GENERAL‐ADJUTANT M. V. ALEKSEEV. THE BEGINNING OF A JOURNEY THAT ENDED ON A BELGRADE'S NEW CEMETERY (NOVO GROBLJE) Cover Image

ГЕНЕРАЛ‐АЂУТАНТ М. В. АЛЕКСЕЈЕВ. ПОЧЕТАК ЖИВОТНОГ ПУТА КОЈИ СЕ ЗАВРШИО НА БЕОГРАДСКОМ НОВОМ ГРОБЉУ
GENERAL‐ADJUTANT M. V. ALEKSEEV. THE BEGINNING OF A JOURNEY THAT ENDED ON A BELGRADE'S NEW CEMETERY (NOVO GROBLJE)

Author(s): Oleg Ajrapetov
Subject(s): History, Military history, Modern Age, 19th Century
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev; family; backgrounds; civil and military education; beginning of career; Russia; 1860‐1870

Summary/Abstract: The biography of the infantry General Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev is an example of how the army in the last period of the existence of imperial Russia played the role of the social lift. The chief of staff of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command in the First World War and one of the leaders of the White Movement, Alekseyev was the grandson of a serf peasant and the son of a cantonist, who received the rank of an officer during the Crimean War defending Sebastopol. He started his way to adjutant general of the last emperor from very modest positions, whose restoration makes it possible to present a real picture of life in Russia in the 1860s and 1870s.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 54-79
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Serbian