… Let's remember as grandfathers in the twelfth memorable year fought

Kobrin → Outstanding persons → Alexey Mikhaylovich Martynov

Three weeks later after invasion of Napoleonic hordes into Russia military operations were started in the southwest of Belarus. Here parts Z-y of the Russian army under command of the general A. P. Tormasov operated. They were resisted by the 7th case of "great army" headed by the general Ge. Rainier and the Austrian case of the general K. Schwarzenberg.

On July 15 (27 on new style) in Kobrin there was a fight with the group of the general Klengel occupying the city which ended with full defeat of the opponent who lost up to one thousand killed. In captivity there were 2 generals, 76 officers and 2382 soldiers. Winners got 8 guns and the 4th banner (from them 2 are at M. I. Kutuzov's grave in Leningrad). In honor of this first considerable victory from walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress the first in that war victorious salute was given.

The second, larger pas to scales battle occurred on July 31 (on August 12) at the villages of Gorodechno - Poddubnoye of the Kobrin County (nowadays Pruzhansky district). Here 18 thousand Russians battled against 40 thousand integrated cases Rainier and Schwarzenberg. Bloody battle ended without visible results. The Russian troops detained the positions till the evening then for fear to be cut off from the bases on Volhynia Tormasov decided to depart to Kobrin.

More than a decade ago on the northwest suburb of Kobrin, in the natural boundary Shevnya, rose the artificial hill called in the people "battery". Here in the earth found fragments of the weapon, a kernel, a bullet, a button. In time a srytiya of "battery" the numerous mixed gun kernels which came to funds of the museum of Suvorov were found. Apparently, this battery visited fighting fire in 1812. And the remained witness of military operations only still in Patriotic war is near the village the Stone of Kobrin district. It is a large boulder gravestone with the semi-erased inscription which not without effort pupils of local school managed to decipher. Here the Cossack colonel Vasyl Nechiporenko is buried in 1812.

100-year anniversary of Patriotic war of 1812 which is solemnly celebrated in Russia gave a reason for a construction of a set of monuments on places of battles. The decision to immortalize the Kobrin victory and Gorodechensky battle was made. For fund raising on a Kobrin monument the subscription among staff of military units which ancestors took part in fight was carried out.

Laying of a monument which author was an architect D. Markov took place in anniversary of fight whereas opening happened in the fall of the same year in very solemn situation, in the presence of znamyonny platoons of the regiments participating in its construction.

Built in the central part of Kobrin, the monument consists of a granite pedestal in the form of the rock topped with a big bronze eagle with widely open wings. A beak and claws the eagle broke off the laurel wreath with a Latin letter N in the middle symbolizing the beginning of the end of victorious progress of the self-confident Corsican. On a front marble board it is cut: To "The Russian soldiers who won the first victory over Napoleon's troops within Russia on July 15, 1812". One of two lateral boards is devoted to the list of participating regiments of fight whereas on the second the list of the military units constructing a monument is given. On a pedestal four heavy mortars of that time with pyramids of five-pood bombs are established in a row.

However in original state the monument was fated to stay only before World War I. Taken in August 1915 Mr. Kobrin vilgelmovsky soldatnya profaned a monument of military glory: the eagle was sent for melting, both lateral memorial boards are broken, only the front marble slab by miracle escaped. In 1951 the monument was restored with little changes. So, as envisioned by the sculptor M. Kerzin who created new option of an eagle with the intact laurel wreath without Napoleon's monogram, this wreath crowns glory of the Russian weapon in this fight.

In the same 1912 near the village of Poddubnoye, in the natural boundary the High Mountain, was put a memorial chapel. Inside on its walls marble slabs with the list of the military units which were taking part in battle and a long line of names of the dead buried in a mass grave settled down. However World War I which began in 1914 interfered with official opening of a monument. And in days of the Great Patriotic War the chapel in general was destroyed, only the six-sided socle with a memorial board escaped.

The 150 anniversary of 1812 was celebrated at us by a number of new memorable signs. At Pruzhana Highway - High, at turn to the village of Poddubnoye, the seven-meter concrete Stella reminding of the bloody battle which took place here was established. Similar Stella is built in the center of the village of Strigovo of Kobrin district where on march to Kobrin the Russian parts conducted rearguard actions.

In Kobrin in addition remind two memorial boards of events of 1812. One is strengthened on the building of the cathedral built on a mass grave of the Russian soldiers heroes who fell in Kobrin fight. The second - on the house of the former Spassky monastery near which the capitulating fighters of the general Klengel composed the weapon to legs of winners.

"Nice this year passed, but there will not pass sodeyanny feats in it" - is written on a commemorative medal of participants of Patriotic war of 1812.

A. Martynov

Martynov, And. "… We will remember as grandfathers in the twelfth memorable year fought": manuscripts do not burn / Alexey Martynov//Kobrynsk_ vesn_k. – 3 zhn і ў nya.



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