Russian Cossacks (Cossack Cadet Corps, The Great Don Army and Cossacks of the Great Don) recalled the tragic events of the beginning of the Civil War, the victims of which were the Cadets, Junker and the Monarchists, led by Colonel Vasily Mihailovich Chernetsov. The commemorations took place on February 1, 2019 in Novocherkassk, where a memorial service was held at the old cemetery, military honors were given and wreaths laid at the supposed burial place of the general from cavalry, elected Ataman of the Don Donskoy A.M. Kaledin. After a fraternal dinner, Cossack Cadet Corps was held a recital dedicated to the days of the memory of the tragic events on the Don.
On February 2nd, participants will gathered in the village of Kalitvenskaya in the Church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos, pray for those who were killed in 1918-1920. In the village of Glubokoy, the battle was reconstructed from the march at the railway crossing, after which all participants in the reconstruction gave military honors at the Poklonniy Cross at the site of the death of the detachment V.М. Chernetsov, and in the evening in the farm Volchenskoy held a memorial service in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity and giving honors at the cadet burial of the partisans-Chernetsov.
On February 3, reenactors followed the Bolshoy Log – Kaplitsa route, after which, in the area of the Monastyrsky Tract, participants reproduced the military-historical maneuvers of the battle. At the end of the reconstruction, a memorial service for the fallen partisans of the detachment of Colonel Vasily Chernetsov at the Pokrovsky military chapel at Monastyrsky.
“It is very important for us to remember the history,” said the director of the department for the affairs of the Cossacks S.N. Bodryakov. This year, more than 100 cadets, including 70 cadets and 20 teachers of Shakhty general Yakov Baklanov of the Cossack cadet corps, 20 cadets of the Second Don emperor Nicholas II of the Cossack cadet corps, 20 cadets of the Don Emperor Alexander III of the Cossack cadet corps, and also almost 50 members of military history clubs from Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Azov, Shakht, Tatsinskaya stanitsa, 13 Cossacks of cavalry platoons of the Great Don Army from Millerovo, Azov and Oktyabrsky districts were involved in the events.
With the death of a detachment of young Cossacks under the beginning of a young Colonel Vasily Mikhailovich Chernetsov, the Civil War began on Don. In an unequal battle, a partisan detachment from the cadets of the Don Emperor Alexander III of the Cossack cadet corps, students of Don cadets and real schools, gymnasium students formed to defend the Don, and revolutionary Cossack front-line soldiers, with which in January 1918 in large numbers accumulated on the junction railway Station Deep.
January 20 (February 3 in a new calendar) in 1918 after a bright victory at the stations of Zverevo and Likhaya, as well as the capture of Kamenskaya stanitsa V.M. Chernetsov was produced by the Ataman A.M. Kaledin at the rank of Cossack colonel. However, the 27-year-old commander incorrectly assessed not only the mood, but also the number of Glubokaya’s enemy who had accumulated at the station, which was led by military foreman N.M. Golubov. The battle for the station turned for the partisans a tragic defeat. Many of the cadets, once captured, were immediately executed with a rifle butt to the back of the head. The revolutionary-minded Cossacks did not even regret the girls who served as sisters of mercy in the detachment.
V.M. Chernetsov was wounded during the battle and captured by NM Golubov. Despite this, the surviving partisans continued their attack on Glubokaya station from Kamenskaya stanitsa. As a result of the actions of the partisans V.M. Chernetsov managed to escape from captivity and take refuge in the village of Kalitvinsk, where he was born and was baptized. There he exhausted from his wounds. Chernetsov was taken outside the village, where, according to some information, he was shot, according to others, F.G. Podtyolkov personally killed him with a sword. In the course of these events, for the first time since the October Revolution of 1917, the Cossacks came together in battle, brotherly blood was shed. The Don Civil War was began.