“how the White Guard general taught the Red Army soldiers to fight” Viktor Kovalchuk. “I demand public justice and transparency!”

Mikhail Bulgakov once wrote "Running" for another country - thinking and suffering, hating and loving, sick, but not
broken. And General Khludov, one of the central characters, a murderer and executioner who hanged workers on telegraph poles in the Crimea, had
a completely real prototype.

NOT THE BOLSHEVIKS DESTROYED THE RUSSIAN ARMY

Bulgakov's hero, Roman Khludov, was Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchev in life. Dictator of Crimea and Novorossiysk,
a rival of Wrangel himself and simply... an unhappy person.

Yakov was born on January 10, 1886 into a St. Petersburg family of hereditary military men. It was predetermined by parents and fate,
that he will become a career officer. His grandfather, while in the service in Russian army, took part in the Russian-Turkish campaign, and
a little later, in burning Warsaw, he suppressed the uprising of the arrogant gentry.

The path of little Jacob was not much different from the life paths of noble children: gymnasium, scout clubs, cadet school, military
school. Finishing the last, 20-year-old Slashchev does not have time to get to the Japanese front and, either out of frustration, or on the advice of his elders,
enters the General Staff Academy, where the young officer was not received very well - he was quick-tempered, proud, smart and sometimes
unrestrained. Unlike the “lousy intelligentsia,” the future owner of Crimea could even punch him in the face for an insult. Besides,
Yakov "dabbled" in the development of unusual night operations - a kind of mixture of partisan detachments and flying sabotage groups.

He met the First World War calmly - at a café table. Shrugging his shoulders, he said: “Well, gentlemen, fight just like that. I
I’ve already begun to forget how it’s done.” The company commander of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment at the end of 1916 was already a lieutenant colonel,
and in the February Revolution - a colonel with full set everyone military awards. Plus four wounds and a concussion.

He was far from politics, interested only in theater, literature and, of course, military service. From memory
colleagues, Yakov Aleksandrovich hated large crowds of people. And I didn’t even suspect it existed political parties
due to a strong internal monarchical conviction. He was devoted to the emperor and Russia. I was worried, watching how the great army
the empire is falling apart. Slashchev wrote: “The old army was dying, so those who say that the front was destroyed by the Bolsheviks are wrong. No,
the unfortunate troops were destroyed not by the Bolsheviks or Germans, but enemy within- bribery, drunkenness, theft and, most importantly, -
loss of a sense of pride in the title of Russian officer."

UNDER THE BULLETS - A DRUNKEN GENERAL

1917 shattered the illusions of the “gold-chasing column” like glass Christmas decorations. Slashchev was no exception. The collapse of the Russian
army became the ruin of his life. A few months later he resigned due to health reasons. But already three months later, in January 1918
year, Slashchev, only for him known reasons, found himself in the ranks.

Cold Sunday morning at headquarters Volunteer Army in Novocherkassk, a broad-shouldered officer came in with a very pale face, on
in which all the muscles twitched nervously. It was Colonel Slashchev. He clicked his heels and, putting the documents on the table, said
commission responsible for recruiting officers: “Ready to take command of the unit.” A few days later in one of
Novocherkassk cafes Yakov was called out by staff captain Sukharev, his former colleague. They hugged, and after a short
conversation, Sukharev exclaimed: “Yakov Alexandrovich, my dear! Do you remember your hobbies for partisan warfare?! It is quite possible that
your hobby can become a reality. “Everything will come in handy in the fight against the Bolshevik scum.”

Sukharev was not mistaken - in six months of conducting guerrilla warfare in the steppes North Caucasus the restless colonel is not only
defeated a dozen Red Army detachments, but was also able to put together a detachment of five thousand Kuban Cossacks. Being not very
ambitious, he agreed to the position of chief of staff, and gave command of the corps to an officer “from the locals” - General Shkuro.

On July 12, 1918, Shkuro’s cavalry corps entered Stavropol from the western outskirts, where it united with the main units
Volunteer Army. However, a few months later the general was removed from command of the corps for looting and robberies.
Early April next year supreme commander Volunteer Army Anton Denikin assigned to Yakov Slashchev
another military rank- Major General, he soon took command of a 5,000-strong division and led it to Moscow.

The lightning attacks of the Slashchev landing force on Odessa and Nikolaev made it possible to take control of the entire right bank Ukraine. Slashchevtsy
They smashed everyone - the Reds, the Makhnovists, the Greens, and even the well-armed regiments of Simon Petlyura. The general's trump card was
night raids. Yakov Aleksandrovich lived on the front line extremely secluded, communicating with few of the officers, often standing under hurricane
full-length fire, smoking cigarettes - he was only interested in the enemy’s positions. But behind the feigned indifference and
The cruelty was crazy suffering from old wounds, pain for a departed Russia, longing for loved ones.

In the evenings, unable to bear the aching wounds, Slashchev doused himself with alcohol. When alcohol stopped helping, Yakov Aleksandrovich switched
for cocaine. At that time, this drug was popular not only among the St. Petersburg elite, but also among the highest officers.
Slashchev could not help but use it, because he became addicted to drugs in officer hospitals, where he took these drugs,
to numb the pain. Somewhere in August, orderlies found him near Odessa famous Alexander Vertinsky and lightning fast
taken to the carriage to General Slashchev. When the mortally frightened chansonnier entered the headquarters carriage, two icy
eyes with pupils similar to the barrels of revolvers. Yakov Aleksandrovich pointed to the piano that had ended up in the carriage unknown and said:
“Please, Mr. Vertinsky. Show me what you are capable of.” Vertinsky looked at the staff maps laid out on the table and
replied: “Perhaps I will interfere with your meeting?” Slashchev grinned and turned to the table. Vertinsky began to sing. he sang
all night and only in the morning was he able to escape from the smoky carriage, where only the man mad with fatigue, vodka and cocaine was awake
general with his common-law wife Nina. The latter went through a long front road with Slashchev and more than once pulled him out on her
from under the bullets. According to staff certificates, she was classified as cadet N.

In October 1919, General Slashchev’s corps completely defeated several Red divisions and almost drove the dashing Nestor into the ground
Makhno. The latter cut his way through Slashchev’s barriers with a small detachment and went to Central Ukraine, where, under his black
Anarchist banners became more than 100 thousand peasants. Denikin, in a rage, sends a telephone message to the general: “I order you immediately
defeat the Makhnovist gangs, and hang Makhno himself at the railway signal." On November 16, Slashchev, under the guise of preparing for
holidays concentrated the main forces of the corps near Yekaterinoslav and in the dead of night dealt a terrible blow to superior forces
enemy forces. White Guard armored trains burst into the city, paving the way for the horsemen of the crazy general. Makhno barely
managed to leave the city. In the morning the general distributed to soldiers and officers St. George's crosses and hanged captured Makhnovists on poles.

The delegation of wealthy townspeople was never able to meet with Slashchev: “The general drinks on the occasion of the victory and is completely stupefied.” This
moment Makhno attacked the city. And it seemed that there was no longer any salvation for the “golden chasers.” But at the decisive moment, in the midst of the Makhnovist
The distraught General Slashchev flew in. He was in an unbuttoned jacket, with a saber in his hands. Behind him rushed howling wild
in the voices of a hundred Kuban bodyguards. Desperate grunts, led by the general, instantly made a “clearing” of bodies with sabers.
The Makhnovists fled in horror, but were overtaken by the Slashchevites and destroyed. Nestor Ivanovich disappeared somewhere in the steppe. White Guard
celebrated the victory for three days.

Commander of the Crimean Corps, Lieutenant General Ya.A. Slashchev (3rd from right) with the ranks of his headquarters: chief of staff of the corps, Major General G. A. Dubyago (4th from right), Slashchev’s orderly N. N. Nechvolodova (right in the foreground) - later his wife. Crimea, April-May 1920

But this victory was no longer decisive. By the spring of 1920, only the Slashchev corps retained combat effectiveness and
mobility, while the main divisions and regiments rolled back in panic Crimean peninsula. Three thousand exhausted
With continuous battles of Slashchev's bayonets and sabers all winter, defending Perekop, they repulsed the attacks of the Reds. Yakov Alexandrovich collected
the remnants of the white troops and, having formed an additional corps near Odessa and Novorossiysk, as well as using all their military
the art of the strategist, extended the civil war for another fourteen months. An order was issued where the commander of all corps
announced: “I announce to everyone that while I command the troops, I will not leave Crimea and I make the defense of Crimea a matter of not only duty, but also
honor." He was popular and known on both sides of the front line: white reporters sang odes to him, and the red ones, although they hated him,
respected. And they called it nothing more than “Slashchev the hangman”. In fact, he was Slashchev-Krymsky. The last prefix to
he received the name as a gift from Wrangel “... for outstanding services in the defense of Crimea.” And yet Wrangel and Slashchev furiously
hated each other. The Baron spreads rumors about Slashchev's drug and alcohol abuse. At this very time
the mortally tired general, having taken command of three corps, led the summer offensive. But in the fall the Reds switched to
offensive and began to “drive” white units into Crimea. The restless general was still trying to organize partisan detachments, but seeing
demoralization of morale, I gave up this idea. And one night Slashchev with the banner of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment burst into
with his fighting friend Nina on the icebreaker "Muromets" and left for Istanbul.

Here he met Baron Wrangel, whom he accused of stupidity, theft and cowardice. In response, the baron arranges for the obstinate general
trial in absentia, deprives him of his rank, orders and the right to wear military uniform. But Slashchev did not care about Wrangel’s verdicts. He
was a hereditary nobleman and an officer to the core. And no one could deprive him of his titles and military awards except the emperor.

After some time, on the streets of Istanbul, Yakov Alexandrovich again met chansonnier Vertinsky. The singer later recalled:
"He lived in a small dirty house on the outskirts of the city with a bunch of people loyal to him to the end. He looked very pale and tired.
face. He is tired." But Vertinsky was mistaken. Slashchev could not get tired. He decides... to return to red Russia.

"HOW YOU SHOOT IS HOW YOU FIGHT"

The emigration was shocked: the bloodiest and most implacable enemy of the Soviet of Deputies was returning to the enemy’s camp. Among the Bolshevik
The management also panicked. Dzerzhinsky personally went to Sevastopol to meet with Slashchev. She returned with Slashchev
his wife, “cadet N.”, a comrade of Yakov Aleksandrovich, also a general, and several colonels. Dzerzhinsky returned with guests to
Moscow and, sitting in the carriage, painfully thought - what to do with Slashchev?! Nobody shoots and executes the bloody general
gathered due to phenomenal combat experience and knowledge of military art. Therefore, a few years later, in 1924, General
Slashchev headed... the Moscow courses "Shot" - the main one at that time military academy USSR. "Comrade Yakov" trained cadets
“fight against landings”, “maneuver as a guarantee of victory.” Cabinet battles were now flaring up between yesterday's mortal enemies,
Discussions about tactics dragged on until midnight, turning into friendly tea drinking in the hostel command staff. True, not everyone forgot
Slashchev is offended. “Sorting out” the campaign against Warsaw, revealing the reasons for its failure, Yakov Aleksandrovich expressed the idea that the main
The reason for the failure of the campaign was the stupidity of the Red command. Budyonny, black with rage, jumped up from his seat (who, by the way,
hinted Slashchev), grabbed a revolver from its holster and began firing at the former general. Fortunately, he didn't hit. White like a wall
Yakov Aleksandrovich approached Budyonny, who had already been pinned down by this time, and said: “The way you shoot is the way you fought.” IN
In 1925, the film company "Proletarskoye Kino" filmed historical film about Baron Wrangel. The role of Slashchev was starred... by Yakov himself, in
the role of "cadet N." -- his wife Nina.

He was not afraid of his revenge former enemies and their relatives. Slashchev had long been ready for death. He saw her around too often. 11
January 1928 Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchev was killed by a pistol shot by a certain Kolenberg, whose brother was hanged
General's order. Three days later, the general’s body was burned in the Donskoy Monastery. For an entire generation, Slashchev remained forever
the last symbol of Great Russia. A cruel symbol, mistaken, but not broken.

Many people remember the scene from Mikhail Bulgakov’s “Run”, where General Khludov commands his orderly: “Present a working deputation to Mr. Minister!” He leads the minister into the courtyard, where corpses swing on gallows...

The prototype of General Khludov was General Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchev. He actually hanged and shot in batches those who violated military order and discipline, not to mention the enemies. But, besides this, he was a brave combat commander.

Slashchev was extremely popular among his soldiers, who lovingly called him “General Yasha.” And he was hated by those who, under the cover of the White Guard uniform, sat in the rear, speculated, and profited.

Battle path

First world war Slashchev rose to the rank of colonel, was wounded five times, and was awarded the Order of St. George and the St. George's weapon for personally leading the troops into the attack. The pain from many wounds (several more were added during the Civil War) contributed to the formation of his addiction to drugs, which his personal enemies used against him.

Shortly before October Revolution Slashchev retired, seeing how the army was falling apart. But he was going to fight the Bolsheviks and went to the Don, where he took part in the creation of the Volunteer Army. In 1918 he helped the Kuban partisan Colonel Shkuro. Their dashing Cossack detachment smashed the rear of the Reds, liberated the city of Stavropol and united with the army of General Denikin.

IN Armed Forces South of Russia Slashchev received the rank of general for successful landing operation in the spring of 1919 in the Koktebel area, after which the whites liberated Crimea from the reds. His finest hour came in January 1920, when his prefabricated, poorly armed units repelled the attacks of the Reds on the Perekop Isthmus.

One day, Slashchev’s troops wavered and retreated. The general ordered the banners to be unfurled, the orchestra to start playing a march, and personally led the troops in a “psychic attack” on the Reds. At this point the enemy could no longer stand it and ran.

Crimea became the last refuge of the White Army for almost a year. And Slashchev gained the glory of the savior of Crimea.

Enmity with Wrangel

General Wrangel in his memoirs paints a portrait of General Slashchev as a rapidly degraded personality. “His addiction to wine and drugs was well known...,” he wrote. – I saw him last time near Stavropol, he struck me then with his youth and freshness. Now it was difficult to recognize him... His fantastic suit, loud nervous laughter and chaotic, abrupt conversation made a painful impression.”

Wrangel wrote his “Notes” after Slashchev changed White cause and returned to Soviet Russia. Those who saw Slashchev later, in “red” Moscow, speak of him as adequate and interesting person. Wrangel clearly went too far in trying to paint the repulsive appearance of his popular rival. Everyone knew that back in White Crimea, irreconcilable differences arose between the two military leaders.

And no wonder. Slashchev, in his own way, cruelly but effectively, fought against the disintegration of the troops and rear. Moreover, he constantly interfered in politics, annoying the commander-in-chief with reports about the need for repression, and gained a reputation as an ardent monarchist. Wrangel believed that Slashchev would discredit the White movement in relations with the Entente.

Slashchev-Krymsky

Slashchev was a master of landing troops. In June 1920, thanks to his successful operations, White Army left Crimea for operational space. But according to political reasons Wrangel in August 1920 entrusted the execution of the landing in the Kuban to the Cossack general Ulagai. The landing failed.

Slashchev at this time was thrown into an unprepared assault on the fortified Red bridgehead at Kakhovka. The assault also failed. Wrangel accused Slashchev of disintegrating the troops and removed him from command. The dismissal was given the appearance of an honorable resignation, and Wrangel allowed Slashchev to add the name Krymsky to his surname.

In November 1920, when leaving Crimea, Wrangel tried to detain Slashchev at the front under the pretext of organizing partisan detachments. But Slashchev-Krymsky made his way to evacuation together with his fighting friend and common-law wife, Nina Nechvolodova, who wore two St. George Crosses (although the circumstances of their receipt are unknown).

To Moscow in Dzerzhinsky's carriage

In Constantinople, Slashchev sharply opposed Wrangel, blaming him for the Crimean failure. In response, Wrangel initiated a “court of honor” that expelled Slashchev from the Russian army.

At this time, it was important for the Bolsheviks to find a popular White Guard military leader who could split the emigration from within. Cheka agents made contact with Slashchev in advance, using his hatred of Wrangel. It is unknown when exactly this happened, but there is information that the issue of Slashchev’s return to Soviet Russia was personally raised by Dzerzhinsky himself at a Politburo meeting. A slight majority supported Dzerzhinsky, although Lenin himself abstained.

In November 1921, after a year-long exile, Slashchev and his wife and with them several military and civilian emigrants returned to Sevastopol. The White General arrived in Moscow in the personal carriage of the Chairman of the Cheka.

In January 1922 Soviet authorities The press disseminated Slashchev's appeal to all white emigrants with a call to return to Soviet Russia. “Otherwise you will find yourself mercenaries of foreign capital...,” he inspired them Crimean hero. “Don’t you dare sell yourself out to go to war with Russia.”

Slashchev's appeal influenced a significant part of the white officers and soldiers interned in Turkey and Poland. Many thousands repatriated in the first months of 1922.

"The way you shoot is the way you fight"

Slashchev repeatedly wrote reports asking to be sent to a combat unit, but he was left to teach at the “Vystrel” course for Red Army commanders. Future Soviet general Army Batov recalled that Slashchev’s lectures on tactics invariably aroused great interest among listeners.

Before the revolution, Slashchev was not very successful in the sciences - he graduated from the General Staff Academy one of the last in academic performance. But the disadvantage theoretical knowledge The former general made up for it with rich combat practice. He had something to tell his former enemies.

Conflicts often arose on this basis. It was said that once, in the presence of Budyonny, Slashchev sharply criticized the actions of the Red Command in the Polish campaign. Budyonny pulled out a revolver and began to shoot, but due to his drunkenness he missed. Slashchev calmly told the commander of the First Cavalry: “The way you shoot is the way you fight.”

The bloody trail that the general left behind him in the Civil War boomeranged back for him. In January 1929, Slashchev-Krymsky was shot dead in his room by a certain Lazar Kolenberg. The killer motivated his act with revenge for his brother, who was allegedly hanged on the orders of Slashchev in 1919 in Nikolaev. The killer was declared insane and released from punishment.

UNDER THE BULLETS - A DRUNKEN GENERAL

1917 shattered the illusions of the “gold-chasing column” like glass Christmas decorations. Slashchev was no exception. The collapse of the Russian army became the collapse of his life. A few months later he resigned due to health reasons. But already three months later, in January 1918
year, Slashchev, for reasons known only to him, found himself in the ranks.

On a cold Sunday morning, a broad-shouldered officer with a very pale face walked into the headquarters of the Volunteer Army in Novocherkassk.
in which all the muscles twitched nervously. It was Colonel Slashchev. He clicked his heels and, putting the documents on the table, said
commission responsible for recruiting officers: “Ready to take command of the unit.” A few days later in one of
Novocherkassk cafes Yakov was called out by staff captain Sukharev, his former colleague. They hugged, and after a short
conversation, Sukharev exclaimed: “Yakov Alexandrovich, my dear! Do you remember your hobbies for partisan warfare?! It is quite possible that
your hobby can become a reality. “Everything will come in handy in the fight against the Bolshevik scum.”

Sukharev was not mistaken - during six months of waging guerrilla warfare in the steppes of the North Caucasus, the restless colonel not only
defeated a dozen Red Army detachments, but was also able to put together a detachment of five thousand Kuban Cossacks. Being not very
ambitious, he agreed to the position of chief of staff, and gave command of the corps to an officer “from the locals” - General Shkuro.

On July 12, 1918, Shkuro’s cavalry corps entered Stavropol from the western outskirts, where it united with the main units
Volunteer Army. However, a few months later the general was removed from command of the corps for looting and robberies.
At the beginning of April of the following year, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Volunteer Army Anton Denikin assigned Yakov Slashchev
the next military rank - major general, he soon took command of a 5,000-strong division and led it to Moscow.

Lightning attacks by Slashchev's landing forces on Odessa and Nikolaev made it possible to take control of the entire right-bank Ukraine. Slashchevtsy
They smashed everyone - the Reds, the Makhnovists, the Greens, and even the well-armed regiments of Simon Petlyura. The general's trump card was
night raids. Yakov Aleksandrovich lived on the front line extremely secluded, communicating with few of the officers, often standing under hurricane
full-length fire, smoking cigarettes - he was only interested in the enemy’s positions. But behind the feigned indifference and
The cruelty was crazy suffering from old wounds, pain for a departed Russia, longing for loved ones.

In the evenings, unable to bear the aching wounds, Slashchev doused himself with alcohol. When alcohol stopped helping, Yakov Aleksandrovich switched
for cocaine. At that time, this drug was popular not only among the St. Petersburg elite, but also among senior officers.
Slashchev could not help but use it, because he became addicted to drugs in officer hospitals, where he took these drugs,
to numb the pain. Somewhere in August, orderlies found the famous Alexander Vertinsky near Odessa and with lightning speed
taken to the carriage to General Slashchev. When the mortally frightened chansonnier entered the headquarters carriage, two icy
eyes with pupils similar to the barrels of revolvers. Yakov Aleksandrovich pointed to the piano that had ended up in the carriage unknown and said:
“Please, Mr. Vertinsky. Show me what you are capable of.” Vertinsky looked at the staff maps laid out on the table and
replied: “Perhaps I will interfere with your meeting?” Slashchev grinned and turned to the table. Vertinsky began to sing. he sang
all night and only in the morning was he able to escape from the smoky carriage, where only the man mad with fatigue, vodka and cocaine was awake
general with his common-law wife Nina. The latter went through a long front road with Slashchev and more than once pulled him out on her
from under the bullets. According to staff certificates, she was classified as cadet N.

In October 1919, General Slashchev’s corps completely defeated several Red divisions and almost drove the dashing Nestor into the ground
Makhno. The latter cut his way through Slashchev’s barriers with a small detachment and went to Central Ukraine, where, under his black
Anarchist banners became more than 100 thousand peasants. Denikin, in a rage, sends a telephone message to the general: “I order you immediately
defeat the Makhnovist gangs, and hang Makhno himself at the railway signal." On November 16, Slashchev, under the guise of preparing for
holidays concentrated the main forces of the corps near Yekaterinoslav and in the dead of night dealt a terrible blow to superior forces
enemy forces. White Guard armored trains burst into the city, paving the way for the horsemen of the crazy general. Makhno barely
managed to leave the city. In the morning, the general distributed St. George's crosses to soldiers and officers and hung captured Makhnovists on pillars.

The delegation of wealthy townspeople was never able to meet with Slashchev: “The general drinks on the occasion of the victory and is completely stupefied.” This
moment Makhno attacked the city. And it seemed that there was no longer any salvation for the “golden chasers.” But at the decisive moment, in the midst of the Makhnovist
The distraught General Slashchev flew in. He was in an unbuttoned jacket, with a saber in his hands. Behind him rushed howling wild
in the voices of a hundred Kuban bodyguards. Desperate grunts, led by the general, instantly made a “clearing” of bodies with sabers.
The Makhnovists fled in horror, but were overtaken by the Slashchevites and destroyed. Nestor Ivanovich disappeared somewhere in the steppe. White Guard
celebrated the victory for three days.

But this victory was no longer decisive. By the spring of 1920, only the Slashchev corps retained combat effectiveness and
mobility, while the main divisions and regiments retreated in panic to the Crimean Peninsula. Three thousand exhausted
With continuous battles of Slashchev's bayonets and sabers all winter, defending Perekop, they repulsed the attacks of the Reds. Yakov Alexandrovich collected
the remnants of the white troops and, having formed an additional corps near Odessa and Novorossiysk, as well as using all their military
the art of the strategist, extended the civil war for another fourteen months. An order was issued where the commander of all corps
announced: “I announce to everyone that while I command the troops, I will not leave Crimea and I make the defense of Crimea a matter of not only duty, but also
honor." He was popular and known on both sides of the front line: white reporters sang odes to him, and the red ones, although they hated him,
respected. And they called it nothing more than “Slashchev the hangman”. In fact, he was Slashchev-Krymsky. The last prefix to
he received the name as a gift from Wrangel “... for outstanding services in the defense of Crimea.” And yet Wrangel and Slashchev furiously
hated each other. The Baron spreads rumors about Slashchev's drug and alcohol abuse. At this very time
the mortally tired general, having taken command of three corps, led the summer offensive. But in the fall the Reds switched to
offensive and began to “drive” white units into Crimea. The restless general was still trying to organize partisan detachments, but, seeing
demoralization of morale, I gave up this idea. And one night Slashchev with the banner of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment burst into
with his fighting friend Nina on the icebreaker "Muromets" and left for Istanbul.

Here he met Baron Wrangel, whom he accused of stupidity, theft and cowardice. In response, the baron arranges for the obstinate general
trial in absentia deprives him of his rank, orders and the right to wear a military uniform. But Slashchev did not care about Wrangel’s verdicts. He
was a hereditary nobleman and an officer to the core. And no one could deprive him of his titles and military awards except the emperor.

After some time, on the streets of Istanbul, Yakov Alexandrovich again met chansonnier Vertinsky. The singer later recalled:
"He lived in a small dirty house on the outskirts of the city with a bunch of people loyal to him to the end. He looked very pale and tired.
face. He is tired." But Vertinsky was mistaken. Slashchev could not get tired. He decides... to return to red Russia.

"HOW YOU SHOOT IS HOW YOU FIGHT"

The emigration was shocked: the bloodiest and most implacable enemy of the Soviet of Deputies was returning to the enemy’s camp. Among the Bolshevik
The management also panicked. Dzerzhinsky personally went to Sevastopol to meet with Slashchev. She returned with Slashchev
his wife, “cadet N.”, a comrade of Yakov Aleksandrovich, also a general, and several colonels. Dzerzhinsky returned with guests to
Moscow and, sitting in the carriage, painfully thought - what to do with Slashchev?! Nobody shoots and executes the bloody general
gathered due to phenomenal combat experience and knowledge of military art. Therefore, a few years later, in 1924, General
Slashchev headed... the Moscow courses "Vystrel" - the main military academy of the USSR at that time. "Comrade Yakov" trained cadets
“fight against landings”, “maneuver as a guarantee of victory.” Cabinet battles were now flaring up between yesterday's mortal enemies,
Discussions about tactics dragged on until midnight, turning into a friendly tea party in the command staff dormitory. True, not everyone forgot
Slashchev is offended. “Sorting out” the campaign against Warsaw, revealing the reasons for its failure, Yakov Aleksandrovich expressed the idea that the main
The reason for the failure of the campaign was the stupidity of the Red command. Budyonny, black with rage, jumped up from his seat (who, by the way,
hinted Slashchev), grabbed a revolver from its holster and began firing at the former general. Fortunately, he didn't hit. White like a wall
Yakov Aleksandrovich approached Budyonny, who had already been pinned down by this time, and said: “The way you shoot is the way you fought.” IN
In 1925, the film company "Proletarian Cinema" made a historical film about Baron Wrangel. The role of Slashchev was starred... by Yakov himself, in
the role of "cadet N." -- his wife Nina.

He was not afraid of the revenge of his former enemies and their relatives. Slashchev had long been ready for death. He saw her around too often.

Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchev-Krymsky(Russian doref. Slashchov, December 29, 1885 [January 10] - January 11, Moscow) - Russian military leader, lieutenant general, active participant in the White movement in southern Russia.

Biography

On December 31, 1914, the Finnish Regiment was again assigned to the Life Guards, in the ranks of which it participated in the First World War. He was shell-shocked twice and wounded five times. Awarded the Arms of St. George:

• December 27, 1919 - At the head of the corps, he occupied fortifications on the Perekop Isthmus, preventing the capture of Crimea.
• Winter 1919-1920 - Head of the Defense of Crimea.
• February 1920 - Commander of the Crimean Corps (formerly 3rd AK)
• March 25, 1920 - Promoted to lieutenant general with appointment as commander of the 2nd army corps(formerly Crimean).
• On April 5, 1920, General Slashchev submitted a report to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army in Crimea and Poland, General P. N. Wrangel, indicating the main problems at the front and with a number of proposals.
• From May 24, 1920 - Commander of the successful white landing at Kirillovka on the coast of the Azov Sea.
• August 1920 - After the inability to liquidate the Kakhovsky bridgehead of the Reds, supported by large-caliber TAON guns (heavy artillery special purpose) Reds from the right bank of the Dnieper, submitted his resignation.
• August 1920 - At the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief.
• August 18, 1920 - By order of General Wrangel, he received the right to be called “Slashchev-Krymsky”.
• November 1920 - As part of the Russian army, he was evacuated from Crimea to Constantinople.

Intrigues are growing incredibly in the small territory of Crimea. The fight is going on with the indigenous defenders of the front, up to and including me, invading even my privacy(alcohol, cocaine).

He was fearless, constantly leading his troops to attack by personal example. He had nine wounds, the last of which, a concussion to the head, was received at the Kakhovsky bridgehead in early August 1920. He suffered many wounds practically on his feet. To reduce unbearable pain After being wounded in the stomach in 1919, which did not heal for more than six months, he began to inject himself with the painkiller morphine, then became addicted to cocaine, which is why his “fame” as a drug addict was assigned.

Slashchev is credited with the theory and practice of application in trench battles Browning shotguns [ ] .

After emigrating, he lived in Constantinople, vegetating in poverty and doing gardening. In Constantinople, Slashchev sharply and publicly condemned the Commander-in-Chief and his staff, for which, by the verdict of the court of honor, he was dismissed from service without the right to wear a uniform. In response to the court's decision, in January 1921 he published the book “I Demand the Court of Society and Glasnost. Defense and surrender of Crimea (Memoirs and documents).

On November 3, 1921, on the anniversary of the capture of Crimea, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the RSFSR declared an amnesty for participants in the White movement. Slashchev entered into negotiations with the Soviet authorities in Constantinople and was granted amnesty. On November 21, 1921, with the help of a former sailor and volunteer recruited by the Cheka, Batkin, together with the White Cossacks, returned to Sevastopol, from where he traveled to Moscow in Dzerzhinsky’s personal carriage. Appealed to soldiers and officers of the Russian Army with an appeal to return to Soviet Russia. In 1924 he published the book “Crimea in 1920. Excerpts from Memoirs.” Since June 1922 - teacher of tactics at the Shot command school.

[Slashchev] taught brilliantly, the lectures were full of people, and the tension in the audience was sometimes like in battle. Many commanders-listeners themselves fought with Wrangel’s troops, including on the approaches to the Crimea, and the former White Guard general did not spare either causticity or ridicule when dismantling this or that operation of our troops.

Death

A psychiatric examination found Kolenberg insane at the time of the crime. The case was closed and archived, and Lazar Kohlenberg was released.

Historian A. Kavtaradze does not rule out that Slashchev could have become one of the first victims of repressions against military experts, former generals and officers of the old Russian army.

On January 11, A. [typo] Slashchev was killed in his apartment. An unknown person entered the apartment, shot at Slashchev and disappeared. Slashchev, former commander of one of Wrangel’s armies, in lately was a teacher at rifle and tactical courses for advanced training of command personnel.

On January 11, as we reported, a former Wrangel general and teacher was killed in his apartment in Moscow military school Ya. A. Slashchev. The killer, named Kolenberg, 24 years old, stated that he committed the murder out of revenge for his brother, who was executed by order of Slashchev during the Civil War. Since 1922, from the moment of his voluntary transfer to serve in the Red Army, Y. A. Slashchev worked as a teacher of tactics at the “Shot” courses. Ya. A. Slashchev came from the nobility. He began his service in the tsarist army in 1902. In 1911, he graduated from the General Staff Academy and, refusing to enroll in the General Staff, went to serve in the Corps of Pages, where he taught military science until the outbreak of World War II. He began the war as a company commander, and in 1916 he was appointed regiment commander. During the civil war, Ya. A. Slashchev was on the side of the whites. In Denikin's army he served as commander-in-chief of the Crimean troops and Northern Tavria, later under Wrangel he was appointed commander of a separate corps. During his stay in Crimea, Slashchev brutally dealt with the peasant workers. Having not gotten along with Wrangel for official and personal reasons, he was recalled and left for Constantinople. In Constantinople, Wrangel demoted Slashchev to the rank and file. In 1922, Slashchev voluntarily returned from emigration to Russia, repented of his crimes against the working class and was amnestied by the Soviet government. Since 1922, he has been conscientiously working as a teacher at Vystrel and collaborating in the military press. Recently he published the work “General Tactics”. An investigation is underway into the murder. Yesterday at 16:30, the cremation of the body of the late Ya. A. Slashchev took place in the Moscow crematorium.

In Moscow, General Ya. A. Slashchev, one of the active participants, was killed in his apartment white movement, who has earned a very sad memory for his exceptional cruelty and recklessness. Already in Crimea, Slashchev tried to replace General Wrangel at the head of the army, and then in Constantinople he published a well-known brochure in which he demanded a trial of the commander-in-chief (Wrangel). From Constantinople, Slashchev moved to Moscow, the Soviet government willingly forgave him for his sins against her and appointed him a professor at the Military Academy. However, he was unable to stay there due to extreme hostility listeners to him. Slashchev was transferred to rifle-tactical courses for improving command personnel (the so-called “Shot”), where he remained until last days as a lecturer who managed to publish several works on military issues during his stay in the USSR. Slashchev’s residence in Moscow was carefully hidden.<…>Recent reports from Berlin newspapers talk about the arrest of the killer, 24-year-old Kohlenberg, who said that he killed Slashchev for the shooting of his brother, committed by Slashchev in Crimea. Moscow claims that the murder was committed several days ago, but they did not immediately decide to report it. Slashchev's body was burned in a Moscow crematorium. Unschlicht and other representatives of the Revolutionary Military Council were present at the burning.

<…>Subsequently, it will become clear whether he was killed by a hand that was truly driven by a sense of vengeance, or that was driven by the requirement of expediency and safety. After all, it’s strange that the “avenger” is more four years could not finish off a person who did not hide behind the thickness Kremlin walls and in the labyrinth of the Kremlin palaces, but lived peacefully, without security, in his private apartment. And at the same time, it is understandable that during hours of noticeable shaking of the ground under one’s feet, it is necessary to eliminate a person known for his determination and mercilessness. Here it was necessary to really hurry up and quickly use both some kind of murder weapon and the oven of the Moscow crematorium, which could quickly destroy traces of the crime.

Slashchov-Krymsky later taught in Moscow at the famous army courses “Shot” until he was shot dead in 1929 by one of his students - the brother of the red underground fighter he hanged in Crimea.

Family

• Wife (1st marriage from 1913 to 1920) - Sofya Vladimirovna Kozlova, born in 1891, the only daughter of the commander of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment, General Vladimir Apollonovich Kozlov.
• Wife (2nd marriage since 1920) - Nina Nikolaevna Nechvolodova (“cadet Nechvolodov”), born in 1899, niece of the head of the Main Artillery Directorate of the Red Army, fought side by side with the white general since 1918. She had battle wounds.
• Daughter - Vera Yakovlevna Slashcheva, born in 1915, from her first marriage. In 1920, she and her mother went to France.

Awards

Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchev. 1918

In the twenties, there was, perhaps, no more colorful figure at the commander’s courses at Vystrel, the main “military academy” in the USSR at that time, than “Professor Yasha.” Judge for yourself: former guardsman, graduate of the Nikolaev Academy General Staff, who went through the entire First World War in the trenches. During the Civil War he was the chief of staff of General Shkuro; in Denikin’s Volunteer Army and Wrangel’s Armed Forces of the South of Russia he commanded a brigade, division and corps, and wore lieutenant general’s shoulder straps.

And now he teaches wisdom to the Red commanders, whom he recently successfully defeated on the battlefields. He teaches, sarcastically picking apart all the mistakes and miscalculations of the authoritative army commanders and division commanders of the army of workers and peasants.

At one of these classes, Semyon Budyonny, who became a legend during his lifetime, could not stand the caustic comments about the actions of his 1st Cavalry Army, discharged towards the ex white general revolving drum. And he just spat on his fingers, stained with chalk, and calmly said towards the silent audience: “This is how you shoot, this is how you fight.”
The name of this extraordinary man was Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchev.

Slashchev was “lucky” during his lifetime. At home, in the white camp, and even more so in the red camp, he was awarded several different titles at once: “Slashchev - Crimean”, “Slashchev - hangman”, later, in exile, “General - Crimean traitor”

But the soldiers of the White Guard, loving him, called him simply, even familiarly: “General Yasha.” Slashchev was proud of this title. Yes, they talked about him with shudder. But what’s interesting is that he signed more than a hundred hanging sentences! More than half of them were not his enemies-opponents (underground Bolsheviks, Komsomol members), but their own whites, who committed vandalism, looting, robbery, theft, desertion, cowardice, and so on.
*By the way, the stripes on the left sleeve of Slashchev’s Circassian coat mean how many times he was wounded in the Great War, and a couple of times very seriously, plus shell shock.

Slashchev fought furiously against criminality in Crimea, and in particular in the White Army.

So, in a gambling house in Simferopol (on the corner of Pushkinskaya and Ekaterininskaya streets), Slashchev personally arrested three officers who had robbed a Jewish jeweler and ordered them to be hanged immediately. He even executed a soldier for a goose stolen from a peasant. He didn’t even take into account the colonel’s shoulder straps and pulled up the colonel, saying, “You can’t dishonor the shoulder straps,” who was patronized by Lieutenant General Wrangel himself.
Yakov Slashchev also became famous for his brilliant operation against the Crimean anarchists. In Simferopol, in Sobachya (now Petrovskaya) Balka in March 1920, General Slashchev’s corps counterintelligence managed to catch “the elusive international terrorists Witold Brzostek and his famous “ field wife”, known simply as “Maruska”.

This far from “sweet couple” arrived in Simferopol with sole purpose: to execute General Slashchev on behalf of the Free Russia anarchist party. "Executed"! Both hung on poles near the Lithuanian barracks in Simferopol on March 19, 1919. Slashchev hated the Reds (how much did he know about them!), did not tolerate liberals (“They destroyed the army!”), spoke cynically about the white “elite,” and spat at the sight of “ rear skins,” knowing their value well.

But, strange as it may seem, the name Slashchev in Crimea was pronounced more with respect than with fear.
“Despite the executions,” General P. I. Averianov wrote in his memoirs, “Yakov Aleksandrovich was popular among all classes of the population of the peninsula, not excluding workers. And how could it be otherwise if the general was everywhere in person: he himself entered the crowd of protesters without security, he himself sorted out the complaints of trade unions and industrialists, he himself raised the chains to attack. Yes, they were afraid of him, but at the same time they also hoped, knowing for sure: Slashchev would not betray him or sell him. He had an amazing and, for many, incomprehensible ability to inspire trust and devoted love among the troops.”

Slashchev's popularity among soldiers and trench officers was truly prohibitive. Both of them called him “our Yasha” behind his back, which Yakov Aleksandrovich was very proud of. As for local population, then many Crimeans seriously believed that Slashchev was actually none other than Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, brother of the murdered emperor and heir to the Russian throne!

But the general was truly desperately brave, despised death, and prone to risky adventurism. Slashchev's bravery was the talk of the town. He was wounded at least seven times. Attacks were more than once led by him personally.

Discipline in the Slashchev corps, unlike other white corps, was ironclad. Therefore, it was his corps in the White Guard that was considered the most reliable. The general was a talented tactician and strategist. It is no coincidence that even during the Civil War, Slashchev’s operations against the Red Army were carefully studied at the Red headquarters at the highest level.

General with principles

Back in the summer of 1919, people were in awe of Slashchev and fawned over him. After all, it was none other than him who defended Crimea at the end of 1919 during the first onslaught of the Reds. Crimea became a gift to General Wrangel from Slashchev.

General Wrangel personally proclaimed a toast in honor of “Slashchev-Krymsky” for the brilliant summer Crimean campaign in the Koktebel region. Slashchev’s landing force of 5 thousand bayonets, then he pushed back the Reds and caused panic in the rear of the Crimean Soviet Republic.

But his constant scandals with “rear rats” in general’s uniforms, open bullying of local, democratically minded self-government represented by the Cadets, Socialist Revolutionaries, and Mensheviks greatly tarnished the general’s image. The leaders of local democracy who protested against terror had little joy from “General Yasha.”

And for the fans " have a fun life“Slashchev didn’t give up

Consider his orders, posted all over Crimea, with his characteristic exotic rhetoric: “...seal wine warehouses and shops. I will punish mercilessly... Throughout the entire territory of Crimea I prohibit gambling everywhere card game. I will punish the owners of all brothels not with fines, but as direct accomplices of Bolshevism... For now, beware, and if you don’t listen, don’t blame them for your premature death... General Slashchev"

"Running". Vladislav Dvorzhetsky as Khludov

And from the front, the general sent out wall bulletins with his own specifics and with the same rhetoric: “... Disgrace! They dared to allow themselves to be attacked, they did not attack themselves... I order: not a step back, but attack forward! Wherever the situation requires, I will leave myself... I confirm: I will not leave Crimea! Of the two enemy armies I defeated one, I’m taking on the second. I’m pleased with the brave work of the volunteers and Cossacks... The population is calm, but inert. We need some zest... General Slashchev.”

It should be noted that at the most dramatic moment of the battles, when the Reds were pressing, General Slashchev near Chongarskaya Gatya gave the order to his faithful cadets to form a column, the musicians to play a march and, under hurricane artillery fire from the Reds, under the unfurled Russian banner, he went on the attack on Gat. It was beautiful and scary...

“Dangerous. Obviously crazy..."

Gradually, the confrontation between the Denikin Headquarters and the rebellious general grew into an outright struggle. Concerned, General Denikin sends his representative, Colonel Nog, to Sevastopol, to the all-powerful Slashchev in Crimea, to help the general.

All of Noga’s help, however, consisted in the fact that he, without hesitation, followed all of Slashchev’s steps and reported them to General Headquarters personally to General Denikin.


Slashchev's headquarters in Crimea. In the photo is Lieutenant General Slashchev (third from the right), to his right is the chief of staff - Major General Dubyago (a friend of Slashchev) and the head of the operations department - Colonel Orlov. To the left of Slashchev is his wife, orderly Nechvolodova (she was wounded twice in battle and personally saved Slashchev from death). Crimea, Sevastopol, 1920

Denikin leaves the stage, or rather, the Entente “left” him. Generals Wrangel and Slashchev, like roosters, ruffled their feathers in front of each other. Not by chance. Slashchev did not seek the “throne”. But a smart tactician, he decisively spoke out near Kakhovka, proposing his plan to defeat the Reds against Wrangel’s plan.

What was the essence of the conflict?

Wrangel was bound hand and foot by the Entente, which provided him, General Wrangel, with protection. Slashchev considered himself obliged not to the Entente, but to his own talent as a commander! “General Yasha” says in Russian: the Poles are attacking the Reds from the West, we need to strike from the south to meet them. But Wrangel receives direct instructions from Paris: to strike with all forces in the Donbass. It was there that before the revolution the French owned many mines and factories, and the interests of preserving and increasing their capital were more important to them than the needlessly shed Russian blood.

Wrangel was far from a fool. He was simply a realist and understood perfectly well: Slashchev was right! But it was impossible to quarrel with France. There was a flow of weapons and uniforms from France to Crimea. It was France, and not England (which at one time refused asylum to Nicholas II and his family), if something happened, that promised to shelter the whites.

Friction between the two generals began earlier, even before the election of the commander-in-chief of the White troops in the south after the resignation of General Denikin. The Allies set last point: “Denikin has done his job - Denikin must leave!” It was decided in London and Paris that we, democrats, could not deal with Slashchev. He, they say, smells of Russian monarchism, from which a very small bridge is needed for the Russian colossus to be reborn.

A solemn ceremony follows for the return of General Wrangel from Constantinople to Sevastopol

Guard of honor. Heartfelt speeches. Bravura marches. Memorable, last celebrations of White Russia on the last piece of White Russian land. Seventy generals gather in the palace of the Fleet Commander in Sevastopol for a council and, in the spirit of democracy, vote for General Wrangel to the post of Commander-in-Chief.

General Slashchev in Crimea

Only one General Slashchev spat on the floor and, thundering towards the exit in his boots, left for his home in Dzhankoy. In Dzhankoy, the general came to his senses. He sends congratulations to Wrangel on his election to such a high post and even comes to command a parade of troops on this occasion. Wrangel, just in case, curtsies and ... assigns Slashchev the rank of lieutenant general with his sentence for a narrow circle: “He’s popular, you bastard, among the soldiers!”
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Wrangel, as far as he could, tried to look democratic. They did a lot to make the last Russian piece of land look presentable, in the best European spirit. Nowhere in the White camp was there any smell of democracy, only in Crimea! Even the external European civilized gloss of General Yudenich faded before Wrangel. But Slashchev openly laughs at Wrangel’s efforts to “democratize a piece of Russian land in Crimea."

Wrangel's patience is running out. He demanded that incriminating evidence be collected against Slashchev. The following description of “General Yasha” is placed on the table of the Commander-in-Chief: “Dangerous, clearly crazy. Capable of anything: blowing up Crimea, going over to the side of Makhno and even the Bolsheviks...”


"Running". Vladislav Dvorzhetsky as Khludov

General Slashchev in Constantinople

After the defeat in the Crimea, together with the remnants of the White Army, Lieutenant General Yakov Slashchev and his faithful twenty-year-old wife Nina Nechvolodova find themselves on the outskirts of Constantinople, in a hut made of boards, plywood and tin.

The general began to live by his own labor: he grows vegetables and sells them in the city markets. In his rare moments of rest, he reads the press. He is remembered. They write about him. Both Reds and Whites curse him, and his “allies” shun him. Only a few officers remained loyal to him. And then his supporters bring the general the text of Wrangel’s secret agreement with the Entente.

It turns out that he promised so much to Paris and London that from the “great, indivisible Russia”, in the event of a White victory, only horns and legs would remain. And, here, Slashev openly expresses his opinion:

“The Reds are my enemies, but they did the main thing - my work: they revived great Russia!” And then he snapped in his own spirit: “...what they called it - I don’t care!”

Slashchev’s statement immediately becomes famous in Moscow. Dzerzhinsky makes a shocking move to the Bolshevik Center. At a meeting of the Politburo, he puts on the agenda the issue of “inviting former General Slashchev (though already demoted to the rank and file by Wrangel) to serve... in the Red Army.”

Opinion in the Politburo was divided. Against: Zinoviev, Bukharin, Rykov and some others. For: Kamenev, Stalin, Voroshilov. Abstained - Lenin. And yet Dzerzhinsky insists on his proposal.
In November 1921, on the Italian steamer "Jean" Slashchev, Major General Milkovsky, Major General Sekretov, former boss division General Gravitsky, Colonels Gilbikh, Mezernetsky, Slashchev’s wife Nina Nechvolodova (already with a child), her cousin, Prince Trubetskoy arrive in Sevastopol.

Slashchev saw a tormented Russia, the collapse of which was marked by the February revolution. It is no coincidence that while still in Crimea, he intensively re-read the Bible, given to him by the Archbishop of Simferopol and Karasubazar. Slashchev’s hand in the Gospel of Luke (chapter 11, vv. 17-18) highlights: “Every kingdom divided against itself will be desolate, and a house that has fallen apart within itself will fall...”. Alas, when the Bible is poorly read, history repeats itself...

The homeland highly appreciated the patriotic act of the general. She perceived him not as a soldier, but as a general. A little later, former white generals I. Klochkov, E. Zelenin, colonels D. Zhitkevich, V. Orzhanevsky, N. Klimovich, M. Lyalin and others joined Slashchev’s group. All of them received high command and teaching positions in the Red Army and freely performed in discussions on the history of the Civil War. In general, the reconciliation of the Reds with the Whites, who stopped resisting, in to a certain extent, took place back in the 20s.

*In 1918, Slashchev met the handsome cadet Nechvolodov, who was one of his orderlies. Suddenly it turned out that under this name was hiding 18-year-old Nina Nechvolodova, ironically the niece of the chief of artillery of the Red Army. But love is stronger than related feelings. For three years of the Civil War, Ninochka did not leave her colonel (and then general), she was wounded several times, and only in 1920 did they formalize their relationship. It was Nina who later played a certain role in the fate of her husband...
Yakov Aleksandrovich’s wife, Nina Nechvolodova, also contributed to the education of painters.

She organized an amateur theater at the Shot course, where she staged several classical plays with the participation of the wives and children of the students. In 1925, the film company "Proletarskoe Kino" filmed feature film about Baron Wrangel and the capture of Crimea. In this film, Slashchev himself starred in the role of General Slashchev, and in the role of “Junker N.” - his wife!

Of course, Slashchev's position was far from ideal. He periodically submitted reports requesting a transfer to command position into the troops, which he was naturally denied. His lectures increasingly began to be booed by “politically conscious” listeners. Incomprehensible and unpleasant personalities began to swirl around Yakov Alexandrovich. And “Professor Yasha” seriously got ready to go to Europe, intending to spend the rest of his days as a private citizen...

In 1922, Slashchev wrote in his own hand an appeal to the officers and generals of the former White Guard who were in exile - to follow his example and return from white emigration to their homeland. By the end of 1922, 223 thousand former emigrants returned to Russia. Abroad, at white headquarters, among the “irreconcilables,” General Slashchev is sentenced to death in absentia. The step, in general, is understandable for the white side.

January 11, 1929 former general, who became the Red commander Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchev, was shot at point-blank range by a Trotskyist who assured at the trial that he was avenging his brother, who was hanged by General Slashchev. He could not prove the fact of revenge, but, nevertheless, he was soon released...

Lieutenant General of the White Guard, “red professor” of the Red Army, brilliant tactician and strategist of Russian military thought, Yakov Slashchev, went down in history as a patriot of Russia, who fought for its greatness, unity and glory!

One of the most “twisted” destinies of the early twentieth century ended tragically. She also interested such a master of the pen as Mikhail Bulgakov. It was from Slashchev that he copied General Roman Khludov in the play “Running”...

*Since June 1922 - teacher of tactics at the Shot command school.
Slashchev taught brilliantly, the lectures were full of people, and the tension in the audience was sometimes like in battle. Many commanders-listeners themselves fought with Wrangel’s troops, including on the approaches to the Crimea, and the former White Guard general did not spare either causticity or ridicule when analyzing this or that operation of our troops.

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He became the prototype of General Roman Khludov in M. A. Bulgakov’s play “Running”.
One of the main characters of the third and fourth books of the tetralogy by I. Bolgarin, G. Seversky and V. Smirnov “Adjutant of His Excellency”
The central character of a number of chapters of the book “Wrangel in Crimea”
One of minor characters Andrey Valentinov’s novel “Phlegethon”, which tells about the White movement in Crimea.
Several episodes from Svetlana Sheshunova’s novel “The Birdcatcher’s Easter” tell about Slashchev’s activities in the North Caucasus and Crimea.
Igor Voevodin was awarded the Crown of Thorns Badge for his book “Unforgiven” about General Slashchev.
The image of Slashchev is embodied in the feature film “Big and Small War” (Moldova-film, 1980) by Sergei Desnitsky.

A. Samarin. www.ruscrimea.ru/rm/62/page_5.htm