Bogolyubov Andrey Andreevich
(27.11.1841–27.01.1909)
Russian general.
Education and primary education received in the Alexander Cadet
Corps and the 2nd Military Konstantinovsky School.
Upon graduation in 1860, he began serving as an officer in a
rifle battalion, and in 1863, as part of the Lithuanian Life Guards,
took part in suppressing the Polish uprising.
In 1864, Bogolyubov entered the Academy of the General Staff,
where he graduated with a small silver medal.
In subsequent years, he served in the Warsaw Military District,
in the military accounting committee, where he compiled the military
statistics collection, took part in hostilities during the
Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, for which he was awarded the
Golden Weapon and the Order of
St. Anne 2 degrees with swords .
Since the beginning of the peace talks, Bogolyubov served under
Adjutant General Ignatiev, then was sent to London at the disposal
of Count Shuvalov, took part in the Berlin Congress as part of a
commission to determine the boundaries of the Bulgarian
principality.
The role of Bogolyubov in the work of the commissions on the
rearmament of the Russian army and the arming of fortresses is great
He was one of the largest authorities in these matters and the
closest advisor to the Chief of the General Staff and Minister of
War.
In 1898, Bogolyubov continued his military service, replacing
Adjutant General Kuropatkin as head of the Transcaspian Region,
where he did a lot for the development of Russian settlements.
Later he was a corps commander and assistant commander of the
Warsaw Military District.
In March 1908, he received the rank of general from infantry, and
in May he was dismissed due to illness, which brought him, full of
energy, experience, knowledge, to the grave.
Bogolyubov had a remarkable mind and was endowed with great
artistic talent.
He founded the Penza School of Painting, where he donated his
rich collection of paintings.
Bogolyubov bequeathed another famous collection of carpets to the
museum of Emperor Alexander III.
He died in Petersburg, buried in one of the cemeteries of the
Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
Cape and the
mountain in the Bay Bear on the
Kara coast of the northern island of New Earth.
Cape opened in 1835 by
A.K.
Tsivolka
and mapped without a name.
Described and named in 1901
A.A.
Borisov,
whom Bogolyubov helped to enroll in the drawing school.
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