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Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev, (born Nov. 15 [Nov. 3, old style], 1857, Tver, Russia—died Oct. 8, 1918, Yekaterinodar [now Krasnodar]), 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 ...

White organising in the South started on 15 November 1917, under General Mikhail Alekseyev. In December 1917, General Lavr Kornilov took over the military command of the newly named Volunteer Army until his death in April 1918, after which General Anton Denikin took over, becoming head of the "Armed Forces of the South of Russia" in January 1919.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev 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.

A number of senior officers, including Kornilov and former commander in chief Mikhail Alekseyev, escaped to the southeast and began to plan an anti-Bolshevik force, the so-called Volunteer Army, in the region of the Don. While Kornilov and Alekseyev built what would become the White Army, Kerensky remained in hiding, eventually escaping to the ...

General Mikhail Alekseyev was the Supreme Commander after the Grand Duke stepped down on 24 March 1917. General Aleksei Brusilov replaced Alekseyev on 4 June 1917, ahead of the Kerensky Offensive. General Lavr Kornilov was appointed Supreme Commander on 31 July 1917.

Alekseyev, Mikhail Vassilievich (General Alekseyev, Mikhail Alekseyev) Russian general. Born 15 November 1857 in Vyazma, Russia. Died 08 October 1918 in Ekaterinodar, Russia. Mikhail Alekseyev was a Russian general who was the chief of staff of the general headquarters ( Stavka) of the Russian army from August 1915 until May 1917.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Alekseyev ( Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Алексе́ев, 6 May 1918, Monastyrskoye, Saratov Governorate, RSFSR - 21 May 2007, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet writer and editor, writing mostly about the Great Patriotic War ( Soldiers, 1951, 1959; My Stalingrad, 1993-1998, the Fatherland ...

Mikhail Nikolayevich Alekseyev was a Russian Soviet writer and editor, writing mostly about the Great Patriotic War and the life of Soviet peasantry . His controversial Fighters novel was one of the few non-dissident works of the time to bring about the issue of the 1933 Soviet famine.