Vasily Flug

Vasily Egorovich Flug (; March 19, 1860 – December 3, 1955) was an Imperial Russian Army General of the Infantry. A career military officer, he served in the Boxer Rebellion, Russo-Japanese War, and World War I, before joining the White movement during the Russian Civil War. Like many other officers, he went into exile after the end of the Russian Civil War, initially moving to Yugoslavia. After World War II, Flug went to the United States, where he died.

Biography Flug graduated from the 2nd Saint Petersburg Military Gymnasium in 1877 and the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy in 1880 with the rank of second lieutenant, being first assigned to the 7th Horse Artillery Battery. Upon his graduation from the General Staff Academy in 1890, he was appointed head of the drilling staff department of the Vladivostok Fortress on November 26 of that year. From October 4, 1893, Flug served as a squadron commander in the 11th Kharkov Dragoon Regiment. He transferred to become a senior adjutant of the Caucasian Grenadier Division on October 6, 1894.

Essays A mission report from the Volunteer Army to Siberia in 1918//Archives of the Russian Revolution. -Berlin, 1923. -T. 9. -c. 243–304; 10th Army in September 1914, military compendium-kn. V. Belgrade, 1924. -c. 232–260; New French Field Service Statutes/Military Knowledge Bulletin. -No. 1-4. 1931;

Unpublished memoirs From the Kvantuna class to the beginning of the Japanese War (1929, manuscript); The Japanese War of 1904–1905. (1930, manuscript); The Great War (1930, manuscript); Revolution and Civil War (1931, manuscript); After the Russo-Japanese War in the administrative post of 1905–1910. (1932, manuscript); In the Great War, chapter II of the Army Corps. 1915–1917. (1934, manuscript).

Awards Flug received the following awards and decorations: Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class (1896) and 1st class with Swords (1905) Order of the White Eagle with Swords (May 25, 1915) Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class (1893), 2nd class (1900), and 1st class with Swords (1905) Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th class with Swords and Bow (1900), 3rd class with Swords (1905), and 2nd class (December 6, 1911) Gold Sword for Bravery (March 15, 1901) Order of St. George, 4th class (January 9, 1916)