Социально-профессиональный облик офицеров белгородского гарнизона в 1914 г.: общее и особенное

Abstract

In the post-Soviet period scientific research of the officer corps of the Russian Imperial army in the first quarter of the XXth century gained great popularity. The article is part of a large study on the ways of officers of the Imperial army in the years 1914–1922 in Voronezh, Kursk and Tambov provinces. We have tried to undertake a micro-historical analysis of a separate cohort of officers on the example of one of the garrisons of the Kursk province. Using the prosopographic method to identify the socio-professional appearance of the cohort, we were able to determine the general and special features of the officers of the Belgorod garrison on the eve of the First world war. The key point of this period of research were the issues: the study of the age composition of Belgorod artillery officers, the timing of their completion of military schools, the specifics of educational skills required in this kind of troops, as well as the presence of combat experience and national and religious composition of the cohort members. The obtained data allow us to continue studying the life ways of the personalities of our cohort during the World war, the Revolutions of 1917 and the Civil war.