Dmitri Parsky

Dmitri Pavlovich Parsky (Дмитрий Павлович Парский) (17 (26) October, 1866 - 20 December, 1921) was a Russian general who commanded the 3rd Army from 9 September 1917 to 8 November 1917.

In 1893 he attended the General Staff Academy. He was the first battle-experienced Tsarist General to offer his services to the Red Army^[1], explaining his viewpoint thus

"I am far from this Bolshevism you preach. But I am ready to work honourably not only with them, but with anyone, even the Devil and his disciples, if only to save Russia from German slavery."^[2]

He died of typhus in 1921.

Honours and awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

• Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd class (1896);
• Order of St. Anne 3rd class (1900);
• Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class (1903);
• Order of St. Anne, 2nd class with swords (1906);
• Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class with swords and bow (1906);
• Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class (1909, 31 January 1910);
• Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st class (6 December 1913)
• Order of St. George, 4th class (2 June 1915)
• Gold Sword for Bravery (1916)

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