Background
Konstantin Konstantinovich Mamontov (Mamantov) was born on October 16, 1869, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. He was of gentry origin.
the Nicholas Cavalry School
the Cross " For the Steppe campaign»
Don Army commanders including Lieutenant-General Konstantin Mamontov on the right. (The cross over Mamontov's head was drawn by the photographer after he died.)
Konstantin Konstantinovich Mamontov (Mamantov) was born on October 16, 1869, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. He was of gentry origin.
In 1899, Mamontov graduated from the Nicholas Cavalry School. After being in a school cadet in the Nicholas Military Academy, he was a student of the prestigious Nicholas Cavalry School in Saint Petersburg graduating in 1890, when he joined the regiment of mounted grenadiers of the Imperial Guard as a cornet.
Since 1899 Konstantin Konstantinovich Mamontov served in the regiment of mounted grenadiers of the Imperial Guard, in the Third Regiment of Cossacks of the Don. In 1900, Konstantin Konstantinovich was enlisted in the Cossack army class of the Razdorskoye settlement.
During the First World War he commanded the Cossack units. After October 1917, he sided with the White movement. Konstantin Konstantinovich was one of the leaders of the Anti-Bolshevik movement in the Don and in the North Caucasus.In March 1918, Mamontov led the Cossack rebellion in the 2nd Don District. In April-May 1918, he was appointed as a military cavalry group commander of the Don army which was fighting near Tsaritsyno. In the Armed forces of the Southern Russia commanded the Combined Cossack corps. In August-September 1919, carried out a cavalry raid on the rear of the Southern front of the Red Army, having passed through Voronezh Governorate from North to South. In November 1919, the Mamontov’s corps was defeated by Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny’s cavalry corps near Kastornoye. For that defeat on December 2, 1919 Anton Ivanovich Denikin suspended Mamontov from command, but after a few days re-appointed to his post.
Mamontov died on 14 February 1920 in Ekaterinodar of typhus.
Quotes from others about the person
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, marshal of the Soviet Union: "I thought of Mamontov as the most capable cavalry commander of all the ones from the cavalry corps of the Krasnov's and Denikin's armies. His decisions were mainly proper and audacious. Acting against our infantry, he cleverly used the mobility of his cavalry and, as a result, made significant progress" .