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Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev

Russian general
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Alekseyev also spelled:
Alekseev
Born:
Nov. 15 [Nov. 3, old style], 1857, Tver, Russia
Died:
Oct. 8, 1918, Yekaterinodar [now Krasnodar] (aged 60)
Political Affiliation:
White Army

Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev (born Nov. 15 [Nov. 3, old style], 1857, Tver, Russia—died Oct. 8, 1918, Yekaterinodar [now Krasnodar]) was the commander in chief of the Russian Army for two months in World War I and a military and political leader of the White (anti-Bolshevik) forces in the Russian Civil War that followed the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The son of a private soldier, Alekseyev entered the Russian Army in 1876 and was graduated in 1890 from the staff college. He became a general in 1904. Early in World War I, he planned the successful Russian offensive into Galicia. ...(100 of 235 words)

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