Shchastny A.M. (1881 - 1918), naval officer

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SHCHASTNY Alexey Mikhailovich (1881 - 1918), naval officer, Captain (1917). Graduated from the Naval School (1901) and Mine Officer Classes (1905). Served in the Baltic Fleet, took part in WW I. After October 1917 was appointed Chief of Staff of the Baltic Fleet (from 17 December 1917), Chief of the Baltic Naval Forces (Commander of the Baltic Fleet, from 20 March 1918). In February-May 1918 supervised withdrawal of ships of the Baltic Fleet from Reval and Helsingfors to Kronstadt (“Ice Passage”, resulting in rescue of 236 ships and vessels). On 27 May 1918 was arrested at a session of the Collegium of the People’s Committee in Moscow, charged with treason, on 22 June 1918 executed (by shooting) on the verdict of the Revolutionary Tribunal of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee in the court of the Alexandrovsky Military Academy, buried in the same place (the widow’s petition for returning the body was declined by chairman of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee Y.M. Sverdlov).

References: "Такова, видно, моя судьба, я не ропщу": За что расстрелян комфлота А. М. Щастный // Источник. 1997. № 6. С. 66-71; Шошков Е. Н. Наморси А. М. Щастный: Трагич. биография в событиях, датах и коммент. СПб., 2001.

I. A. Flige. Shchastny Alexey Mikhailovich
Sverdlov Yakov Mikhailovich
"Такова, видно, моя судьба, я не ропщу": За что расстрелян комфлота А. М. Щастный // Источник, 1997
Шошков Е.Н., Наморси А.М. Щастный: Трагич. биография в событиях, датах и комментариях. СПб., 2001 Baltic Fleet