Vasily Glagolev (commander)

Vasily Pavlovich Glagolev (Василий Павлович Глаголев; May 23, 1883 – March 14, 1938) was a Red Army commander.

He served as a staff officer in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I and defected to the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. He fought for them against the White movement in the subsequent civil war. He was made a brigade commander on December 13, 1935, with the reintroduction of military ranks.

During the Great Purge, he was arrested on December 11, 1937, and executed the following year.

Dates of rank

 * Podporuchik 1903
 * Poruchik (August 13, 1905)
 * Stabskapitan (April 30, 1909)
 * Kapitan 1911/1912
 * Podpolkovnik
 * Polkovnik (1916)