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Alekseyev, Mikhail Vasilyevich

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Alekseyev, Mikhail Vasilyevich (mēkhəēl`vəsē`lyəvĭch əlyĭksyā`əf), 1857–1918, Russian general, chief of staff (1915–17) of Czar Nicholas II Nicholas II, 1868–1918, last czar of Russia (1894–1917), son of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna. Road to Revolution


Nicholas was educated by private tutors and the reactionary Pobyedonostzev.
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. With other officers he urged the czar to abdicate in favor of the czarevich in order to save the dynasty prior to the Russian Revolution. Alekseyev was briefly chief of staff in the provisional government headed by Aleksandr Kerensky Kerensky, Aleksandr Feodorovich , 1881–1970, Russian revolutionary. A lawyer, he was elected to the fourth duma in 1912 as a representative of the moderate Labor party.
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 after the czar was overthrown. After the Bolsheviks took over in Nov., 1917 (Oct., 1917, O. S.), Alekseyev and General Kornilov Kornilov, Lavr Georgyevich , 1870–1918, Russian general, anti-Bolshevik commander during the civil war (1918–20). He fought in the Russo-Japanese War, and in World War I he was captured (1915) by the Austrians and escaped (1916).
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 organized an anti-Bolshevik movement in the south.


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