Dueling story in 1st life-guards Artillery Brigade (strokes to biography of prominent artillerist L. N. Gobyato)
In the reign of Nicholas II, there was a novelty in the Russian army -allowed duels. Confl ict situations within the corps of Guards offi cers were often due to the contradictions between the graduates of the Academy of General Staff offi cers and the offi cer corps. Diary entries of V. S. Savonko for 1903-1904 are able to trace the confl ict situations, which should have been completed duel among Guard offi cers. One of dueling stories associated with the name of the outstanding artillery offi cer, pracitioner and theorist, the constructor who has made a signifi cant contribution to the development of Russian artillery, mortar inventor, a hero of the Russian-Japanese and World War I Leonid Nikolaevich Gobyato.