Dmitri Pavlovich Parsky (Дмитрий Павлович Парский) (17 (26) October, 1866 - 20 December 1921) was a Russian general who commanded the 3rd Army from 9 September 1917 to 8 November 1917.
In 1893 he attended the General Staff Academy. He was the first battle-experienced Tsarist General to offer his services to the Red Army,[1] explaining his viewpoint thus
- "I am far from this Bolshevism you preach. But I am ready to work honourably not only with them, but with anyone, even the Devil and his disciples, if only to save Russia from German slavery."[2]
He died of typhus in 1921.
Honours and awards[]
- Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd class (1896);
- Order of St. Anne 3rd class (1900);
- Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class (1903);
- Order of St. Anne, 2nd class with swords (1906);
- Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class with swords and bow (1906);
- Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class (1909, 31 January 1910);
- Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st class (6 December 1913)
- Order of St. George, 4th class (2 June 1915)
- Gold Sword for Bravery (1916)
References[]
- ↑ From Tsarist General to Red Army Commander by Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich, translated by Vladimir Vezey, Progress Publishers, 1966
- ↑ The Russian Civil War by Evan Mawdsley, p83
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