"General Yasha"
And now he teaches the intelligence of the red commanders, whom he recently hit with success on the battlefields. He teaches, sarcastically sifting through the bones, all the blunders and miscalculations of authoritative commanders and officers of the army of workers and peasants.
At one of these activities, Semyon Budyonny, who became a legend even during his lifetime, could not bear the biting comments about the actions of his 1 Cavalry Army, and unleashed the revolving drum towards the former white general. And he just spat on his fingers, soiled with chalk, and calmly threw in the direction of the quieter audience: "This is how you shoot, and fight."
The name of this outstanding man was Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchev.
Fight so fight
HE WAS BORN 12 December 1885, in a family of hereditary military. His grandfather fought with the Turks in the Balkans, and a little later in the blazing Warsaw pacified the swaggering gentry. My father rose to the rank of colonel's shoulder straps and retired with honor. In 1903, Jacob graduated from one of the most prestigious secondary schools in the northern capital, the St. Petersburg School of Gurevich, after which he was accepted into the Pavlovsk Military School and was assigned to graduate from the Life Guards Finnish Regiment.
In the Russian-Japanese twenty years old lieutenant did not have time. And, whether from annoyance, or on the advice of seniors, he applied to the Academy of the General Staff. There, the young man who did not belong to the brilliant metropolitan youth was accepted not too gently: Slashchev was clever, but he was quick-tempered, painfully proud, and very often incontinent.
Unable to find loyal friends among fellow students, Jacob did not particularly study, preferring the silence of academic audiences and libraries to the joy of noisy Petersburg life. But it was then that Slashchev, who missed the maps and schemes of classical campaigns and battles, first began to “indulge” in the development of night operations, which were unusual for his time, such a mixture of guerrilla units and volatile sabotage groups.
Having completed his studies in the “second category”, the lieutenant Slashchev was not counted among the General Staff and returned to his native regiment, taking command of the company. Realizing that due to the formation of a career he would not succeed, Yakov Alexandrovich, having applied all the knowledge and skills of the capital city of Lovelace, married the daughter of the regimental commander General Vladimir Kozlov. So it would be quiet and peaceful and went his promotion, if not for World War I broke out.
The general's son-in-law met the news of the beginning of the war at a cafe party at a coffee table. Putting out a cigarette in a glass of champagne and pouring all the contents of a purse on a tray, Slashchev said: “Well, gentlemen, fight, fight like that. Otherwise, I began to forget how this is done, ”and left for my unit, which had already received an order to speak at the front line.
18 August 1914, the Life Guards Finnish Regiment, with all four battalions, moved to the front. Together with the rest of the guard, he was enrolled in the reserve headquarters of the Supreme Commander. Let the word "reserve" is not misleading anyone. Up until July of 1917, when almost all of them were killed in battles under Tarnopol and on the Zbruch River, the Finns were used as a strike force in offensives, and in defense and in case of waste - for plugging holes in particularly dangerous areas.
What is a company commander, and then a battalion commander for a three-year fighting regiment? It is hardly required additional explanations to this line in the service description of Slashchev. We can only say that Yakov Aleksandrovich and his guardsmen participated in bayonet attacks in the Kozhenitsky forests, led the battalion in all the encounters in the Krasnostava battle. In 1916, near Kovel, when the offensive of the Russian infantry was already ready to choke, it was he who launched a suicide attack on the Finnish chain. And, having passed through the swamps, putting two-thirds of the personnel, with bayonets, he won a victory in the division’s breakthrough section, paying for it with his two wounds.
In total, in hospitals Slashchev was five times. Two contusions suffered on his feet, without leaving the location of the battalion. The February Revolution met the colonel and deputy regiment commander, holder of the Order of St. George 4 degree and the owner of St. George weapons.
In the summer of 1917, in Petrograd, the soldiers of the spare companies, who did not want to go to the front, rebelled. In order to prevent a similar incident from occurring in other cities, the Provisional Government recalled several energetic and strong-willed officers from the front and put them at the head of the garrisons and guards regiments remaining in the capitals. Slashchev was among them: on July 14 he took under his command the Moscow Guards Regiment and commanded them until December of the seventeenth year.
And then suddenly disappeared ...
In Dobrarmii
On a COLD DAY in the morning of 1917, a tall officer with a pale face came to the headquarters of the Volunteer Army in Novocherkassk, where all muscles were twitching nervously. Pushing the door where the “Personnel Commission” sign hung, he snapped his heels and, putting documents on the table, threw dryly to those sitting in the room: “Colonel Slashchev. Ready to begin the command of any unit. " He was told to wait.
Having gone outside, Yakov Alexandrovich decided to pass the time in one of the city cafes. And there nose to nose collided with a fellow student at the academy, staff captain Sukharev. He was a guarantor of General Kornilov, one of the leaders of the Dobarmia. After a short exchange of everyday the news the far-older headquarters captain looked carefully at the thirty-two-year-old colonel. “And remember, my dear friend, your academic enthusiasm for partisans? Now it can be very useful ”...
At that time, in the Kuban, Laba and Zelenchuk, horse-drawn detachments of the Cossack colonel Andrey Shkuro walked with might and main. Their elemental semi-partisan actions were required to impart, according to the plans of the command of the Volunteer Army, an organized character in order to jointly clear the south of Russia from the Bolsheviks. A more suitable candidate for this mission than Colonel Slashchev was difficult to select. And, obeying orders, Yakov Alexandrovich went to the Kuban people.
With Shkuro, they quickly found a common language. Andrei Grigoryevich, an excellent cavalry commander, did not organically digest any staff work, preferring to “crawl on the cards” and careful planning of operations, a dashing saber mistake. No wonder that Slashchev took his post as chief of staff.
A few months later, the Cossack "army" Shkuro, seriously battered by the red, numbered about five thousand sabers. With these experienced fighters who had gone through the fire of world war, Andrei Grigorievich without any particular difficulty 12 in July 1918 of the year occupied Stavropol, presenting him on a silver plate that approached the city of the Volunteer Army. For this, Denikin, who became the head of the “volunteers” after the death of Lavr Kornilov, awarded Shkuro and Slashchev the rank of major generals. Soon, Slashchev took command of the infantry division, conducting successful raids on Nikolaev and Odessa with it, which allowed the White Guards to take control of almost the entire Right-Bank Ukraine.
Looking ahead, let's say that in the same year, 1918, Slashchev met the desperate young man of the courage, the St. George Knight Nechvolodov, who became his orderly. It soon became clear that this name hid ... Nina Nechvolodova. Three years of the Civil War Ninochka almost never left Yakov Alexandrovich, several times carried him out to the wounded from the battlefield. In 1920, they became husband and wife.
Ironically, the uncle of the "Juncher Nechvolodov" all these years has been ... the head of the Red Army artillery! In the twentieth, Nina, by virtue of the circumstances, remained in the territory occupied by the red, was arrested by the Chekists and transferred to Moscow, where she appeared before Iron Felix’s menacing eyes. Dzerzhinsky acted towards the white general's wife more than nobly: after several confidential conversations, Nechvolodova-Slashcheva was sent across the front line to her husband. These meetings of the spouse with the head of the Cheka later played a huge role in the fate of Yakov Aleksandrovich ...
In the midst of the Civic, when the scales almost every month leaned in one direction or another, Slashchev with his division, being in his native element, with the same success smashed the red, "green", Makhnovists, Petliurists, as well as all other batkov and atamans against whom Denikin threw him. None of them could find an effective antidote against the sugary tactics of swift raids, night storms and daring raids, which became the hallmark and signature style of a desperate general.
All this time, Yakov Aleksandrovich literally lived on the front line, behaved extremely closed, practically not appearing at the Stavka, communicating only with his officers and soldiers. They literally idolized "General Yashu." And he, who added seven more wounds to the Civil War to the five wounds of the First World War, literally poured himself alcohol on the staff car in the evenings to drown out the unbearable pain in his whole body and longing for dying Russia. When alcohol stopped helping, Slashchev switched to cocaine ...
And the flywheel of the Civil War continued to gain momentum. Yakov Aleksandrovich, who was already at the head of the corps, without a single defeat reached the Podolsk province. It was here that a little-known event occurred even for military historians: almost the entire Galician army of Simon Petlyura surrendered to Slashchev without a fight, officers of which declared that they no longer intend to fight for a separatist Ukraine and agree to fight for the great and indivisible Russia.
But then Denikin’s order came to immediately transfer Slashchev to Tavria, where Nestor Makhno’s uprising took place, under the black banners of which nearly a hundred thousand peasants stood. The rear of the Fairgrounds were under serious threat.
By 16 November 1919, Slashchev concentrated the main forces of his corps under Yekaterinoslav and delivered a sudden strike late at night. The armored trains, with the fire of their cannons, paved the way for the horsemen of the “insane general”. Nestor Ivanovich, surrounded by his closest associates, barely managed to leave the city, whose streets were decorated by the bodies of the hanged Makhnovists for three days. It was cruel, of course, but Jacob Alexandrovich’s subordinates knew perfectly well how the same Makhnovists mocked captive officers ...
After this terrible defeat, the army of Makhno still continued to conduct military operations, but it could never enter its former strength.
Alas, this victory could not change the general course of the war: near Voronezh, the cavalry corps of Shkuro and Mamontov were defeated in red, and Denikin’s army inexorably began to roll back to the south. The last hope of the Volunteer Army remained the Crimea, which took the remnants of the White Guards. It was there that the star of General Slashchev was lit.
Slashchev-Crimean
AS A MILITARY Specialist, Yakov Alexandrovich faced the Crimea not for the first time. In the summer of 1919, when the peninsula was completely Bolshevik, a small detachment of whites firmly clung to a tiny bridgehead near Kerch. Red Army soldiers tried to take their positions in a hurry, but were repulsed and calmed down, thinking that the enemy was in a mousetrap and he had nowhere to go. And he suddenly organized a landing under Koktebel, received reinforcements, hit Theodosia and threw the Reds out of the Crimea. So, Yakov Slashchev was in charge of all this.
In December of the nineteenth, on the way of two armies of the Reds, numbering more than 40 thousands of bayonets and sabers, only 4 thousands of Suzschevsky fighters stood on Perekop. Therefore, the general had to rely only on the use of non-standard tactics, capable of somehow compensating for the tenfold (!) Superiority of the enemy. And Slashchev found such a tactical device, although many considered his plan to defend the Chongar peninsula and the Perekop isthmus absurd. But he insisted and proceeded to "swinging the Crimean swing" ...
Soon after the appointment of the general responsible for the defense of the peninsula, the Reds took Perekop. But the next day they were thrown back to their original positions. Two weeks later, a new assault followed, and with the same result. Twenty days later, the Red Army men were again in the Crimea, some of the Red Kombrigs and the Chief Warriors even managed to receive the Order of the Red Banner for taking Tup-Dzhankoy. Two days later, the Bolsheviks were again defeated!
The fact is that Slashchev refused from positional defense at all. In Crimea there was an unusually fierce winter for those places, there was no housing on the Crimean isthmuses at all. Therefore, Yakov Aleksandrovich has placed parts of his corps in populated areas inside the peninsula. The Reds passed through the isthmuses with impunity, reported on the “capture of the Crimea”, but were forced to spend the night in the steppe open to all winds. The general, meanwhile, raised his rested in warm squadrons, hundreds and battalions, threw them into the attack on the stiffened enemy and threw him out.
Later, in emigration, Slashchev would write: “It was I who delayed the Civil War for a long fourteen months, which caused additional casualties. I repent.
If after a successful landing on Koktebel and the liberation of Feodosia, Yakov Aleksandrovich officially received the right to write his name with the prefix "Krymsky", then for military and administrative activities on the peninsula in 1920, he was marked by the unofficial nickname "Hangman".
From Slashchev, who became, in fact, the military dictator of the Crimea, he got everything — the Bolshevik underground, the anarchists-raiders, and the unprincipled gangsters, the self-panthers, and the whitewashed officers of the White Army. And the sentence for all was one - the gallows. And with bringing it into execution, Yakov Aleksandrovich did not drag out. One day, right by his staff carriage, he even jerked one of the favorites of Baron Wrangel, who was convicted of theft of jewelry, saying, "No one can disgrace the shoulder straps."
But, strange as it may seem, the name of Slashchev in the Crimea was pronounced more with respect than with fear.
“Despite the executions,” General P.I. Averyanov wrote in his memoirs, “Yakov Aleksandrovich was popular among all classes of the population of the peninsula, not excluding workers. And how could it be otherwise, if the general was personally everywhere: he entered without protection into the crowd of protesters, he himself examined complaints from trade unions and industrialists, and he himself raised chains to the attack. Yes, they were afraid of him, but at the same time they also hoped, knowing for sure: Slashchev would not give out and would not sell. He possessed an amazing and for many an incomprehensible ability to instill confidence and devoted love to the troops. ”
The popularity of Slashchev among the soldiers and officers-comfrey was really transcendental. Both of them called him “our Yasha” behind their eyes, which Yakov Aleksandrovich was very proud of. As for the local population, many Crimeans seriously believed that Slashchev really is none other than Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, brother of the murdered emperor and heir to the Russian throne!
When Denikin left the post of commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia, there were two candidates for the vacant seat - Lieutenant General Baron Wrangel and Major General Slashchev. But Yakov Aleksandrovich, all his life full of all kinds of politics, abandoned any struggle for the highest military post, retiring from Sevastopol to Dzhankoy, where his corps headquarters were located. Wrangel, realizing the whole scale of Slashchov's personality and, most importantly, its importance for the continuation of the armed struggle, called Yakov Alexandrovich back, ordered him to command a parade of troops in honor of his appointment as commander-in-chief, and even assigned him the rank of lieutenant-general - equal to his own.
It seemed that all propriety was observed. But the relationship between the two most influential generals in the Crimea deteriorated day by day. Relations with the allies became a stumbling block: England, and later France put a lot of pressure on Wrangel, and all the recent military operations were planned by the baron and were developed by his headquarters taking into account the interests of these countries. Slashchev fought exclusively for Russia ...
When in the summer of 1920, the armies of Tukhachevsky and Budyonny were beaten near Warsaw and rolled back, Yakov Aleksandrovich offered to strike from the Crimea to the north-west against Pilsudsky’s advancing regiments in order to jointly finish off a demoralized enemy. But Wrangell moved the units that had escaped from the peninsula to the operational space, including the Slaschov corps, to the northeast, in the Donbass, where until 1917, most of the mines belonged to the French.
The Poles did not go beyond their borders. And the Reds brought up fresh infantry and cavalry divisions from the central provinces. A famous battle took place near Kakhovka, which ended in a terrible defeat for the whites who had no strategic reserves. Wrangel began to methodically "drive" back to the Crimea.
In the second half of August, 1920, the baron sent Slashchev, who did not stop pointing out to the strategy miscalculations, to resign and offered to leave the peninsula. Yakov Alexandrovich inscribed on a telegram "Crimean will not leave Crimea" and fell into a terrible binge.
On October 30, the Frunze regiments stormed Perekop, who was desperately defended by the whites. Wrangell announced the evacuation. In the general chaos and confusion that reigned in Sevastopol, to the Baron suddenly appeared a clean-shaven, pressed and absolutely sober Slashchev. He proposed to transfer military units loaded onto ships not to Turkey, but to the Odessa region and expressed readiness to lead the landing operation, the plan of which had already been developed by a restless general, always distinguished among his colleagues by healthy adventurism and unconventional thinking.
Wrangell refused. And this day was the last day of the Civil War in the European part of Russia.
Outlaw
After planting his wife with a small daughter on the Almaz cruiser, for several days, Slashchev assembled officers of his native Life Guards of the Finnish regiment in Crimea, inexplicably found a regimental banner somewhere in the wagon train, and in this environment literally left the burning peninsula on the last steamer.
Stepping on the Turkish land, the general dismissed all the Finns. And he settled with his family on the outskirts of Constantinople in a hut, made of planks, plywood and tin. He did not interfere in the political squabbles that had torn the camp of émigrés; he lived by his own labor: he grew vegetables and traded them in the markets, raised turkeys and other animals. In the rare hours of rest read the press. He was remembered, they wrote about him, his military operations were vicious, but both the red and the white responded with respect.
Analyzing what is happening in his homeland, Slashchev once spoke with the directness inherent to him: “The Bolsheviks are my mortal enemies, but they did what I dreamed of — they revived the country. But what if they call her, I don't give a damn! ”
Around the same time, Wrangel proclaimed a new agreement with the Entente and the preparation of an invasion of Soviet Russia. This was more than realistic, since at that time only under Constantinople there were more than one hundred thousand people evacuated from the Crimea. The military units disarmed but completely preserving the organizational structure settled in the camps, maintaining strict discipline. In the soldiers and officers constantly instilled confidence that the struggle is not over and they still play a role in the overthrow of the Bolsheviks.
Slashchev, departing from his principles, publicly declared the baron a traitor of national interests and demanded a public trial of him. Wrangel immediately issued an order to convene a court of honor of generals. By his decision, Yakov Aleksandrovich was dismissed from service without the right to wear his uniform, was expelled from the army lists. This deprived Slashchev of any financial allowance and doomed him to a beggarly existence. Above all, he was deprived of all the awards, including those received in the fields of the First World War. The confrontation between former colleagues reached its peak. And it did not go unnoticed by the Soviet secret services.
It must be said that by 1921, the Foreign Department of the Cheka and the Red Army Intelligence Directorate already had foreign residencies active in emigration. Chekists and military intelligence officers also worked in Constantinople. All-Ukrainian Cheka, as well as the subordinate M. V. Frunze intelligence of the troops of Ukraine and the Crimea, had great operational capabilities in Turkey.
In general, one of the dark nights of Constantinople knocked on the door to Slashchev ...
Yakov Aleksandrovich, with all the understanding that the White movement was doomed and had a personal dislike for many of its leaders, was seriously hesitant in its decision to return to Soviet Russia. Emigrant newspapers were full of reports of mass executions in Crimea of former officers, policemen and priests. The Echoes of the Civil War were the Kronstadt mutiny, continued fierce clashes with the Makhnovists, peasant uprisings in the Tambov region and in Siberia. All this, Slashchev knew and clearly realized that in such an environment his life would not be worth a penny. But even outside of Russia, even if it was Bolshevik, he no longer saw himself.
The final decision to return home matured in his early summer 1921. An agent who was in touch with the general reported on this to Moscow. On October 7, after much deliberation, the chairman of the Cheka introduced to the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) the question of organizing the return of Slashchev and his further use in the interests of Soviet power.
Opinions are divided. Zinoviev, Bukharin and Rykov were against, Kamenev, Stalin and Voroshilov voted "for". Lenin abstained. Everything was determined by the voice of Dzerzhinsky, who insisted on his proposal. Thus, the issue was resolved at the highest level. To think over the details and directly direct the operation was entrusted to the deputy chairman of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission of the Unshlikht.
Slashchev, meanwhile, together with his wife and several officers loyal to him, officers rented a cottage on the shore of the Bosphorus and organized a partnership for the processing of fruit orchards. Soviet intelligence agents dismissed a rumor about Constantinople about the intention of the general to go to Russia, ostensibly to unite the rebel movement and lead them in the struggle against the Bolsheviks. This information, as it was intended, reached Wrangel, French and English counterintelligence, putting their vigilance to sleep.
Yakov Aleksandroich and his like-minded people managed to leave their dwelling unnoticed, to get into the port, and then on board the steamer “Jean”. They were seized only a day later, when the ship was already halfway to Sevastopol. The detachment of the Turkish police, headed by the head of the Vranglevka counterintelligence, went over the abandoned house, but, naturally, found no one and nothing. And the next day, a pre-prepared statement by Slashchev was published in the newspapers of Constantinople: “At the moment I am on my way to the Crimea. Assumptions and assumptions that I'm going to conspire or organize rebels are meaningless. The revolution in Russia is over. The only way to fight for our ideas is evolution. They will ask me: how did I, the defender of the Crimea, come over to the side of the Bolsheviks? I answer: I defended not the Crimea, but the honor of Russia. Now my name is also to defend the honor of Russia. And I will defend her, believing that all Russians, especially the military, should be presently in their homeland. " This was a personal statement by Slashchev, not corrected by any of the Bolshevik leaders!
Together with Yakov Alexandrovich, the former Assistant Secretary of War Minister of the Crimean Government, Major General Milkovsky, the last commander of Simferopol, Colonel Gilbikh, Chief of Staff of the Slavshevsky Corps, Colonel Mezernitsky, Head of his personal escort, Captain Voynakhovsky returned to Russia. And, of course, the wife of General Nina Nechvolodova with a young daughter.
“What have you done with us, Motherland ?!”
Emigration was shocked: the most bloody and most implacable opponent of the Council of Deputies returned to the camp of the enemy! Panic also began among the Bolshevik middle management: in Sevastopol, Slashcheva was personally met by the chairman of the All-Russian Cheka Administration Felix Dzerzhinsky, and in his car the “hangman-general” arrived in Moscow.
The way of Yakov Aleksandrovich was foreshadowed at the same October meeting of the party leadership: no commanding posts, writing memoirs with a detailed analysis of the actions of both warring parties, an appeal to the former colleagues of the White Army. And - as the peak of the manifestation of the loyalty of new owners - the provision of a teaching position with full support, relying on the highest command of the Red Army.
And Slashchev began to serve Russia as ardently and selflessly as he did before. At the beginning of 1922, he wrote with his own hand an appeal to Russian officers and generals abroad, urging them to follow his example, since their military knowledge and combat experience is needed by their homeland.
The authority of Yakov Aleksandrovich among the officers-comfrey was so great that almost immediately after the publication of this appeal to Russia generals Klochkov and Zelenin, colonels Zhitkevich, Orzhanevsky, Klimovich, Lyalin and about a dozen others arrived. All of them received teaching positions in the Red Army, freely gave lectures and issued many works on stories Civil war Overall, by the end of 1922, thousands of former officers had returned to their homeland 223. Emigration was split, for which the leaders of the Russian All-Union Union sentenced Yakov Aleksandrovich in absentia to death.
Becoming a teacher in the courses "Shot", located in Lefortovo, Slashchev teaches students how to fight landings, how to maneuver operations. His articles are regularly published in the magazine “Military Affairs”, the names of which speak for themselves: “Vanguard actions in a meeting battle”, “Breakthrough and coverage of a fortified area”, “Significance of fortified stripes in modern war and overcoming them”.
His students in those years were the future Marshals of the Soviet Union Budyonny, Vasilevsky, Tolbukhin, Malinovsky. General Batov, the hero of the Great Patriotic War, recalled Slashchev: “He taught brilliantly, at lectures he was always full of people, and tensions in the audience sometimes, like in battle. Many listeners themselves have recently fought Wrangel men, including on the approaches to the Crimea, and the former White Guard general, not sparing slander, dealt with the shortcomings of his and our actions. Gritted his teeth with anger, but learned! "
Between yesterday’s mortal enemies, armchair battles were now raging, disputes about tactical techniques often moved from the classrooms to the dormitory rooms of the commanding staff and delayed well after midnight, turning into a friendly tea party. Of course, having entered the rage, they also consumed stronger drinks ...
Contributed to the enlightenment of the kraskom and spouse of Yakov Aleksandrovich Nina Nechvolodova. She organized an amateur theater at the “Shot” courses, where she staged several classic plays with the participation of the wives and children of the listeners. In 1925, the film company Proletarian Cinema produced a feature film about Baron Wrangel and the capture of the Crimea. In this picture, in the role of General Slashchev, he was shot ... Slashchev himself, and in the role of "Junker N." - his wife!
Of course, the position of Slashchev was far from ideal. He periodically filed a report requesting transfer to a command post in the troops, which he, naturally, was denied. His lectures have increasingly begun to be booed by “politically conscious” listeners. Strange and unpleasant personalities began to spin around Jacob Alexandrovich. And "Professor Yasha" seriously aspired to Europe, intending to spend the rest of the day as a private person ...
11 January 1929, he did not appear at lectures. Before lunch, no one attached much importance to this fact: they decided that Yakov Aleksandrovich “made a nice ache” after the next gatherings. Although, on the other hand, he was always a disciplined man, and even in a state of strong drunkard, he did not forget to warn the authorities about some temporary delays in his work.
The winter day rolled towards sunset, and Slashchev never let himself be known. A group of fellow teachers who arrived at his hostel found the former general dead. As determined immediately by the examination, he was shot by several shots from a pistol made in the back of the head and in the back almost at close range.
Soon the killer was caught. It turned out to be one Kolenberg, a former White Guard, who declared that he had revenged Slaschev for hanging his brother in Crimea. The investigation considered this to be an acquittal reason, and a week later the killer was released.
Three days after the murder, the body of the general was cremated on the territory of the Donskoy Monastery in the presence of relatives and close friends. The official funeral was not held, where the ashes rest, remains unknown. Yakov Aleksandrovich just sunk into oblivion!
The true causes of the mysterious murder of Slaschov never received a clear explanation from the historians. Perhaps the most accurate of them was the former officer of the Finnish Life Guards regiment I. N. Sergeev: “The alarming situation in Russia at the end of the 20s forced its rulers to end with the most active internal opponents and those who could lead the anti-Bolshevik resistance in the future ". And Yakov Aleksandrovich could easily be among them ...
Whatever it was, while Lieutenant-General of the White Army and the “red professor”, a brilliant tactician and strategist Jacob Slashchev went down in history as a patriot of Russia, who had fought for her greatness and glory all his life, and became one of the symbols of his time - bright, cruel, mistaken, but not broken.
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