Vasily Fedorovich Novitsky

Vasily Fedorovich Novitsky (Russian: Василий Фёдорович Новицкий, 30 March [O.S.

[2] His Indian studies were released in 1899, in a semi-classified document, Military Sketches of India, which he was held in high regard for, especially since he had detailed the dangerous Leh–Yarkand–Kashgar route.

[4] Novitsky was authorised for first department — special military knowledge (Russian: специальных военных знаний) — and the assistant editor was Colonel A. V. Héroys [ru].

This department covered the following areas of military affairs: When the Russian Revolution destroyed Imperial Russia, Novitsky came to accept the new social and political change.

[1] His namesake, Vasily Dementyevich Novitsky, who lived at the same time as Vasily Fedorovich (do not confuse the two), was with a liberal, progressive viewpoint, most famously known for his liberal handling of the 1899 Russian student strike, as he was called in to handle protesting students as a military officer.

"[8] But in 1902, as the head of the Kiev gendarme, Vasily Dementyevich became more menacing towards revolutionary elements.