Mikhail Alekseyev

Mikhail Alekseyev
Born	(1857-11-15)15 November 1857 Vyazma, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	8 October 1918(1918-10-08) (aged 60) Ekaterinodar, Russian SFSR
Buried	New Cemetery, Belgrade
Allegiance	Russian Empire  Russian Republic
Service/branch	Imperial Russian Army Volunteer Army
Years of service	1876–1918
Rank	General
Battles/wars	Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War
Awards	Order of St. Stanislav Order of St. George Order of St. Vladimir Order of St. Anne

Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev (Russian: Михаил Васильевич Алексеев) (15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1857 – 8 October [O.S. 25 September] 1918) 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.^[1]