paul nicolaïevitch chatiloff

Born in a noble family of soldiers, son and grandson of generals. He studied at the 1st Corps of Cadets in Moscow, promoted officer in the Corps of Pages in 1900. He was then admitted to the Cossack Regiment of the Guard as a second lieutenant. A cavalry officer, he took part in the Russo-Japanese War, where he was wounded and decorated, within the 4th Siberian Cossack Regiment. In 1908, he left the Academy of the General Staff. He began the First World War as lieutenant-colonel, chief of staff of the cavalry division, then he was assigned to the staff of the southwest front. He was then decorated with the weapon of the Order of Saint George of the 4th degree. Promoted colonel at the end of 1915, he was appointed chief of staff of the 2nd division, then he received the command of the 1st Cossack regiment of the Black Sea in this same division and was decorated with the order of St. George of the 3rd degree . He was appointed major-general in 1917. From September to December 1917, he was imprisoned in Tbilisi for his support for General Kornilov. On March 27, 1918, he received the Third Class Order of St. George for excellence in front of the enemy while he was colonel in command of the 1st Black Sea Cossack Regiment. He joined the Volunteer Army at the end of 1918, commanded the 1st Army Division Wrangel, then became its Chief of Staff when the latter was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Southern Russia. On January 7, 1919, his troops took the city of Gueorguievsk then annihilated the formation of the Red Army of Mineralnye Vody before occupying the Terek oblast and Dagestan. In the spring of 1919 General Chatilov distinguished himself during operations near the Manytch River, routing a formation of thirty thousand Red soldiers. Shatilov and his men crossed the Manytch and struck the decisive blow in the vicinity of Velikokniajeskaya. Following this battle he was appointed lieutenant general and received command of the 4th Cavalry Corps.

From June 1919 he was the Chief of Staff of the Caucasian Army commanded by General Wrangel. In December 1919 - January 1920 he commanded the staff of the volunteer army when it was commanded by Wrangel. At the beginning of 1920, after the conflict between Wrangel and Denikin, Wrangel and Chatilov were excluded from the service and left for Constantinople.

He evacuated Crimea in the fall of 1920 with the remnants of the White Army. Wrangel appoints him general. (cavalry) in November 1920. During his exile, he remained until 1922 officially Chief of Staff of the Russian Army under General Wrangel and remained at his disposal until 1924. He was from the Russian Military Union, which earned him be arrested during the German occupation. He left many memories at the American University of Columbia and published in two volumes in 2017. He rests with Sophie Féodorovna, née Fortwengler (1887-1983); Maria Petrovna, née Nalivkina (1853-1933); Warrant Officer Fourrier Jean Maximovich Erofeiev (1884-1962). He donated his memoirs to Columbia University (United States) with a ban on publication until the 21st century.