About Mikhail Alekseyev
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. He later played a principal role in founding the Volunteer Army in the Russian Civil War and died in 1918 of heart failure while fighting the Bolsheviks in the Volga region. During the war he was awarded a gold sword, the Order of St. He was subsequently awarded the Order of St. In 1893, Alekseyev entered the Nicholas General Staff Academy, and in 1896 became a lecturer. In March 1915 Alekseyev became the overall commander of the Russian Northwestern Front.
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