Aleksey Andreyevich Polivanov

Aleksey Andreyevich Polivanov (born March 16 [March 4, Old Style], 1855—died Sept. 25, 1920, Riga, Latvia) was a general in the imperial Russian army who, during World War I, was appointed minister of war in 1915 to revitalize the sagging Russian war effort. A capable administrator of liberal sympathies, he was dismissed after less than a year. Having fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, Polivanov served on the army’s general staff (1899–1904), during which...