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Alexander Tukhachevsky

Alexander Tukhachevsky

Russian military officer (1793–1831)

Alexander Tukhachevsky (1793-1831) was a Russian military officer and a colonel of the Imperial Russian Army. A commanding officer of the (14th) Olonets Infantry Regiment, he took part in the Polish-Russian War of 1830 and was killed in the battle of Warsaw (1831).[1] Coincidentally, his great-grandson Mikhail Tukhachevsky was defeated at the gates of Warsaw almost a century later.

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    Kantor, Yulia (2005). Война и Мир Михаила Тухачевского (PDF). Moscow: Огонек. p. 35. ISBN 5-89947-007-0.


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