THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XX CENTURY THROUGH THE PRISM OF PERSONALITY: FROM WORLD WAR I TO THE WAR WITH JAPAN; FROM THE PINSK MARSHES TO PORT ARTHUR

This article presents information systematized on the basis of archival documents about the life and military path of Fyodor Makaryevich Bagreev, a man who passed the First World War, the Great Patriotic War and the Soviet-Japanese War, the military commandant of Minsk, Smolensk and Port Arthur. Through the analysis of the biography of this outstanding personality, the connection of an individual with the historical path of Russia in the first half of XX century is determined.