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Mikhail Alekseyev

1857 - 1918

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Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Алексе́ев) (15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1857 – 8 October [O.S. 25 September] 1918) was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Between 1915 and 1917 he served as Tsar Nicholas II's Chief of Staff of the Stavka, and after the February Revolution, was its commander-in-chief under the Russian Provisional Government from March to May 1917. He later played a principal role in founding the Volunteer Army in the Russian Civil War and died in 1918 of heart failure while fighting the Bolsheviks in the Volga region. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Alekseyev is the 567th most popular military personnel (up from 599th in 2019), the 469th most popular biography from Russia (up from 503rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mikhail Alekseyev ranks 567 out of 2,058Before him are Serena, Xu Da, Ivan Yakubovsky, Kirill Moskalenko, Lian Po, and Creighton Abrams. After him are Hossein Salami, Sergey Sokolov, Milunka Savić, Georges Picquart, Saburō Sakai, and Filipp Golikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Mikhail Alekseyev ranks 47Before him are Max Klinger, Wilhelm Johannsen, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Eugène Atget, Williamina Fleming, and Vladimir Bekhterev. After him are Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Theodor Escherich, Theodor Kittelsen, Cyril Genik, Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, and Le Pétomane. Among people deceased in 1918, Mikhail Alekseyev ranks 57Before him are Anna Dostoevskaya, Emil Jellinek, John Bauer, Daniel Burley Woolfall, Victor Adler, and Vasily Radlov. After him are Princess Anna of Prussia, Stepan Shaumian, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Sidónio Pais, Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, and Yevno Azef.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Alekseyev ranks 469 out of 3,761Before him are Nikolay Bobrikov (1839), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Sacha Guitry (1885), Lev Gumilyov (1912), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), and Mikhail Lazarev (1788). After him are Alexander Radishchev (1749), Vasili Kuznetsov (1901), Vasily Surikov (1848), Yaroslav II of Vladimir (1191), Alexander Afanasyev (1826), and Valery Bykovsky (1934).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Mikhail Alekseyev ranks 41Before him are Alexander Yegorov (1883), Dmitry Pozharsky (1577), Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737), and Roza Shanina (1924). After him are Filipp Golikov (1900), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Alexander Pokryshkin (1913), Lauri Törni (1919), Werner Kempf (1886), and Markian Popov (1902).