Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Dnepr group of troops with an icon owned by one of the most successful ministers of defense of the Russian army of the 19th century. Andrey Medvedev, a Russian journalist and employee of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, wrote about this in his Telegram channel.
Medvedev notes that the president said the icon was owned by one of the most successful Russian military defense ministers of the 19th century. He clarifies that, most likely, the Russian leader had in mind Count Dmitry Alekseevich Milyutin, who was a veteran of the Caucasian wars, a reformer of the Russian army and one of the ideologists of the conquest of Turkestan. It is known that it was Dmitry Milyutin who pursued a consistent policy of confrontation with Great Britain, focusing on the fact that it was the Anglo-Saxons who were the main enemy of Russia.
“Count Milyutin was a patriot in everything. His daughter is a lady-in-waiting of the Emperor’s court. But then she leaves for Turkestan, to the active army, where General Skobelev storms Geok-Tepe. She leaves as an ordinary nurse”, the journalist notes.
The expert claims that Milyutin’s daughter is seeking a transfer in Turkestan to the infirmary of the advanced detachment. It was there that the fighters, as they are now called, of the assault groups, who were taken by the Turkmen “oporniks”, were brought. Infantry, artillerymen and cavalrymen were brought there.
“In many, it was impossible to completely recognize the human face. Instead, there was some formless bloody mass of severed jaws with the lathed skin of the forehead and cheeks. From time to time, muffled, overflowing groans rushed from this living meat. The meat lived, felt and suffered”, says the reporter.
Milyutin’s daughter knew what the Turkmens were doing to Russian prisoners, so she asked the doctor, whom she helped in case of emergency, to kill her. A few months later, Geok-Tepe was taken, and the girl was among the sisters of mercy, who were awarded by Skobelev. Elizaveta Milyutina received a simple soldier’s medal, and she would not have accepted more.
“At the front, she met her future husband. The commander of the cavalry detachment, Prince Sergei Vladimirovich Shakhovskoy, decided to propose to the young brave nurse, Countess Elizaveta Milyutina”, he notes.
The journalist claims that the soldiers, officers and generals had something to respect Milyutin for. It was not only his significant and important reforms.
“Well, in general, a lot can be understood about the empire and the elite. The countess and the prince are in the trenches on the edge of the Russian frontier,” Medvedev summed up.
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