General Vladimir Poltavtsev's Unpublished Memoirs about the Participation of Armenians in the Caucasian Campaign of World War I
Sahakyan, Ruben · 2025
Sahakyan introduces and publishes the previously unknown memoir of Vladimir Poltavtsev (1875–1937), a Russian General Staff officer who served on the Caucasus front and later emigrated. Poltavtsev served as Chief of Staff of the Atropatene detachment and the Caucasian 2nd Rifle Brigade, was promoted to major general in 1917, and died in Belgrade. His manuscripts survive in the Bakhmeteff Archive at Columbia University and in the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The memoir bears on the Armenian volunteer movement, particularly the 1st Druzhina, and on Armenian participation in the Caucasian campaign, supplementing the existing corpus of studies and document collections. Sahakyan supplies the biographical framing and archival provenance.
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Sahakyan, Ruben 2025. General Vladimir Poltavtsev's Unpublished Memoirs about the Participation of Armenians in the Caucasian Campaign of World War I. Fundamental Armenology, Issue 1(21) 2025, History (National Academy of Sciences of RA / All Armenian Foundation Financing Armenological Studies); ISSN 1829-4618.
What this offers a reader
A brand-new primary source on the Armenian volunteer units of the First World War.
Source publication with scholarly apparatus; brings an unknown archival memoir into circulation.
A Russian general's eyewitness account of our volunteers, unpublished until now.
A newly discovered memoir on the Armenian volunteer units of the First World War.
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