In 2013, north of the eagle, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe village of Zilina, until an incoming officially in the city trait, the construction of a new Bolkhovsky microdistrict began (he was named so because it is located next to Bolkhovsky highway). Two new streets that appeared here have received the names of General Lavrov and Count Kiselev. About these famous personalities that had attracted to Orlovshchina, I will tell. The first publication is devoted to Major General Vasily Lavrov.

"Your on Earth and behind the coffin ..."

One of the critical events of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 was the battle of the Bulgarian village of Mountain Dubnyak, the Turkish positions that did not give Russian troops to completely block the major enemy garrison in the Fortress of the Pleven, which would ensure a fracture during the whole war.

To take enemy fortifications, a detachment of the Guard led by General Gurko was sent. On October 12, 1877, at nine in the morning, his troops began the assault. The position of the enemy was extremely profitable - the height on the flat platform dominating over the surrounding area.

Life Guard, the Finnish Regiment, under the command of General Lavrov, who was part of the Gurko's squad, had a very difficult task - to cross the open, perfectly shot by the Turks of a width of about 500 steps. Lavrov decided to make it run and he himself led the soldier in the attack. The fight was terrible. From the memories of the participants: "hellish, stunning fire ... Something a monstrous, destroying ..." (participant of the assault A. Pubyrevsky); "The slaughterhouse ... Massacre ... Hell Fire ..." (Colonel G.P. Schmidt, who replaced V.N. Lavrov at the post of commander of the Life Guard of the Finnish Regiment after severely injured last).

Several attacks were unsuccessful, losses in this cruel battle were made by different estimates, up to 3,600 people were killed, injured, controversized and missing. And then General Lavrov once again decided to inspire fighters with an example. "Well done! Now let's go to the attack. When I wave a saber and crying "Hurray!", All for me, "he turned to the soldiers and rushed forward. Not rewarding 50 meters to Turkish Reduta, the general fell from two bullet hinders. But the regiment, inspired by his commander, fulfilled the task.

On the eve of this fatal battle, prefabricating trouble, Lavrov wrote a letter to his wife: "In an hour we go to the thing. If it is not destined to stay alive, I send you this farewell word. Thank you for the happiness that you delivered me, I will die, uttering your name with the last sigh. I love you, as can only love the human heart. Yes, the Lord keeps you and children, and they will make your happiness and consolation. I bless you. I fancy in Krivtsov. Your on Earth and behind the coffin Vasily Lavrov. "

Commander of the Life Guard of the Finnish Regiment

Vasily Nikolayevich Lavrov was born on April 27, 1837 (in some sources it was named 1838) in the family of serving the nobleman in the Epifanovsky district of the Tula province. After graduating with honors in 1855, the school of Guards submaroes and cavalry junkers he entered the service in the Life Guard of the Connon Grenadier Regiment.

Then there were studies in the Nikolaev Academy of General Staff and service at the headquarters of the Guards Corps. On January 12, 1863, in the rank of headquarten, Vasily Lavrov received a direction to the North-West Territory, at the disposal of General N. Ganetsky. Consisted at the headquarters of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division, the young officer participated in battles with the Polish rebels in the Goudshi and Shornkushki (in the latter he was wounded) and for the difference in them was awarded a golden saber with the inscription "For courage" and the Order of St. Vladimir the fourth degree swords and bow.

In 1866, Vasily Lavrov met Maria Alexandrovna Pogrebova, a daughter of a famous merchant, and made her a proposal of his hand and hearts. Honeymoon after the wedding newlyweds spent in Krivtsovo's village (the estate of the laurels in the Bolkhovsky district) and in Paris. In 1867, the young people had a son in 1871 - the daughter of Elizabeth (her famous portrait of the work of Ilya Repin is kept in the Russian Museum).

On August 30, 1875, Vasily Nikolayevich was produced in Majo-General, and in September 1876 he was appointed commander of the Life Guard of the Finnish Regiment, as part of which he had already participated in battles with Polish rebels.

And on October 12, 1877, it happened what I already told about. General Lavrov died as a result of severe wounds two days after that brutal battle. Performing a husband's will, his 30-year-old widow of Maria Aleksandrovna for two weeks accompanied the coffin with the body of the hero from Bulgaria to Bolkhovsky county, to the generic estate of laurels.

Sorrowful days

Here I will have to make some clarifications. The fact is that in many sources and reference articles about General Vasily Lavrov said that they buried him in the crypt of the Krivtsovsky Church. However, this is not quite true.

The parish church of Lavrov landowners was not in Krivtsovo, but in the village of Berezui. Yes, existed in the XIX - early XX century in the Bolkhovsky county, a unique village ranked at the spiritual department and located in 20 versts east of Bolhov on the steep bank of the Berezuya River - Oki's inflows. The local builder of the introduced church, consecrated in 1829, was the grandfather of the part of the general in the battle with the Turks General - V.I. Lavrov. Here's here, in Bercie, to a small one-pic church, and brought the body of his unforgettable husband killed by grief widow.

In the metric book of the introduced church for 1877, there is an entry: "On October 14, 1877, the commander of the Life Guard of the Finnish Regiment, Major Major, Lavrov, 39 years old, passed away from RAS. Buried on October 30. " General during a large coherence of the people from the surrounding villages, the priest of the village of Berezui Alexey Popov with Tranchik Vasily Nikolsky.

After goodbye from the late coffin with the body of Vasily, Nikolaevich Lavrov was placed in a family crypt, located on the right side of the temple of the introduction.

Generic estate of laurels, Selo Krivtsovo, was in the mile from Berezuya. There since the funeral of the beloved husband and settled on the permanent residence of his widow Maria Alexandrovna, who helled the life of God, the management of farms and the help of local residents.

In 1880, she highlighted a large amount of money to update the temple in the village of Berezui: He was plastered by the walls, the floor was converted, put a new iconostasis and built a house for clergy.

In 1901, Maria Alexandrovna once again sacrificed solid funds for his repairs. And whoever would be the abbot of the Church, Maria Alexandrovna always came to the help, if they need something.

Together with other heroes

After the revolution, the laurel estate was nationalized. The widow -comaster had to leave such expensive places to her and leave to Petrograd, to the daughter of Elizabeth and the grandchildren, who, later, the scientist-orientalist A.N. Boldyrevu. There, in Petrograd, Maria Alexandrovna soon died.

In the late 20th - early 30s, the church in the name of the introduction into the temple Blessed Virgin Mary In Berezu, it was closed and underwent ruthless robbery. Marauders hurried and on the crypt General Lavrov. As a result, Vasily Nikolayevich was transferred then to another burial - a few dozen meters from the church.

In the period of the Great Patriotic War In the local places all 1942 and the first half of the 1943 were bloody battles. From many villages then there were only memories of da heads from houses. The little village Berezuy ceased to exist, and soon there was nothing left of his introduced church.

The secondary burial of Major Vasily Lavrov's secondary burial in the thickets in the thickets, thanks to the efforts of the wonderful Bolkhov journalist and the local history of Alexander Venedikovich and the Oryol architect Sergey Ivanovich Fedorov, and the ashes of the hero of the Russian-Turkish war on September 7, 1978 was postponed for the third time. Now the grave of Vasily Lavrov with a sculptor of the sculptor installed on it. Basarev and architect S.I. Fedorova is located next to the Krivtsov memorial. The hero of the liberation of Bulgaria finally found the last peace here - next to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

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(from infanteria), Member of many wars, St. George Cavalier. At the end of the XVIII century, he was commanded by Tomsk Infantry (Musktish) regiment (1799-1800), then commanded all Muskequers and Cossacks of Siberia (1800-1806).

Biography

Nikolai Ivanovich Lavrov comes from the old rhodation of Russians hereditary nobles Registered by Kaluga province. Son known major Generalbut prince Ivan Petrovich Lavrov and his spouses Praskovy Bogdanovna (in Maiden - Bibikova), cousin of General Ansefa Prince Alexandra Bibikova .

Military career Nikolay Lavrov began in 16 years ordinary life Guard Moscow Preobrazhensky regiment (enrolled on January 1, 1777). It was accustomed to the title lieutenantbut. As an officer of the Russian army, participated in the campaigns and battles of the 1780s.

May 15, 1789, with the assignment of the title second majorand translated into the 1st battalion Bug's housing. Formed this building and commanded them in those years, the legendary commander, Major General Prince Mikhail Kutuzov. By that time, Kutuzov was married to the cousin N. Lavrov. Related relations between them turned into friendship continuing until death (both died in one year). Under the start of Kutuzov, a young officer premier Major Pavlovsky regiment Nikolai Lavrov in the same year participated in the battle under Kaushana, in the storming of cities-fortresses Akkerman and Bender In the course Russian-Turkish War 1787-1791

In 1790 he participated in capturing Kilia and in complete drama sturm Izmail, where, manifesting a personal courage, I received bullet injuries to the right leg and left hand. Having distinguished Izmaile, was produced in premier Majors. In 1791 he participated in the defeat of the 23rd-thousand Turkish troops under Babadag and in Machinsky battle. For heroism, for the manifested bravery and courage on March 18, 1792, he was awarded Sign of the Military Order of St. George-victorious (Georgievsky Officer Cross) IV degree.

In 1792 and 1794 fought in Poland.. In 1793, as part of the Russian Embassy in Ottoman Empireheaded lone Prince Kutuzovvisited Istanbul . The mission's task is to strengthen Russian influence in Turkey - was brilliantly performed.

April 20, 1797 N.I. Lavrov received the title lieutenant colonela and was appointed brigad Major. for emperor Paul I. (that is, performed adjutant functions under the emperor, formally without entering the retinue His Majesty), and already September 11, 1798 was produced in coloneland.

In 1799, he participated in the hostilities of the Russian-Austrian army led by Field Marshal graph Alexander Suvorov vs french troops in Italy and then in his bar Swiss campaign. At this time, Prince Lavrov held the position of duty officer's duty officer at the main apartment (headquarters) of the commander, according to the status on arrival in the fighting regiment was to be able to not only report the decision of the commander, but also to participate (and if necessary, replace the commander) in the command , in the organization of combat. Participated in siege and taking Brescia and Turinbut; Battles at Tidon, Tskobia, Novi., Saint-Gotard and Glarece, where the bullet was injured on the right shoulder.

In recognition of combat merit November 2, 1799 highest order was in the title major Generalbut. At this time, he married her daughter Varvar Muromseva. After the wedding, he received an appointment to inspect the troops located in Transbaikal, on the Kyakhtinskaya borderline. Soon for a year was appointed chief of the Tomsk Muskeleton Regiment, quartered then mainly in the city Kolyvan Tomsk County with the functions of a guard service for Tomsk and the Imperial Altai Plants of the Barnaul County.

From October 15, 1800 became the chief Shirvan Musketer Shelf, occupying this position until January 27, 1808. In addition, he was appointed inspector for infanteria Siberian military inspection, commanded in Siberia Muskequers, including Tomsky and was in Central Asia Shirvanian Musketer shelves and formation Siberian Cossack troops .

On August 23, 1806, he became the commander of the Brigade of the 8th Infantry Division, thus returned, thus, from the Tomsk province to the European part of Russia.

Took part in war with Napoleonic France in 1806-1807, distinguished under Pultusky. IN battle of Precisch Eilau He got a heavy wound with fragments of grenades in the right side.

In the summer of 1808, at the height Russian-Swedish-English WarLavrov commanded the 11th Infantry Division. Here he got close to the commander of Russian forces in the Baltic States by General from artillery Count A.A. ArakcheevWith which, until the end of the life, supported friendly relations. In this war, the task of Lavrov was the organization of the coastal defense of the land forces.

August 30, 1810 Highest Was awarded the title lieutenant-generalbut .

On April 22, 1812, he was appointed head of the 1st Western Army headquarters, whose commander-in-chief was Field Marshal MB Barclay de Tolly.

June 21, 1812, that is, a few days after the invasion of the troops in Russia Napoleon (Began Patriotic War of 1812), N.I. Lavrov was released from the post of headquarters of the headquarters "on illness" (the Marquis F. Paulchucci first was appointed in his place, and on July 1, 1812 - General A.P. Yermolov ). After Smolensky battle was appointed commander of the 5th Infantry Corps, which included elite guards shelves.

... At the arrival of Prince Kutuzov, the army revived, because the former [commander-in-chief] with a frozen soul frowned and feelings of all his subordinates. However, the circumstances of the affairs, the circumstances of us inside of Russia, forced both Kutuzov to make a few spacative marches in order to connect with the reserve forces, and finally, the faster battle was followed by the 26th. Borodina, which lasted from 5 am to 7 pm.<…> I had the honor to command the Guard, who courageous, obedience and order deserved praise from the whole army.<…> This day stands to her killed and injured for 3,000 people.<…> Where death lit so many sons of Russia, I have survived somehow, but the damned French shook my riding horses, and I now hop. Bivaki upset my health. If God gives to finish this tiring war, then I will not stay in service, for, however, it's not gouring anywhere, old and weak. Judging by the business, it will be hot again in two days.<…> .

It was on the "reserve center" one of the main blows of Bonapartists who tried to master the Rarut and the Battery of Raevsky. Attacks, counterattacks, the bayonet battle arose from different sides.

October 20, 1812 "For the courage and courage rendered in the battle against the French troops on August 26th with Borodina" was awarded order of St. George III degree. Participated in all major battles of the autumn of 1812 ( near Maloyaroslavets, Vyazma and Red).

In mid-January 1813, N.I. Lavrov seriously fell ill. At this time, military events evolved outside Russia. Nikolai Ivanovich was forced to turn to the representative of the emperor in the troops great Prince Konstantin Last: " Feeling that now health is more and more weakens, then in order not to become excessive burden in service, I am daring at Nizhayshe once to ask your imperial highness about dismissing me on vacation to cure a disease, for a period of four months ..." The petition was satisfied. The path of the relatives of the general from Poland before the estate in the village was dragged to the autumn.

Died in November of the same 1813 (one of the versions, November 29, on the other - several earlier, and on November 28 excluded from the lists) in the estate of cold Oryol province, Greeting N.I. Lavrov from mother. Buried the cousin of the future Russian writer Turgenev At the parish Pokrovskaya Church, located in the verst from the village of Lower milk. Six years later, "dependent Lieutenant General Nikolai Ivanovich Lavrov and his sister and her husband, instead of the old wooden, in memory of combat General A single-pore stone temple with a bell tower was built.

December 10 in the Moscow Vedomosti was placed a retirement rescript emperor Alexander I.: « In memory of the merits for the benefit of the Fatherland of Loventant Lovelova, who deceased after many works, in the current campaign of transferred and upset his health, commanding the remaining widow to produce [her] in the pension full content The deceased, meaning under the sim and salary inspector and dining money».

In the military gallery Winter Palace Portrait of N.I. Lavrov is absent: according to the sister of the commander, Catherine Ivanovna Lutovinova-Somoma, " my deceased brother did not allow anyone to write off the portraits from himself and at this reason the reason for the portrait did not happen like me, as well as the deceased his wife" At the site of the portrait there is a frame, tightened by green silk, with engraved rank, initials and surname.

A family

Nikolai Ivanovich Lavrov was married to the daughter of the Lieutenant General Muromtsev - Varvar Matveyevna. Children did not have. Daughter of his sister, Catherine Ivanovna Lutovinova-Somova - Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova, Mother writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev .

Awards

In the reference literature, very poor information about the awards was preserved (and the hero, probably had the Order of St. Anne and St. Stanislav, lower rank than Holy George's orders known for him), and this information is exclusively about Russian orders. However, in foreign campaigns to the Patriotic War of 1812, he could well be awarded the orders of foreign states.

• Cavalier order of St. George III degree
• Cavalier order of St. George IV degree
• awarded with gold weapons "For courage"
• medal "In memory of the Patriotic War of 1812" (1813)

Memory

Memory about N.I. Lavrov in the Tomsk region is not supported: everything is lost in the bends of history, everything is associated with Russian pre-revolutionary officers.

Literature

• Volkov S.V. General Russian Empire. encyclopedic Dictionary Generals and Admirals from Peter I to Nicholas II. Volume II. L-I. - M., 2009.
• List of military department (seniority generals) ... for 1776. - Spb., 1776.
• Stepanov V.S., Grigorovich P.I. In memory of the centenary anniversary of the Imperial Military Order of the Holy Great Martyr and the victorious George. (1769-1869). - Spb., 1869.
• Dictionary of Russian generals, participants in hostilities against Napoleon's Army Bonaparte in 1812-1815. // Russian archive: Sat. - M.: Studio "Trite" N. Mikhalkov, 1996. - T. VII. - P. 443.
• Shabanov V.M. Military Order of the Holy Martyr and Victorious George. Personal lists 1769-1920. Bibliographic directory. - M., 2004.

Notes

1. Estimation (Selo) Coldo is now the disappeared village in the Apalkovsky village council Kromsky district, on the border with

"General Lavrov"

Vasily Nikolayevich Lavrov was born on April 27 (May 9) of 1837. The leaving from the modest noble family of the Epifanic County of the Tula province, Vasily realized that he would have to count on himself in this life. He attracted such qualities as hard work, perfection, honesty and nobility towards others.

Since childhood, Vasily decided to devote himself to military service and firmly went to the target target. I lived a young man with my mother, love Ivanovna Lavrov. Information about his father is absent.

In 1855, Vasily Nikolayevich ends with honors from the school of Guards subpenters and cavalry junkers. His name as a better graduate according to tradition was listed on the marble board. He entered the service on June 11, 1855 by ensign in the Life Guard Connon-Grenadier Regiment.

Deciding to continue military educationLavrov in 1857 decided on the Nikolaev Academy of General Staff. For success in his studies, he was carried out in Lieutenants, and on January 12, 1863, he was sent to the North-West Territory to the North-West region at the disposal of General Galtsky.

At this time, excitement began in Russian Poland, soon reborn into a serious uprising in order to return independence. However, the rebels were not able to create a regular army, and therefore the final outcome of the struggle could not cause doubts.

Consisting at the headquarters of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division, Lavrov from the Life Guard, the Finnish regiment was directly involved in the fights at the villages of the Huddark (April 26, 1863) and the village of Shkurkishki (April 27 of the same year), where he was injured in the neck of a rifle bullet and contuge. Already at that time he showed excellent courage. For the difference in those battles Vasily Nikolaevich was awarded the Order St. Vladimir IV degree with swords and golden sabers with the inscription "For courage".

At the end of the Polish campaign, Lavrov continued the service at the headquarters of the guard of the Guard of the St. Petersburg Military District as a senior adjutant for special instructions. After production in Colonels (1866), he was prescribed by the headquarters of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division.

In the same year, Vasily Nikolayevich met Maria Pogrebova - a daughter of a famous merchant-kommersant, an honorary citizen and an influential figure of the city Duma. At the proposal of the hands and hearts proud beauty responded with refusal, but I asked to give a term to think, and the colonel did not have anything to wait.

Soon, however, when a young, slender, elegant colonel appeared in her parents' house, and repeated his request, Maria Alexandrovna gave consent. Honeymoon after the wedding was held in Krivtsovo - Vasily Nikolayevich (now Bolkhovsky district of the Oryol region), and then went to France.

The twenty-one-year-old colonel was very in love with his eighteen-year-old wife, distinguished by some kind of special article. His especially amused when Paris street boys shouted after a high statutory Russian lady: "Eiffel Tower!".

In 1867, the Lavrov had a son, and four years later, the daughter of Elizabeth.

Maria Alexandrovna constantly lived in the village of Krivtsovo, engaged in raising children and was a complete owner of the estate. Vasily Nikolayevich came there at a convenient case and, of course, during vacation. Sometimes he took his wife and children to himself in the capital of "bothering," to immerse yourself in a capital life. It was a happy time in Lavrov.

The interests of Vasily Lavrov were not limited to military service. His civil activity was significant. Since 1873, he consisted of the vowels of the Oryol Duma. There was a member of the commission on the construction of a foundry, under his leadership, an extensive report on the equestrian road in the capital was compiled. The main thing of Lavrov was the issues of serving military service. His attentive, affectionate appeal, the warm sympathy to their requirements, earned gratitude to both the estate elders and the population.

On August 30, 1875, Vasily Nikolayevich was made to Majo-General and to a special order left in the previous post of headquarters of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division. A year later, on September 24, 1876, the commandment of Emperor Alexander II Lavrov is appointed commander of the Life Guard of the Finnish Regiment and enters into command on the eve of the 90th anniversary of this military unit.

In 1877, a big war bundled. In April, Russia raised the weapons in defense of the one-terrain Bulgarian people, who threatened the genocide from the Osmanov Turkish. Initial luck was replaced by defeats under the spless, and the government was forced to be directed to the front to the Guards shelves far from Bulgaria.

On August 21, Vasily Nikolaevich first echelon arrived in Kiev. Being a little later in Zhmerinka, he has already noted signs of war: the ways were crammed by the oncoming trains with sick and wounded, military echelons were standing for a long time or crawled step. Being in Chisinau, Lavrov first visited the founding of the famous General M. I. Dragomirov, with whom he was in friendly relations, and heard a story about Shipkin's epic from an eyewitness. In Iasi, Echelons with the Guards of the Finnish regiment arrived on August 26-28. The entire 2nd Guards Infantry Division has been gathered here. Soon the order followed: due to overload railway Next follow foot.

Thus, the divisuses had a forty-dietary march for 600 versts from Yass to positions at the mountain Dubnyak. The path went through the lands of Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria. The beginning of the test was the first transition to a strong heat in highland. However, the warriors of the Finnish regiment strengthened both the spirit and body. "Yesterday we walked from 6 am to 6 pm and after all, despite the incredible fatigue, entered the city with music ..." (from the letter V.N. Lavrov). It also describes the strongest shower - such rapid flow streams that the soldiers could barely stand on their feet.

After on September 10, the weather changed sharply: "Rain and cold came, people get on Biva to crude land, and fevers appeared ... Moscow Regiment entered the Iasi, having 1000 people backward, people were lying on the street from exhaustion ..." (from the letter V. N . Lavrov).

Then Vasily Nikolayevich, encouraging the fighters, went at the head of his shelf on foot, neglecting his commander right to go to the horses. Soft and kind to soldiers, Lavrov wanted to know the difficult share of the soldier on his experience, and very soon this path led him to an instant decision to personally lead the attack on the Turk, for him the last one.

Military actions meanwhile continued. In August 1877, the heroic defenders of the Perezki Perekki (the 36th Orlovsky and 35th Bryansky infantry shelves with Bulgarian militias) broke the plan for the large-scale counteroffensive Osmananov in order to discard the "incorrect" back for the Danube. And this despite the huge numerical superiority of the enemy.

On August 30, there was an unsuccessful, already the third in the account, the assault of the Turkish stronghold - the Fortresses of the Pleven, after which, on the Council, the Hero of Sevastopol Defense specially arrived from St. Petersburg Crimean war General E. I. Totleben, the Russian command came to the conclusion that the only way to take the pieces consists in its blockade. The nearest goal was becoming mastered by a mountain dubnyak and a telling to close the ring of the blockade.

On October 10, the Life Guard Finnish Regiment was hastily moved to the village of Eki-Barcas, where the shelves and batteries of the Guards infantry were concentrated, as well as cavalry parts under the general command of General I. V. Gurko, for the assault of important Turkish fortification of Mountain Dubnyak.

On October 11, the regiment was prepared by 500 large fires, designed to throw the RVs and deep ditches that prevented the passage of artillery. On the same day, General Lavrov with some of his officers and representatives of other regiments participated on a trip to review the site between the Plevnaya and Mountain Dubnyak - 23 kilometers from this fortress.

Strengthening the mountain Dubnya was an elevation on a flat platform that crouched a shrub, which ahead of 1000 steps was cut down by Turks, but in some places there were lonely bushes, to which they exactly measured the distance to beat the upcoming certainly. The most disadvantageous and dangerous position was the Finnish regiment. At 9 am on October 12, General I. V. Gurko, under the command of which there were 22,000 people at 64-tools, ordered to start the assault. Osmans, armed with small arms of foreign samples and four long-range Kruppi guns, led the aiming fire of tremendous strength and density that caused large losses to our troops.

According to the testimony of the participant of Asturma A. Pubyrevsky, it was "hellish, stunning fire ... Something a monstrous, destroying ..." He will repeat the colonel G. P. Schmidt, who watched the fight from close range: "The slaughterhouse ... Massacre ... Hell Fire ..." Russian flights The grenade applied losses by the Russian troops, especially the battalions of the Finnish regiment, which were on the starting line.

At about 11 o'clock in the "dead space", the 1st and 4th battalions of the regiment headed by General Lavrov gathered. It remained to strengthen 300-400 steps of a completely open space.

Vasily Nikolayevich was convinced that the assault was poorly prepared. At 14 o'clock, the ordinar officer delivered the order of General I. V. Gurko to hold a common attack, again, there was little chance of success, but Lavrov had already made a final decision.

"Well done! Now let's go to the attack. When I wave a saber and crying "Hurray!" "Watch everything for me," he turned to the soldiers. A sharp progress, the general touched himself from the ground, snatched a saber and crying "Hurray!" Rushed forward. In a single impulse, officers and soldiers rushed at their favorite commander with one goal - to take an enemy shaft.

Suddenly, fifty steps from strengthening Vasily Nikolayevich fell, struck by two bullets in the chest, and lost consciousness. Finnish continued to run forward. Some have come to the shaft by 20-30 steps, but under the hail of the bullets were forced to move and go. Russian artillery stopped the fire, and from 16 to 18 hours a formidable sobility silence reigned. An ordinary E. I. Kolpakov ruled the deadly general from the battlefield and for it was awarded a sign of the difference between the 4th degree military order (St. George). Dying October 14 at the main Evakopuncture, Vasily Nikolayevich asked Kolpakov not to leave his wife and children, and this decent man after dismissal from the army really with his family settled in Krivtsovo. Until 1887, he performed the duties of the headman, and then the manager of the estate M. A. Lavrov.

The heroic death of General Lavrov filed an example of courage, and individual crosses were able to move in the assets of the strengthening of Ottomans and gradually filled it. Then General Gurko, who gathered already to take the troops back and turn, changed his mind, and at about 19 o'clock suddenly he had a victorious "Hurray" - the Guards Shelves mastered the rapid throw, finally, Radut Ottomans. In this last in battle at the Mountain Dubnyak, the attack of the Life Guard Finland Regiment was already the new commander - Colonel Georgy Petrovich Schmidt.

Russians captured 2289 Turks with 4 guns, but they themselves lost 3533 fighters - the price of victory was high.

In the last days of October 1877, a mourning procession with a zinc coffin of General arrived by train to Mtsensk. The thirtieth way from the station to Krivtsovo, the coffin was accompanied by residents of the surrounding villages, sleeping the road late autumn fields.

The remains of V. N. Lavrov were buried with an unprecedented crossing of the people in the crypt of the Krivtsovsky Church.

In 1932, the coffin with his ashes blaspiciously pulled out of the crypt in the hope of picking up gold and silver rewards and when they did not turn out, buried meters at 70 from the church. The third rebelief of the ashes of the general was held on September 7, 1978 at the Krivtsov memorial, where his bust was installed.

It is also impossible not to note the unusually strong, touching lubber, which the wife of Lavrov experienced each other throughout their family life. "Your on earth and behind the coffin ..." - so ended last letter Vasily Nikolayevich Maria Aleksandrovna, dated October 12, 1877.

Vasily Mikhailovich Lavrov - (December 28, 1841, Pskov province Russian empire-10 October 1903, St. Petersburg Russian Empire) - Counter Admiral, Lieutenant-General, Chairman of the Board of the Baltic Plant.
Business card with autograph of the future counter-admiral

From the nobles. Born on December 28, 1841 in his inference estate in the Pskov province. Brought up in the naval cadet corpswhere he was adopted in 1855 by Admiral Nakhimov's boarding person.
V.M. Lavrov, while still captain 2 rank, surrounded by family members and friends, shot in Japan

In 1861, the fleet was performed on the middleman of the fleet, with enrollment in the 3rd fleet crew. In 1861-1862 committed circumnavigation On Corway, Bogatyr under the command of the captain of the 2nd rank Chebyshev, in the Escade of Admiral Popova and in 1863 on Corway, Rinda under the command of Lieutenant Basargin. In the same year he received the first officer of Michman.
Comrade Lavrov, sitting next to him on the previous Japanese photo. Already in the general rank. Full name unknown

In 1865, translated into the Siberian flotilla and went to the place of service at Schoonen Aleut. In the Siberian flotilla served until 1890. He was one of the main figures on the device of Vladivostok, putting the basis for his future economic well-being, and took an active and direct participation on the construction of the Vladivostok port. At the same time, he took part in affairs with the enemy during the expulsion of Honghuz from the South Ussuria Territory on Schoon Aleut.
Ivan Mikhailovich Lavrov, Vice Admiral, Brother Owner of the Archive, Kronstadt Commander.

IN last years His ministry in Siberian waters he served as captain over the Vladivostok port and the assistant commander of the same port. At the same time, he made a lot of swimming in the Japanese and Chinese seas, as well as on the southern harbors and in the ports of the Eastern Ocean, so that a total of more than 15 years on the ship's deck.
Another brother Lavrov, I. (Ivan?) Lavrov, judging by autograph

In the continuation of his service, he commanded the courts in the Siberian flotilla of the screw schoony aleut, the Abrek clipper, in the Baltic Sea, the Battleship of the Coastal Defense Admiral Lazarev, at the same time was the commander of the 4th Fleet crew of the cruiser of the 1st grade Admiral Nakhimov.
Unknown officer

I was a commander of the 6th Fleet crew, the cruiser of the Duke of Edinburgh, as well as the commander of the 10th Flot crew.
Unknown counter-admiral retired

In 1895, he was appointed Chairman of the Baltic Shipbuilding and Mechanical Plant and in the same year was produced in counter-admirals.
Admiral nephew, while Micklandemarine is still

From June 5, 1896, the monarch of the St. Petersburg port is temporarily executed by the monarch of good condition And order on the bronniosce of SISA Great. January 1, 1902, for the difference, produced in Lieutenant-General.
The same Gardemarine is already a student of Polytech

Died on October 10, 1903 in St. Petersburg. November 13, 1903 is excluded from the lists of the dead.
Student Polytech has already become an engineer.

Son Vice Admiral Ivan Lavrov Georgy, in the rank of Lieutenant Fleet. In the future, one of the first marine pilots, a friend of Sikorsky. Crashed on "Ilele Muromster"

Close relatives of Lavrov
VOVERRACH

Student of the Imperial Military Medical Academy

He is in the rank of maritime medic and in civilian clothes

The same naval doctor in the rank of the college adviser

The Park Museum of General Lavrova was created in memory of the warriors who died in battles near the flea in the years of the Russian-Turkish Liberation War 1877-1878. The park is located near the small Bulgarian village of Hornie Dybnik, on the road Pleven-Sofia, 25 km South-west Pleven.
Memorial Park was named after the Russian officer, Major General Vasily Nikolayevich Lavrov (1837-1877, was buried in the childbirth of Krivtsovo Orlovskaya province), the commander of the Life Guards Finland Regiment, who received a heavy wound during the assault of Turkish Reduzzi under the village of Horny Dubnik and died from wound on October 14, 1877.

History

Park Museum is located where in October 1877, fierce battles were walking on the approaches to the Pleven. On October 12, 1877, Russian troops went to the attack on the Turkish garrison. As part of the Russian division was 46 officers and 3097 lower ranks. In the bloody battle under the village of Horny, the soul was killed four officers, 29 were injured, of whom they died three later. From the lower ranks, the Russian army lost 310 people killed and 594 - injured. (Data on the dead and wounded are inscribed on one of the memorable marble plates). The dead, with the military honors were buried at the site of the battle in the fraternal graves.
In 1950-1954, a park called the name of the famous Russian general was founded at the site of the battles near the village of Horny Dubnik. On the fraternal graves of the victims of the Russian soldiers of the Life Guards Grenadier, Life Guards, the Life-Guards of the Life-Guards, Life Guards and Life Guards Finnish Regiment were established granite monuments. In honor of General Lavrov on the rock bronze medallion was fixed. In memory of the events of the Russian-Turkish War, in 1953, a stone sculpture "Eternal Friendship" of Peter Zlatatarev, depicting a Russian soldier and Bulgarian militia, was installed in the park. On the territory of the park there is an exposition from combat artillery tools left since the times of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878.
In 1977, complex work on reconstruction was carried out in the park, during which several monuments were created by the fallen heroes. Sculpted monuments were installed in honor of the dead officers: Colonel Elmara Fedorovich Proccop (1841-1877), Colonel Konstantin Alekseevich Runova (1839-1877, was buried at the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg), Colonel Nikolai Fedorovich Ozarovsky (1844-1877) and Lieutenant Nikolai Nikolaevich Vozozozhenko (1854-1877).
The last reconstruction of the park was conducted in 2001 in the framework of the "Beautiful Bulgaria" project.
In 2004, the chapel of St. George Victorious was built on the territory of the Park Museum.

Information for tourists

The entrance to the park is free.
Page on the site "Russian monuments of the liberation war": http://ruskipametnici.com/?action\u003dnews&id\u003d95&lang\u003dBG.
Page on the site: http://rusmir.cl.bas.bg/