[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Russian Imperial Army

[Günther Böhm]

Royal Natzke schrieb:

>They were stationed for a time in Moscow in the Grandier sapper battalion of His Imperial Highness Grand duke Peter Nikolaevich. I assume that was the military guard of the czar.
>
Hello Dorothy,
Grand duke Pjotr Nikolajevich (* 10./22.1.1864, + 17.6.1931, see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Peter_Nikolaevich_of_Russia ) 
was a grandson of Tzar Nikolaj I. and an occultist of ill fame. His 
father was set under trusteeship because of his extreme financial 
speculations. I don't think that his sapper (pioneer) battalion was part 
of the imperial guard.

>They graded my father with"excellent conduct, zeal toward service and firm grasp of his duties".He was promoted to "subofficer".They listed several other detachments. His brother died of "pluerisy" in 1908 while in Moscow. I have no knowledge of what was going on in the country and government at the time.
>
I think he was brought to a military hospital in Moscow because of his 
pleurosis (see 
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2601/is_0010/ai_2601001078 ) 
which frequently is an acquired secondary infection caused by a pneumonia.

1904 and 1905 were catastrophic years of war and revolution for the 
Russian Empire
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War and 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 ).

Günther