Allegiance Russian Empire Rank Rear admiral | Name Mikhail Bakhirev Years of service 1888-1917 | |
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Born July 17, 1868
Novocherkassk ( 1868-07-17 ) Commands held Battleship squadron of the Baltic Fleet Battles/wars Russo-Japanese War
World War I Awards Order of St. George
Order of Saint Stanislaus (Imperial House of Romanov)
Order of St. Anna
Order of St. Vladimir
Legion d'honneur (France)
Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan) Died January 16, 1920, Saint Petersburg, Russia Battles and wars Russo-Japanese War, World War I Similar People Vitaly Bianki, V Volodarsky, Grand Duke Dmitry Ko, Timur Kacharava, Moisei Uritsky | ||
Service/branch Imperial Russian Navy | ||
Mikhail Koronatovitsch Bakhirev (Russian: Михаил Коронатович Бахирев) (17 July 1868 in Novocherkassk – 16 January 1920 in Petrograd) was a Russian Naval officer and Admiral.
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Bakhirev was born into a Don Cossack family near Novocherkassk. His father was a sotnik in the cossacks of the Imperial Russian Army.
He joined in 1888 as a cadet in the Navy and was on the gunboat Bobr the Far Eastern Fleet. In January 1898 he was transferred to the Baltic Fleet, but only a year later, he returned to the Far East. During the Boxer Rebellion he commanded the gunboat Gilyaks.
During the Russo-Japanese War In 1904/05 he commanded Port Arthur torpedo boat Silny. Bakhirev participated in the defense of Port Arthur. Despite many casualties in the most difficult situations, he managed to impose calm and discipline.
Between 1911 and 1914 he was commander of the armoured cruiser Rurik.
World War I
On December 24, 1914 Mikhail Koronatovitch Bahirev was promoted to Rear Admiral and commanded the Baltic Fleet's cruiser squadron. Between December 19, 1915 to May 23, 1917 he exercised command of the battleship squadron of the Baltic Fleet.
Two years later he was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral and the following year (August 21, 1917) he became chief of the naval forces in the Gulf of Riga (see Operation Albion and Battle of Moon Sound).
On January 12, 1918 Bakhirev was dismissed from service and denied the right to collect a pension.
Russian Revolution
After his dismissal from the Navy, Bakhirev exercised the profession of chief accountant in an industrial society. At the beginning of August 1918 he was arrested by Bolsheviks, but released again on March 13, 1919. The April 1, 1919, he started writing about the fighting in the Gulf of Riga between 1915 and 1917.
Death
After the defeat of General Nikolai Yudenich against the Red Army, a new wave of arrests took place in Petrograd. Bakhirev refused to flee to Finland. On November 17, 1919 he was accused of complicity with Yudenich, and he was again imprisoned. At January 16, 1920 he was shot as a hostage.