Kotov Vityaz Biography

Unlike a movie hero, the sentence of the highest degree of punishment against him became final and did not appeal to his appeal-Kotova was shot ... Nikita Mikhalkov replied then that his hero is a person from beginning to end, but a coincidence, indeed, amazing ... than the screen image is similar to a real prototype, first of all, the name of Nikita Mikhalkov in the interview " He called Kotov a brigade commander, although he wears the signs of the commander’s distinction on the tunic.

At the same time, it is interesting to note that among the commanders of the Red Army repressed in the 10th years, as the son, daughter and grandson of the executed Nikolai Kotov were later established, there was only one commander with such a surname.

The wives of the divisions - fictional and present - are named Maria. Both red commanders have a daughter. Both fought on the fronts of the Civil War, participated under the command of the future marshal of the Soviet Union Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the suppression of the peasant, "Antonovsky", the uprising against "military communism" in the Tambov region. The screen of the director with the will of the director escaped the execution, and participated in the Great Patriotic War as a penaltyman.

The son of the deceased Nikolai Kotov, Vladimir, arrested with his mother and sister, as a member of the family of the "enemy of the people", in the year from the camps he got to the front in the penal company ... The evil genius of the "Baded by the Sun" of Kotovo - Mita was given the position of the pupil of the father of Marusi, the wife of the commander.

George, his brother Nikolai Kotov, had a foster son taken from the orphanage. At one time, he publicly renounced the adoptive parents in connection with the fact that they turned out to be relatives of the “enemy of the people” ... And yet the actually existing commander Nikolai Kotov is distinguished from the collective image created by Mikhalkov and film -bloodstream Rustam Ibrahimbekov, the main thing is his attitude to Stalin.

And the apparent similarity of the two fates suddenly disappears ... The parallels that have not crossed the episode from the Oscar-winning film: cats jumping up on an unlocked horse and jumping to save the collapse of the niva, which the caterpillars of tanks that have gone to maneuvers are about to sleep. And somehow miraculously you begin to realize that the red general does not move the collective farmers, as to the deputy, with a request to save the crop.

You guess that he himself is from the peasants, a reverent attitude to the bread field at his genetic level! In the civil war, he probably was a dashing shirt, knocked out in a large red commander, got into Stalin’s eyes, and his leader moved his service. Kotov married a girl from an intelligent environment, rotates in the professor’s environment, so he has order on this “front”.

He is safe, and when he was arrested, he sincerely does not understand what was happening. He worships the leader, and he naively considers him a favorite. In a word, Kotov fell under the "tank" of repression, not knowing guilt. She was knocked out of it in the NKVD ... When you turn to the biography of the commander Nikolai Kotov, it becomes completely obvious that the commander from real life has nothing to do with the main character of the film, the dramaturgy of his life and death was written by another pen ...

Kotov’s student becomes a cadet ... Nikolai Yakovlevich Kotov was born in the family of nobles in Pavlograd now in the district center in Pavlograd. Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. In addition to him, there were three more sons in the family - Mikhail, Leo and Gregory and the daughter of Elizabeth. At the end of the gymnasium, Nikolai Kotov studied at the Novorossiysk University of Odessa, but after the second year he entered the Odessa Infantry Junker School, which he graduated on the eve of the First World War.

At the front, a young butt officer quickly grew up to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Socialist -Revolutionary Kotov joins the CPSU B ... The revolution of the year did not leave the Russian filed a large choice - you are either for the Reds or for the White. All other "colors" became shades of these two. Kotov made his final choice in the year, entering the Red Army.

In the year, he, before this, a member of the Party of Social Revolutionaries, joined the CPSU b. He fought cats on the Southern Front, participated in the defeat of the White in the Crimea. The military career of Nikolai Yakovlevich indicates that his professional military education and rich combat experience was used in a wide variety of positions. He was the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Pavlograd district, the provincial military commissar in Kharkov, the head of the military garrison of Odessa, the head of the defense of the Black Sea and the Dnieper coast, commanded a rifle regiment, a brigade and division.

And after the end of the adjuncture of the Military Academy named after M. Frunze, he was an assistant chief of the Academy, chief of staff of this military university. But what military expediency can the appointment of the infantry commander be explained to the position of head of the Lipetsk Higher Flight Tactical School of the Air Force? Kotov falls under suspicion ... There is no clear answer to this question.

Of course, as a graduate of the Military Academy, Nikolai Yakovlevich Kotov thoroughly understood the theory of combat use of aviation. But in the Red Army at that time there were many professional aviators capable of preparing aircraft personnel.In addition, the position of head of the school, albeit the highest, can hardly be called prestigious for a graduate of three military educational institutions with solid experience in managing large formations of the Ground Forces in the context of warfare and the experience of headquarters at the highest level.

Is this appointment to the beginning of the opal of the commander N. Kotov, who ended in arrest and execution? Kotov is called to Moscow for appointment to a new position, and they are arrested on the road ... In August, nothing suspecting Kotov was called to Moscow, hinting at the same time that, they say, the issue of appointing him to a higher position in the Leningrad Military District will be considered.

On the way, he was arrested ... Thanks to the efforts of several generations of relatives Nikolai Yakovlevich, primarily the son of Vladimir and the grandson of Nicholas, who for many years collected documentary information about him, today many details of the investigation in the Kotov case are already known. He was accused of "espionage in favor of Germany, participation in a military-fascist conspiracy to overthrow the socialist system and restoration of capitalism in the USSR, subversive and sabotage activities in the Red Army ...".

Answering the investigator’s questions about the state of affairs in the school headed by him, Kotov emphasizes: in order to raise one aircraft into the air, you have to disassemble several cars to spare parts. The weak materiel, high accident and unwillingness to fly in difficult weather conditions, the lack of a single approach to the use of aviation in a future war, a 15th of the combat enormity of air parts, this commander already speaks of the general state of aviation.

He seems to have grounds for such conclusions. A year ago, large aviation exercises on the air defense of Leningrad were held, in which Kotov participated as an intermediary. Clement Clement Voroshilov came to watch them to observe them. According to the commander during interrogation, the exercises were torn off, since many planes simply could not climb into the air, and those that took off, as a result of poor management of their tasks, did not fulfill their tasks.

Kotov summarizes his testimony: "Aviation is not ready for a future war ...". And he adds: "For five years, only one conversation went ...". Kotov recall friendship with Tukhachevsky ... However, "trump cards" - denunciations of Nikolai Yakovlevich were hidden at the investigation in the sleeve. He was attributed to the words that the People's Commissar of Defense of Voroshilov was the shadow of Stalin, whose policy disarms Russia, and the fact that Stalin must get out of power.

Such statements, indeed, could belong to the commander Kotov, who was on friendly relations with Marshal of the Soviet Union Mikhail Tukhachevsky - a prominent commander and military theorist. It was Tukhachevsky who put forward the concept of the military construction of the Red Army, in which priority was given to the development of tank and mechanized troops and cats warmly supported these ideas.

Tukhachevsky’s opponents in the military doctrine were “cavalry marshals” Voroshilov and Budyonny, close to Stalin. In the end, the Kremlin Party won - Tukhachevsky was accused of creating the Trotskyist Military Organization and shot in the year. That is, a year earlier than Kotov. But where does Kotov’s espionage in favor of German intelligence? Kotov in Germany transmits a letter to Aideman to the German Colonel Liszt long before the Great Patriotic War, during the period of a very stormy Soviet-German military cooperation, cats within the delegation of the Military Academy named after Frunze visited Germany.

Fulfilling the request of the head of the Academy Robert Aideman, Nikolai Yakovlevich handed his letter to the German Colonel Liszt. We will never know its contents, but the NKVD had no doubt in the least that Aideman later the shot transferred spy information. And, of course, Kotov’s position was complicated by his noble origin, and the fact that his two brothers, Mikhail and Leo, fought against the Soviet regime in the army of Denikin, and after the civil war ended up in Paris.

Kotov’s family is sent to the forced labor camps ... The summer commander Kotov was shot on January 10 of the year. The trial of him passed only one day. Following the head of the family, the wife of Kotov Maria, son Vladimir and daughter Irina were arrested. Members of the Family of the "enemy of the people" were sentenced to long terms. The wife and daughter of the executed commander Kotov were released in the year and returned to Lipetsk.

Kotov’s son, in the break between the two “pursuing” fought heroically ... The son of the commander Vladimir Kotov was released from the camp in the year and sent to the penalty battalion. After he was wounded, a criminal record was removed from him, and he continued to fight in the ranks of the Soviet Army. He was wounded again. His courage is evidenced by awards - the Order of the Red Star and the Great Patriotic War, the medals "For Military Merit" and "For the Liberation of Prague".

However, shortly after the victory, he was again arrested, among other prisoners he participated in the construction of the Railway Abakan -Taishet. He was released and joined the family only after Stalin’s death in the year. Vladimir Nikolaevich died in Lipetsk in the year. He managed to watch the film "Burnt by the Sun." Sokolsky G.