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Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev

Russian general
Also known as: Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseev
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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...

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