Verevkin Vladimir

At the end of the course in the Page E. I. V. Corps, 22 July 1840, Mr.. released was an ensign in the Guards Regiment Izmailovskiy, where in 1853, at the beginning of the Eastern war, at their own request was transferred to the Podilian Chasseurs Regiment. Participated in the siege Silistria, and after the Allied landings in the Crimea enrolled in the Sevastopol garrison. In April 1855, Mr.. Verevkin Yekaterinburg was appointed commander of the infantry regiment, who was in the 2 nd branch of the defensive line. When the assault on August 27, . when the enemy, . superior forces, . captured redoubt Schwartz, . Verevkin, . own accord, . rushed to the two companies to meet the enemy, . stopped their movement and, . came to the rescue of reserves, . ousted from the redoubt, . capturing a significant number of prisoners, while he was hit by two rifle bullets, . and before, . June 27, . was severely wounded,
. Later Verevkin was successively governor of Vitebsk, the Commander of 18 Infantry Division, head of the local troops of the military district of Vilna. In the Turkish war of 1877 - 78 years Verevkin commanded the 36 th Infantry Division, which crossed the border of Romania and took the lower reaches of the Danube, with the appointment of Chief of Lower Danube Detachment. Under his supervision was carried device minefields in the Sulina arm. In 1878, Mr.. Verevkin was appointed commander of the first 1-second, and then the 14 th Army Corps, with whom and entered into the occupation troops in Bulgaria. In 1885, Mr.. Verevkin appointed a member of Alexander's Committee on the wounded, and in 1887 - commander of the St. Petersburg fortress. (Note: he died in 1896)