Miasto i twierdza Grudziądz w rosyjskiej Военнoй энциклопедии z 1912 roku

• Authors: Nastrożny Paweł

Title variants

DE

Stadt und Festung Graudenz in „Wojennaja encyklopedia” von Jahre 1912

EN

The city and fortress of Grudziądz in Russian Военная энциклопедия of 1912

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article aims to provide the description of the city and fortress that was presented in an extensive encyclopedia entry “Грауденцъ” (Grudziądz) in the Volume 8 of Военная энциклопедия (“Encyklopedia wojskowa”), published in 1912 in Pe-tersburg. “Военная энциклопедия” was issued between 1911–1915 and remained unfinished due to the Great War and October Revolution (1917). The initiator of the encyclopedia was Василий Фёдорович Новицкий, the then Colonel of the General Staff of the Russian Empire. The books were issued by his publishing company Иван Д. Сытин. The Volume 8 of the encyclopedia, containing the entry “Грауденцъ” at the pages 456–457, was edited by General К.И. Величко, Colonel В.Ф. Новицкаго, Colonel А.В. фонъ-Шварца, Colonel В.А. Апушкина and Captain 2nd rank Г.К. фонъ-Шульца. The entries of that volume cover “Г” (“G”) and “Д” (“D”), in accordance with the Russian alphabet. The description of the city of Grudziądz included in the entry was relatively short. The authors of the volume dedicated some space to the blockade and siege of 1807, as the events were directly linked with the fortress (a later citadel of the whole defensive complex). The greatest attention was paid to the presentation of the defensive buildings. One must take into consideration the fact that the Vol-ume 8 was published two years before the outbreak of the Great War, so naturally the description can’t have covered the yet non-existent fortifications, built as a result of mobilization enlargement of the fortress. The entry is equipped with the bibliography. The main part of the article presents the translation of the entry. As the text indicates, the Grudziądz fortress, as many others, was hardly a secret to Russians, whose agents regularly gathered information. In certain instances the text is peculiarly detailed. Obviously, not all information possessed by Russians were accurate and true. Nevertheless, such a detailed knowledge of German fortresses at lower Vistula surely influenced the decisions of the Russian staff in the first months of the Great War. The article is complemented by two original figures which were added to the encyclopedia entry. The figures depict the city location in relation to other cities in the region as well as schematic location of the defensive buildings.

• Publisher: Muzeum w Grudziądzu
• Journal: Rocznik Grudziądzki
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 24
• Pages: 215-224

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Nastrożny Paweł

• Grudziądz, Gdańsk

Identifiers

ISSN

0080-3464