People of Russia

Maksimovskiy Michael S. (1830 – 01/18/1917) – General of Infantry, a former professor at the Imperial Military Academy and a member of the military council, a military writer, graduated from the university enrolled volnoopred. in Kexholm Grenadier Regiment (now the Life Guards), which in 1852 produced a non-commissioned officers. Then moved to Moscow drags. Regiment, which participated in the East War 1854 – 1855 years. At the end of 1857, the military academy he was appointed first associate professor and from 1861 Ordin. Professor of the Academy of Military Administration. For the first time Moscow had been raised about the need for a universally valid in Russia conscription, and from 1870 to 1873 was a clerk for the committee drafting the statute on military service. In 1878 M. was the director of the Gatchina Orphan Institute, and from 1879 to 1885 – the trustee of the Kharkov school district. Then, after a 5-year command of the division, MM consisted of the War Department and in 1906 was appointed a member of the military council, in 1907, resigned. From 1859 to 1878 M. was an active member of "Journal of Engineers, which among other things an article on the location and the device large central fortresses" (1865, № 7). Of the various military and literary works of MM-known: "A historical sketch of the military government in Russia in the first 25 years of the reign of Emperor Alexander Nikolayevich (1855 – 1880). T. I – VI, in cooperation with Horoshhinym, Schilder, Bogdanovich and Postelnikovym (St. Petersburg, 1879-1881) and "Historical Sketch of the main Engineering College (1819 – 1869)" (St. Petersburg, 1869). In "Military. Sat." M. V. housed and living. Essays by pseudo. "Lean." Prior to 1916 continued to remain a member of the Military Council of the Minister of War. Died Jan. 18, 1917, buried at the Orthodox cemetery Volkov. Obituary: New time. 1917. 20 and 23 January.