Biography of Lazarus Bichekhov

Born on November 15, Lazar was a godson of the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and was friends with his peers Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich and his sister Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and often spent summer with them in Tsarskoye Selo. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Real School and the Moscow Military School on the 1st category. The coronet from April 22 in the year with the beginning of hostilities in Persia against the rebellious Kurds, Bichekhov and his regiment took part in the battles.

He was wounded by three bullets in the chest right through. Together with a high reward, the hero was granted an amount of 35 thousand rubles. Later, Lazar Feodorovich came out with a disabled person and resigned. After the outbreak of World War I asked the sovereign’s highest consent to enter the service and then went to the Austrian front, where, as part of the division of General Arutyunov, he reached the Carpathians and was promoted to the rank of Yesaul and then in the rank of military foreman.

In the year, he became the commander of the escort of Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich in the native division, and then transferred closer to the house to the Caucasian Front, where he continued to participate in military operations. In addition, in the city, after the Bolshevik coup, the detachment broke up, but Bichekhov continued to fight and joined the English parts of General Densterville, fought against the Turks.

The detachment totaled about 3 thousand people, the basis of which were Kuban Cossacks. Participant of the white movement. Then he was promoted to General General Boldyrev with the title of commander of the troops of the West Caspian coast. Since August 4, in Azerbaijan, he was enthusiastically met by the local population suffering from robberies and the arbitrariness of the Baku Communists and local Bolsheviks.

He blocked the Turkin oil to the Turks, waged a struggle against the Bolshevik groups in the Lenkorani region and in the Trans -Caspian region, for which he was already produced by Admiral Kolchak in generals.

Thus, Bicherakhov was promoted to this rank three times again produced by the English general. Then he began to negatively relate to the English troops. Kuznetsov V. He perfectly understood the purpose of England to seize Baku oil, as she captured in Batumi, the Marganese of Chiatursky mines and frantically took him to her. " It is said that General Bichekhov hit General Thomson with his hand: “What you think will never come true, regardless of the image of the rule in Russia.

The Russian people will never give you a naught of oil regions. You themselves know the importance of oil at this time. From a year in exile. Having large amounts in the hands of Bichekhov created a special commission, which he instructed to distribute these amounts. On Russian public and political affairs, as he was from the officers of the Volunteer Army, who at that time was in London and also knew Buchekhov: "Passing by the restaurant of the Savoy Hotel, I drew attention to a group of Russian officers in the form and recognized Bichekhov among them.

He lived in this hotel with his headquarters, consisting of three people. All of them were considered the "guests" of the English king and this hotel was reserved for him. It turned out later that this was not a simple hospitality for the merits of Bichekhov to the British, but a simple trap. Buchekhov with his headquarters just wanted to isolate from Dobroarmia. He was invited to London to discuss the plan of future work to fight against the Bolsheviks, but he could not get a meeting with the military authorities.

Wanting to help Bicherakhov, I arranged for him to meet with Nabokov, our attorney in Russian affairs. Nabokov, in turn, arranged a meeting with General Golovin, military representative of Admiral Kolchak and General Denikin. The meeting did not give anything. Then I made him a meeting with the English journalist Williams. The latter wrote in the English newspaper Bichekhov's brilliant description.

Then I arranged Bichekhov with a meeting with Sir Samuel Chorus, a member of the parliament and a friend of Sazonov. Subsequently, the choir became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Baldwin’s office, but retired and went to the House of Lords. The choir was at one time the head of the British intelligence in St. Petersburg and he knew both the army and the yard.

Bichekhov’s choir made a favorable impression. Then there were meetings with the director of the Russian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with two large English generals. Finally, the most interesting meeting of Bichekhov with Lord Kerzon took place. I was present at this meeting as a translator, since Bicherakhov did not trust the official translators. Lord Kerzon accepted us kindly.

Although he was an English translator officer, but I played his role. Kerzon thanked Bichekhov for the assistance of the English troops in Messopotamia: "I heard a lot of good things about your actions. The English government is very grateful to you and I am glad to express this gratitude to you, but, unfortunately, we cannot pay you the amount of money that you ask for.

Now it is difficult to do it." These words bent Buchekhov. He used to ask the British to fulfill their moral duty - to reward the ranks of his detachment for the victims incurred, there were many widows, orphans and cripples.Such help was promised by the English command in Messopotamia. There were no documents, but Bichekhov believed the British for the word, considering them gentlemen.

Buchekhov turned pale, stood up and through his teeth, not embarrassed by the presence of the translator, said: “I don’t want to speak with him anymore. If they violate the word, I have nothing more to do here. So tell him! England is experiencing a serious financial crisis. But we are ready to do something to the general! Kerson listened carefully and nodded his head, but then you need to apply to this proposal to the ministry of the military.

cases and then this issue can be considered in the military committee. " I noticed Kerzon that so far General Bichekhov could not achieve an audience with the Minister of War and Kerzon ordered the officer - to the translator to inform the military minister about his desire to accept and listen to General Bichekhov. There were no practical consequences from this date, unless the Bichest authorities informed Bichekhov, that he and his headquarters ceased to be the “guests” of the English king and should switch to his own dependent.

”Later General Bicherakhov Lazar Feodorovich remained in London and spent on the wanted list of his friend, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, giving a large sum of the prince for this purpose. The remnants of money already in Paris distributed the remains of money to fight the Bolsheviks, friends, acquaintances and other emigrants. And he could not arrive in Northern Italy, where there was a compound, and as a result, he avoided issuing in Lienz along with Krasnov, Kelech-Girey and other leaders of Cossack and national units.

It was intended for a rather large position, but the defeat of Germany stopped all plans. Already after the Second World War, General Bichekhov lived in Germany, and in recent years in a nursing home in the city of Ulm in Bavaria. He needed money, almost completely lost his vision and died on July 22. Many friends and acquaintances, as well as colleagues, came to the funeral of the general.