THE CAREER OF GENERAL KOMAROFF.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2036, 25 July 1885, Page 4

THE CAREER OF GENERAL KOMAROFF.

Tiik Beilin Illustiirte Zcitung of the 2nd May gives a memoir of General Komaroff, written with soinewh.it of an anti-English bias. It says : — " This man, so famous in the conflict of pen and ink and despatches which is now occupying the attention of Europe and Asia, is the second of fnnr brothers, all of them distinguished soldicis in the sei vice of Russia. Lieut.-General Alexander Wissarionowisch Komaroff, ' the conqueror of the Afghans," was born in 1 823. He uas educated at the St Peti rs burg Cadet School, which he quitted in 181!), rceeh ing an Ensign's comniisHion in the Kille Corps of the Imperial Guaid. He took p.ut with Ins legunent in the campaign against the Hungaiian insurgents m 1840, and on it« tcinnnation studied at the academy of the gcucial btalf in .St lVtcihbuig, through which lie passed with much cicdit In IBoshewas iip t )ointed to the staff of the Imperial (Juaid, but was trausfened a year Inter to the Caucasus, and from lSr>G to 18.">9 took put in mo>t of the disultory opeiaI tinns against the Circassian mountaineers, winch tne Russian forces cany on there ; l>ut untd the 30th of March last had seen no service against foreign troops. All tnese years General KomarofF continued to distinguish himself as a military administrator. In 1870 we find him Governor of Derbcnt, in Southern Daghestnn, and employed m organising the TianaCaipian district. At Tiflis hf was tlie right hand man of the Giand Duke Michael, uncle to the present Czar After the Russo Turkish war of 1877, Komaroff was put in charge of the administration of tlie newly-acquired fortresses of Kars and Batoiiiii. Thus lising from step to step, he was in ISS2 appointed Governor of the w hole trans Caspian region, and it devolved on him to complete tlie woik begun by SkobelofF of pacifying ' the uni uly Tin conian tubes.' The submission oftheMeiv Tekkes was biought about by Kotnai oil's diplomacy, and he was successful 'in enforcing respect for tieatics and maintaining order up to the fui thest limits of Russian territoiy.'" On the 30th of March last Komaroff " read a severe lewin to the Afghans and the ' behind - them - standing English.' The judicial calmness of Ins mind is e\ i deuced by the fnct tint after the ' incident' at I'al i Ivhiiti, he did not advance fuither, but, iguoung the noisy preparations at London and Calcutta, retired with dignity to Saraklis — thus showing himself to be eminently fitted to keep oider and maintain right." Geneial Komaioff ii, in addition, a learned archaeologist, and entomologist, and h»s made valuab'e contributions to the Caucasian Musrntn.

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