The order to shoot at their own people - women, old people and children - could not cause anything but indignation.

The most terrible events unfolded in Petrograd on February 26, 1917. A huge crowd of townspeople came out to Znamenskaya Square. Units of the Volyn and Pavlovsk regiments arrived there together with the police. The officers gave orders to the soldiers to shoot at the crowd. Those fired only single shots, and even then over the heads of the audience. Then the officers took up arms themselves. According to eyewitnesses, Captain Lashkevich, who commanded the massacre, personally shot several dozen people. On the same day, soldiers of the Volyn regiment took part in another police special operation - on Nevsky Prospekt. This time the officers did not let them shoot over their heads.

The rebels executed the assassin captain

Non-commissioned officer of the Volyn regiment Timofey Kirpichnikov was among the participants in these sad events. As a senior sergeant-major, he was directly involved in the training of soldiers, managed to visit the front and enjoyed authority among his subordinates. The terrible massacre on Znamenskaya Square shocked the young non-commissioned officer to the core. At the evening formation, the soldiers of the Volyn regiment were announced that they would go to the next joint operation with the police tomorrow morning. But Kirpichnikov, like many soldiers, did not want to shoot at the hungry demonstrators. That night, Timofey Ivanovich had a conversation with a warrant officer of the same regiment Georgy Astakhov and a soldier Alexei Yukharev. Together they decided to take revenge on the executioner-commander and take the soldiers out into the street.

At 5 o'clock on February 27, Kirpichnikov raised the soldiers subordinate to him, fed, armed and built before the arrival of the authorities. The soldiers, mostly recruited from the peasants, quickly succumbed to the persuasion of the non-commissioned officer. Head-captain Lashkevich, who was shooting the townspeople, was decided to kill. By prior arrangement, when the commander appeared, the soldiers had to shout "Hurray!" instead of "Hello!" and pounce on the staff captain. Apparently, Lashkevich was ready for such a turn of events. The head-captain managed to escape and jump out onto the stairs. Once on the street, he ran along the parade ground, but could not go far. The soldiers killed him with shots from the windows.

The barracks of the Petrograd garrison units in 1917 were located close to each other. Going out into the street, the soldiers of the Volyn regiment, led by Timofey Kirpichnikov, went to the locations of the neighboring units. Shooting officers and sentries, they managed to bring thousands of soldiers to the streets. Gathering a huge detachment, Kirpichnikov and his assistants stormed the Pretrial Detention House on Shpalernaya Street (the current FSB detention center) and the Arsenal located near the Peter and Paul Fortress. A huge amount of weapons was in the hands of the rebels. Almost immediately, factory workers and ordinary criminals joined them. Soon, the buildings of the District Court, the Police Archives and several police stations were destroyed and burned. The next day, almost everything state institutions ceased their activities, and those who worked in them simply fled.

Kutepov put the volunteer against the wall

Timofey Kirpichnikov immediately became a national hero. The new commander of the troops of the Petrograd Military District, Kornilov, personally presented him with the award - the St. George Cross of the 4th degree - and made him a ensign. Kirpichnikov continued to serve in the units that supported the Provisional Government. During the April Crisis, he again brought soldiers to the streets, paralyzing the actions of the Bolsheviks.

While serving in Petrograd, he also met the October coup. At the moment when General Krasnov was advancing on Petrograd, Kirpichnikov tried to raise a soldier's revolt again. This time he called on the soldiers to come to the barricades not against the tsarist regime, but against the Bolsheviks. This plan has failed completely. He managed to raise only the students of the cadet schools to the uprising.

The revolt of the cadets was brutally suppressed, and Timofey Kirpichnikov managed to escape to the Don. There he planned to join the ranks of the forming white army. The last decision turned out to be fatal for the hero of the bourgeois revolution. Wanting to get into the service, he came to the famous leader of the white movement A.P. Kutepov. In February 1917, he was just in Petrograd and tried to restore at least some order. General Kutepov wrote in detail about what happened next in his memoirs.

“Once a young officer came to my headquarters and told me quite cheekily that he had come to the Volunteer Army to fight the Bolsheviks“ for the freedom of the people, ”which the Bolsheviks trample upon,” writes the White Guard general. - I asked him where he had been up to now and what he had been doing, the officer told me that he was one of the first "fighters for the freedom of the people" and that in Petrograd he took an active part in the revolution, being one of the first against the old regime: "

Kutepov did not think long about what to do next. Through the officer on duty, he summoned a detachment and ordered the immediate execution of Timofey Kirpichnikov. Where exactly the leader of the February bourgeois revolution was buried, no one in Russia still knows.

Sergey Andreev

A very respectable and respected historian V.Zh. Tsvetkov. Which is both unexpected and pleasant. It was this very phenomenon that prompted me to try to make out a little one of the episodes - moreover, significant episodes of the events of February 1917. Fortunately, the anniversary of the February Revolution is already on the way.
This very event is, on the one hand, the uprising in the Volyn regiment on February 27, 1917, accompanied by the assassination of Captain Lashkevich, and which was a turning point in the entire revolution. Another side of this event is the subsequent awarding of non-commissioned officer Kirpichnikov by Lieutenant General Kornilov - the commander of the Petrograd Military District. Those. the essence of the problem lies in trying to figure out what happened in the Volyn regiment and what is the objective role of Kirpichnikov, as well as what Kornilov awarded Kirpichnikov for.

So - this is what the quite semi-official Soviet historian L.M. Spirin (Russia 1917 - M .: Politizdat, 1987)
“The first to go over to the side of the rebels was the training team of the Volyn regiment, which yesterday fired at the demonstrators on Znamenskaya Square. Captain Lashevich, who arrived in the second company early in the morning, was killed by Timofei Kirpichnikov to lead the soldiers to shoot the workers again. street and joined the soldiers of the Preobrazhensky and Lithuanian regiments. "

And here is how the already mentioned V.Zh. Tsvetkov:
"The story of TI Kirpichnikov's awarding became another myth in Kornilov's biography dating back to 1917. It is believed that the general awarded him for organizing a riot and for the murder of Captain Lashkevich, the officer, head of the training team of the Volyn regiment of the Volyn regiment. Facts show otherwise. .Order for the district No. 120 of April 1, 1917.
Kornilov awarded senior non-commissioned officer Timofey Kirpichnikov with the St. George Cross of the 4th degree “for the fact that on February 27, becoming the head of the battalion's training team, he was the first to fight for the freedom of the people and the creation of the New System, and despite rifle and machine-gun fire in the barracks area 6th Reserve Sapper Battalion and Liteiny Bridge, with an example of personal courage, he took a soldier of his battalion with him and seized machine guns from the police. "
Of course, formally, it can be argued that Kirpichnikov received an award not for exploits at the front, but for counteracting the police, who were doing their duty. But the situation with the "police machine guns" is not clear. The investigation did not find any "traces" of the police "shooting at the people" on Liteiny Prospekt. During March-April 1917, the newspapers published announcements - appeals to citizens, with a request to testify about machine gunners on the roofs of houses. Furthermore.
The investigation, which was led by the Extraordinary Investigative Commission to investigate the abuses of former ministers, chief managers and other senior officials, found that the machine guns that fired at the "people", by their numbers, were not listed in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The police, indeed, were not found, but according to the testimony of the general of infantry A.P. Kutepov, who commanded the consolidated guards detachment on Liteiny Prospekt on February 27, his soldiers found the "workers of the artillery plant and the Vyborg district" sitting behind machine guns and "two other people who spoke poorly in Russian, who, when interviewed, showed that they were supposedly Finns." “No machine guns,” Kutepov recalled, “served by the police on the roofs of houses, and I didn’t see the police in the area assigned to me…”. It turns out that Kirpichnikov and his training team acted against the revolutionaries, for which the non-commissioned officer was awarded ... (53).
The real killer of the officer remained unknown (Lashkevich was killed by "one of the volunteers" (?) With a shot in the back from the attic of the barracks) (54). "

-So, therefore, "the facts show otherwise" ...? Well, let's read another Soviet source for the full pungency of the bouquet - K.I. Pazhetnykh. Volyntsi in February days. Memories. The manuscript collection of the IGV No. 488 (link to the publication History of the Civil War vol.1 - M .: OGIZ, 1935):
“Non-commissioned officer Kirpichnikov read us an order - tomorrow to build a team again at 7 o'clock in the morning. At this time, eighteen people gathered in a dark remote corner of the barracks - more active privates, several platoon and detached commanders from lower ranks, heatedly discussing the situation, and all eighteen irrevocably decided: tomorrow we will turn everything in our own way! Outlined a program of action: to build a team not at 7 o'clock in the morning, as commanded by captain Lashkevich, but at 6 o'clock, during this time to attract the whole team to our side ...
The light had already dawned, when all eighteen were quiet, in a few minutes they went to their places.
On February 27, at 6 am, a team of 350 people was already built. Kirpichnikov spoke, outlined general position and explained what to do and what to do.
Agitation was almost not required. The propagandized soldiers seemed to be just waiting for this, and all the soldiers expressed their firm consent to support the workers.
- Death, so death, - they said - but we will not shoot at our own.
At this time, the clatter of spurs was heard in the corridor.
The team became alert and froze for a minute.
Warrant officer Kolokolov, a former student recently sent to the regiment, entered. The team responded to his greeting in the usual way. Commander Lashkevich followed him in. Everyone was alert. There was silence.
To the greeting "great, brothers!" burst out "hurray" - as we agreed earlier.
When the “hurray” died down, Lashkevich seemed to have sensed something, but he repeats his greeting again. And again a powerful and formidable "hurray" is heard.
Lashkevich turns to non-commissioned officer Markov and angrily asks what this means.
Markov, throwing the rifle on his hand, firmly replies: "Hurray" is a signal to disobey your orders! "
The butts clattered on the asphalt floor of the barracks, the bolts crackled. "Go away while I'm safe!" shouted the soldiers.
Lashkevich tries to shout: "Attention!" Nobody listens to his commands. Lashkevich asks to restore order in order to read out the telegram of “His Majesty Nicholas II” received through General Khabalov, but this had no effect on the soldiers.
Having lost hope to pacify the team, Lashkevich and Kolokolov ran out the door. In the corridor they met Warrant Officer Vorontsov-Velyaminov, and all three fled. Markov and Orlov quickly opened the window in the window, set their rifles, and when the three officers drew level with the window, two shots rang out.
Lashkevich, like a layer, stretched out at the gate. Other officers rushed through the gate and immediately reported the mutiny to the regiment headquarters.
Taking the cashier and the banner, all the officers immediately left the regiment.
The path was clear. The entire detachment under the command of Kirpichnikov went out into the yard.
A volley upward signaled the alarm. The arrested were freed from the guardhouse. Immediately, delegates were sent to the nearest teams with a proposal to join our rebellious unit. The first to respond without hesitation was a 1,000-strong company of evacuees and joined us. In a short time, a preparatory training team joined in. "

So, therefore, Kirpichnikov really was not Lashkevich's killer, he was only the organizer and leader of the uprising itself, and undoubtedly it was for this that he was awarded the "revolutionary general Kornilov."
The names of the killers of Lashkevich are well known, they were two non-commissioned officers of the same regiment, Markov and Orlov, who, by the way, fired not "through the attic", but from the window of the barracks.
Regarding the aforementioned machine guns, which most likely didn’t exist, they were "required" to formally justify the awarding of Kirpichnikov - they were awarded "Georgies" only for differences in battle, which, incidentally, makes this whole episode even more ambiguous for Kornilov. It seemed like I wanted (required) to reward, but it seemed - formally and for nothing. According to (unfortunately) a very widespread tradition in the Republic of Ingushetia, this "problem" was solved by ordinary eyewash.

We fully understand the political and psychological tendency of uv. Tsvetkov to "whitewash" the gene. Kornilov, to show him completely unsympathetic to both revolutionary ideas and revolutionary "excesses". However, just the same FACTS - they say something completely different. Kornilov rewarded Kirpichnikov for organizing the uprising in the reserve battalion of the Volyn regiment, no other merits for non-commissioned officer Kirpichnikov simply did not appear.

The extent to which political engagement can bring a completely sober and competent person can be seen here, this is the same Tsvetkov - so to speak, "the continuation of the banquet":
“But the imagination created a very terrible picture, in which the 'traitor-general' Kornilov almost himself prepared an armed revolt of the substitutes, gladly arrested the Tsar's Family, and then also awarded all the revolutionary killers. Alas ... To slander a military, honored warrior- patriot, Knight of St. George, it turns out today to be much easier and safer (probably) than to write about the true instigators of the Petrograd revolt - the city committees of the Bolshevik and Socialist Revolutionary parties, the Vyborg district committee of the Bolshevik Party, German intelligence agents, deceived Petrograd workers, all free and involuntary accomplices of the February revolution of 1917 (55). "
-In my opinion, comments are unnecessary ...

The motto of the Russian "musketeers" and uh ... the Russian national team players was born in the troubled days of February 1917.
On February 26, the machine-gun team of the Volyn regiment was sent to disperse the demonstration on Nevsky Prospekt. We moved out, came, installed a machine gun.
At the same time, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, civilians ran up to the gates of the barracks of the reserve battalion of the Life Guards of the Pavlovsky regiment and began to shout that the horse guards and soldiers were trampling and shooting the demonstration of the hungry, demanding bread. The soldiers of the 4th company knocked out the doors of the Zeichhaus, dismantled the rifles, lined up, went out the gates and asked the citizens to show: "where?" The boys from the crowd volunteered to see off. We moved along the Catherine Canal to Nevsky Prospect. A confused crowd, in which there were many women and children, walked from Nevsky towards them, on the other side of the canal. The crowd carried the banner "Give me some bread!" Suddenly, horse policemen drove out from Mikhailovskaya Square to the same side of the canal and began to shoot straight into the crowd without warning. Pavlovtsy immediately hit the blood of wild animals, they crumbled into a chain and shot and dispersed the police in one gulp (V. Baranovskaya. Soldiers-Pavlovtsy. L. 1968, p. 26-27).
A crowd of workers was walking towards the machine-gun command of the Volyn regiment. Frequent shots were heard from the direction of the Catherine Canal. Someone gleefully shouted that the rioters were being "treated".
The workers did not slow down and shouted: "Down with the war! Down with the Tsar!" The officer ordered to open fire. The workers heard and shouted to the soldiers: "Shoot the bastards at your brothers!" The squad leader refused to obey the order. The officer declared him arrested and himself rushed to the machine gun. The soldiers pushed him back and immediately the team was surrounded by workers. The workers called the soldiers to join them, but the soldiers only took off the machine gun, took their officer by the arms and went to the barracks.
In the evening, the captain of Volyntsev Lashkevich lined up the soldiers and announced that the machine-gun team had "disgraced the sacred name of the Volyn regiment" and added that tomorrow they would "make up for the shameful stain."
Late at night, the commander of the first platoon, non-commissioned officer Timofey Kirpichnikov entered the barracks

and said: "Guys, there is such an opinion tomorrow not to pacify the workers, to refuse."
The soldiers replied that they agreed.
In the morning, Lashkevich came to the barracks, greeted loudly and ordered to build. In response, the soldiers shouted "Hurray!" In response to the officer's question "What does this mean?", The soldiers of the machine-gun command shouted in chorus: "Enough blood!" and went to the parade ground, where the soldiers of the Volyn regiment and the neighboring Lithuanian and Preobrazhensky regiments began to run. On the parade ground Kirpichnikov shouted: "Comrades, the work has begun, we must go out into the street and help the workers. Take more cartridges, do not shoot in vain and be firm on your oath - one for all and all for one!"
The soldiers killed the resisting officers, dismantled their rifles and went to the Vyborg side to the sound of the Marseillaise.

Kirpichnikova is quoted in the memoirs of the soldiers of the training team of the Vyborg regiment P.T. Potapenko. Kirpichnikov did not watch a movie about the three musketeers, he did not hear about Berezutsky and Ignashevich. Potapenko too. Memories are given in the article by E.D. Chermensky "The beginning of the second russian revolution"- History of the USSR, 1987 # 1, p.95. With reference to the funds of the former LPA and CPA IML-f. 70, op.3, d.564, l.5
If anything - for literary quotations kick it.

For which the whites shot the implacable fighter against Bolshevism, Kerensky's favorite and the creator of the February victory

In the evening of February 26, 1917, Alexander Kerensky ruthlessly stated: "The revolution has failed!" But the coming night was resolved with a great surprise. The revolution, about which no one spoke and which no one expected, has happened!

How? Why? Where did the people come from on the street and by what magic wave came the Volyn regiment, which played a decisive role, from the barracks?

The regiment was brought out by the tsarist non-commissioned officer Timofey Kirpichnikov, whom Kerensky would pathetically call "soldier of the revolution number one."

The darling of fate, magically lifted up by the revolution. And ruthlessly crushed by her.

If you believe the reports of the newspapers of the time, Kirpichnikov fought on the Austrian front, was wounded in the arm, after the hospital he ended up in spare parts in Petrograd. He served in the second company of the Volyn regiment. Not very friendly with discipline. But, as a sniff of gunpowder, he was popular among the soldiers.

In the archives, evidence from the bagpipe Pazhetnykh about a key episode of the February events was found:

"On February 27, at 6:00 am, a team of 350 people was already formed. Kirpichnikov spoke, outlined the general situation and explained how to act and what to do ... At this time, the clanking of spurs was heard in the corridor. The team was alert and for a minute Warrant officer Kolokolov, a former student who had recently arrived in the regiment, entered. The command responded to his greeting in the usual manner. Commander Lashkevich followed him in. (Gold glasses, unpleasant glass!) Everyone was alert. Silence reigned. "hurray" burst out - so we agreed earlier. (According to the charter: "I wish you good health, your honor!") When the "hurray" died down, Lashkevich seemed to have sensed something, but he repeats the greeting again. And again the mighty and formidable is heard again. " Hurray ". Lashkevich turns to non-commissioned officer Markov and angrily asks what this means. Markov, throwing a rifle on his hand (with a bayonet at the officer!), firmly and defiantly replies:" Hurray "is a signal to disobey your orders!"

In the next instant Kirpichnikov tore a pistol from its holster and fired at the officer.

We can only assume what was happening in the soul of the non-commissioned officer who broke the oath. According to the laws of wartime, he was subject to execution. Perhaps that is why his speech to the soldiers was so emotional. Slogans do not need to be invented, they are on everyone's lips: beat the officers, save the revolution, the king is a bloodsucker, the queen is German!

In an electrified atmosphere, the gust worked. They followed Kirpichnikov.

So the Volyn regiment was on the street.

The rest does not fit well into the picture of a heroic epic, soon composed. As it was established, the Volyn soldiers at first did not even think about the glory of the revolutionary pioneers. The murder of officer Lashkevich took place two blocks from the parliamentary citadel - the Tauride Palace. And they went to the Duma to surrender and ask for leniency, fearing a tribunal for murder.

But on the way, the soldier's column was overgrown with a crowd, the first revolutionary fraternization of people with guns and civilians began ...

We must pay tribute to Kerensky, he reacted instantly:

“I saw a soldier surrounded by a crowd of protesters lined up on the other side of the street. They were somewhat fussy and hesitant to stand in ranks, feeling insecure without officers, in an unfamiliar environment. I watched them for several minutes, and then suddenly, as I was, without a hat, without a coat, in a jacket, I ran through the main entrance to the soldiers whom I had been waiting for so long with hope ... And so we went to the "storm" of the guardhouse. It turned out that the guards were no longer there, fled before we appeared. I explained to some noncom - to the officer, where to place the sentries, and returned to the big Duma hall, already packed with deputies, soldiers, civilians ... I remember, signing some papers, I could not help laughing.

Why are you laughing, Alexander Fedorovich? one reporter asked. - Don't you know what's in this moment are you omnipotent in Russia?

Well, it was good to hear that. "

"Some non-commissioned officer" - Timofey Kirpichnikov. What do we know about a person who found himself at the epicenter of historical events and played a major role in them?

He was born in 1892. The village of Dmitrovka in the Saransk district of the Penza province, a simple peasant family, from the Old Believers ... From the traditions of the old faith, which inherited the spiritual power and flame of Archpriest Avvakum, the revolutionary spirit of Timothy? One can only guess. Having mastered the beginnings of literacy in a public school, he worked as a steam locomotive fireman, having reached draft age even before the start of the First World War, he ended up in the active army ...

By the time the fate of the non-commissioned officer wounded at the front made a puzzling turn, he was only 25 years old. As much as the staff-captain Lashkevich killed by him. Kirpichnikov, of course, does not think about his imminent death. So far, he and his Volynian soldiers, who came to the Tauride Palace in the afternoon of February 27, 1917, are declared the "Army of the Revolution".

And instantly the transformed Kerensky, without hesitation, sends an "army" to free the socialists who were under trial and investigation: the prison on Shpalernaya is just a few minutes' walk ...

The morning after the revolution, Kirpichnikov woke up famous. His portraits were hung on fences and displayed in glass cases. Yesterday's non-commissioned officer was invited to become a member of the soldiers 'and workers' Petrograd Soviet. Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky publicly called him "soldier of the revolution number one" and came up with a revolutionary award for his "protégé" - the Russian St. George cross on a red bow. And the "first general of the revolution" Lavr Kornilov, commander (since March 2) of the troops of the Petrograd military district, personally handing the cross to Timothy, announced that he had been awarded an officer rank:

"For the fact that on February 27, becoming the head of the training team of the battalion, he was the first to begin the struggle for the freedom of the people and the creation of the New System, and, despite the rifle and machine-gun fire in the area of \u200b\u200bthe barracks of the 6th reserve Sapper Battalion and Liteiny Bridge, he was carried away by an example of personal courage. a soldier of his battalion and captured the machine guns from the police. "

The police did not have machine guns: they did not rely on the state. The revolution composed its first fairy tales. And she created symbols.

Perhaps the most striking of them in the spring of 1917 was Timofey Kirpichnikov.

He was now seen in many parts of Petrograd: he continued to actively rouse the masses of soldiers and workers to "fight the enemies of the revolution," evoking the legitimate hatred of the latter. “... I have not seen a more disgusting person. His small gray eyes running around on the sides, the same as those of Milyukov, with an expression of something predatory, his manner of behaving when, carried away by his story, he accepted theatrical poses, his immensely impudent appearance and swagger - all this produced an extremely disgusting impression, which I am unable to convey ... " ...

But among the people Timofey Kirpichnikov remained almost an epic hero. During the "April crisis", when the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, first tried to encroach on absolute ownership of the country, the "first soldier of the revolution" again brought soldiers to the streets. And he helped the Provisional Government - also temporarily - to paralyze the contenders for power.

Very soon this will have a fatal effect on the fate of Kirpichnikov.

General Kutepov's account

He will meet the October coup in the service of the Provisional Government. At the moment of the offensive of General Krasnov on Petrograd, Kirpichnikov will try to organize a soldier's revolt again - this time against the Bolsheviks. But this time it will fail completely: only the boys from the cadets' schools were raised. Their resistance will be brutally suppressed, and Timofey Kirpichnikov flees to the Don ...

The fact that the hero of the bourgeois revolution was a man far from wisdom is proved by the denouement of his short revolutionary career. Kirpichnikov planned to join the ranks of the forming White Army. It probably did not even occur to him that the first fighter of the revolution was the first enemy for the counter-revolution ...

Once in the location of General A.P. Kutepova, the arrogant "soldier of the revolution number one" began to insist on a personal meeting with the commander. Kutepov told, already in exile, about this strange meeting. His words were written down by General E.I. Dostovalov. Kirpichnikov's surname does not appear in the story, but there is no doubt about who it is.

“I recall the story of General Kutepov, typical of the mood of the insurgent officers, from the early days of the Volunteer Army, which he liked to repeat and which invariably aroused the general sympathy of the audience.

Once, - said Kutepov, - a young officer came to my headquarters, who quite casually told me that he had come to the Volunteer Army to fight the Bolsheviks "for the freedom of the people", which the Bolsheviks trample on. I asked him where he had been up to now and what he had been doing, the officer told me that he was one of the first "fighters for the freedom of the people" and that in Petrograd he took an active part in the revolution, being one of the first against the old regime. When the officer wanted to leave, I ordered him to stay and, having called the officer on duty, sent for a detachment. The young officer became agitated, turned pale and began to ask why I was delaying him. You will see now, I said, and when the squad arrived, I ordered the immediate execution of this "freedom fighter."

Kirpichnikov was taken away behind the railway embankment. They took and destroyed all documents and newspaper clippings with which he used to confirm his services to the revolution. The body was left in a roadside ditch.

How could the “first soldier of the revolution”, who was leading the Volynsky regiment to the street on February 27, 1917, know that on the same day and on the same streets General Kutepov defended the interests of the “obsolete class” with his army? And that on March 2, the Russian sovereign abdicated the throne, writing in his diary: "Around treason and cowardice and deceit!"

Of course, the sovereign had in mind such as Kirpichnikov, whose heroic face looked triumphantly at General Kutepov from all the Petrograd showcases ...

THE POET'S LOOK

On this day

On this day, an alarmed dignitary
I often answered the phone,
This day is scared, uneven
The telephone rang to the dignitary.

On this day, in its rebellious noise,
There was a lot of anger and longing
Marching to the Duma that day
The first insurgent regiments.

On this day, armored vehicles
Crawled through the empty streets,
On this day ... only policemen
From the attics they stood up for the regime.

On this day, the country broke itself,
Without looking at what's ahead
On this day, the queen pressed
Hands to my cold chest.

On this day, the embassies encrypted
The first summary is a runaway crochet,
On this day they rejoiced superbly
Obvious and secret enemies.

On this day ... Enough, for God's sake!
We know, we know - the axis broke:
On this day in the fallen away Petrograd
There was no powerful hero.

This day has arisen, bloody foaming,
This afternoon the Russian rut began -
Lenin sat somewhere on this day
Into your sealed carriage.

Conscience asks, like a priest,
The shadow reveals the Martyr ...
Is there really no forgiveness, God
Us for this crazy day ?!

Arseny Nesmelov

Kirpichnikov, Timofey Ivanovich

Kirpichnikov Timofey Ivanovich (1892 - late 1917 or early 1918) - the leader of the February Revolution of 1917 in Russia.

Biography

Kirpichnikov T.I. in the Petrograd newspaper, March 1917

Born into a peasant family in the Saransk district of the Penza province in 1892. He studied at a folk school. Drafted into the army before the start of the war, in connection with the achievement of draft age. He served as a senior sergeant-major of the training team of the reserve battalion of the Life Guards of the Volyn Regiment, and as a senior non-commissioned officer. During the revolution that began on February 23, 1917 in Petrograd, on the morning of February 27, he led an armed uprising of a training team. During the uprising of the team, its chief, staff captain I.S.Lashkevich was killed. During the day, other parts of the Petrograd garrison joined the armed uprising, which ultimately led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the victory of the revolution.

In April 1917, during violent protests against the Provisional Government, he organized a soldier's demonstration in support of it. This led to a fall in the authority of Kirpichnikov, who quickly left the political arena.

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