On April 7, 1951, Sergey Nikolayevich Voitskhovsky died in the lake of the correctional labor camp (Irkutsk region). The biography of this man worthy of a multi-part film-a participant in the First World War, one of the key commanders of the Czechoslovak Corps, the major general of the army Admiral Kolchak, a participant in the great Siberian ice campaign. He stormed Yekaterinburg a week after the execution of the royal family, and in February 1920 he was ready to take Irkutsk to free Kolchak.
In 1921, Voitsakhovsky entered the service of the army of Czechoslovakia. In his new homeland, he managed to make a brilliant career: in 1935 he was appointed commander of the Prague Military District, and in 1938 – the first Czechoslovak army.
During the Munich conspiracy, Wojciekhovsky was one of the few higher officers who advocated armed resistance to Hitler. But the leadership of Czechoslovakia decided to surrender. During the Second World War, the general refused to cooperate with the Nazis, but, despite this, in May 1945 he was arrested by Soviet counterintelligence and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The place of his burial is still unknown.
One of the most important pages in his biography (as in the history of the Civil War in Russia) is the performance of the Czechoslovak corps in May 1918. The history of this compound originates in 1914, when a Czech squad was formed in Kyiv. It was completed from the Czechs and Slovaks who lived in the territory of the Russian Empire. Subsequently, in the Czechoslovak national formations, prisoners of war-the Slavs who served in the Austria-Hungary army did not burn the desire to fight for the Habsburgs and surrendered massively. Many of them were ready to fight weapons in their hands against the Austrians, including the notorious Yaroslav Hashka. The latter, by the way, was one of the few legionnaires who crossed the side of the Bolsheviks in 1918.
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