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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.
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Nicholas was educated by private tutors and the reactionary Pobyedonostzev. ..... Click the link for more information. . 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. ..... Click the link for more information. 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). ..... Click the link for more information. organized an anti-Bolshevik movement in the south. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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