Vladislav Klembovsky

July 10, 1860 (age 61)

In the military service from 1877. From 1879 Vladislav Klembovsky served in the Izmailovsky Guards Regiment. In 1885-1886, he was a General Staff officer at the headquarters of the 13th Army Corps, then a senior adjutant of the 1st Infantry Division. In 1887-1890, he was a company commander of the 1st Infantry Nevsky, later the 2nd Infantry Sofia regiments of the 1st Infantry Division. In 1890-1894 Clembovsky occupied a post of a teacher at the Tver Cavalry Cadet School. After that he was a staff officer in the management of the 1st Rifle Brigade (1894-95), a battalion commander of the 2nd Rifle Life Guards Regiment (1895-97), chief of staff of the 7th Infantry (1897-99), 11th Cavalry (September - November 1899) and the 31st Infantry (1899-1901) divisions. Since June 1901, he was the commander of the 122nd Tambov Infantry Regiment, at the head of which he took part in the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905. From October 1904, Chief of Staff of the 4th, from February 1906 – of the 10th Army Corps. In 1912-1914, he served as a chief of the 9th Infantry Division, with which he participated in the 1st World War 1914-1918. From September 1914 (official order in October) he commanded the 16th Army Corps. From December 1915 Clembovsky was the Chief of Staff of the armies of the South-Western Front, and made a significant contribution to the Brusilov breakthrough in 1916. On October - December 1916 he commanded the 11th army. On December 1916 - March 1917 was the Assistant Chief, and in March-April 1917 the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Commander. In May-September 1917 he served as a Commander-in-Chief of the armies of the Northern Front. After Kornilov's speech in 1917, he refused the offer of A. F. Kerensky to take the post of Supreme Commander. On September 1917 removed from the command of the front with the appointment of a member of the Military Council. In 1918, he voluntarily joined the Red Army, and became a member of the Military Council of the North Caucasus Front. In 1918-1920 Clembovsky was a permanent member of the Military Legislative Council under the Revolutionary Military Council. In the Soviet-Polish War of 1920, he was a member of the Special Conference of the Commander-in-Chief of All the Armed Forces of the Republic. At the same time, since 1918, chairman, then editor of the Military Historical Commission for the Study and Use of the experience of the 1st World War. In 1920 (according to other sources, in 1921), he was arrested on charges of aiding the Polish troops and died in custody.