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Mikhail Tukhachevsky, in full Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, (born February 16 [February 4, Old Style], 1893, near Slednevo, Russia—died June 11, 1937), Soviet military chief responsible for modernization of the Red Army prior to World War II. Tukhachevsky was born to a noble family and graduated from the Alexandrovskoe Military Academy ...

TUKHACHEVSKY, MIKHAIL NIKOLAYEVICH. (1893–1937), prominent Soviet military figure; strategist, commander, weapons procurer. Mikhail Tukhachevsky is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of the Soviet armed forces. Born into aristocracy, he attended prestigious imperial military schools and academies before joining ...

General Mikhail Tukhachevsky was arrested on May 22, 1937 and charged, along with seven other Red Army commanders, with the creation of a "right-wing- Trotskyist " military conspiracy and espionage for Nazi Germany, based on confessions obtained from other arrested officers.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky , nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later executed during the show trials of 1936-38.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Тухаче́вский; February 16 [O.S. February 4] 1893 – June 12, 1937) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, commander in chief of the Red Army (1925–1928), and one of the most prominent victims of Joseph Stalin 's Great Purge. Contents 1 Early life 2 During the Civil War