40 Facts About Aleksei Brusilov

Aleksei Brusilov is considered a very outstanding general who won many battles against the Austro-Hungarian army.

Aleksei Brusilov is one of the prominent Russian commanders in history.

Aleksei Brusilov's father rose to the rank of Lieutenant General before dying of tuberculosis in 1856.

Aleksei Brusilov's mother died shortly afterwards, and the young orphan was raised by relatives in Kutaisi.

Aleksei Brusilov was educated at home until the age of 14.

Aleksei Brusilov joined the Imperial Corps of Pages in Saint Petersburg in 1867.

Aleksei Brusilov joined the Tver Dragoons in August 1872 and was given command of a troop, but it was not long before his aptitude resulted in the appointment as regimental adjutant.

Aleksei Brusilov's unit operated on the Southern Front in the Caucasus, and took part in the assault of the fortress of Ardagan, for which Brusilov was awarded the Order of Saint Stanislav, 3rd Class.

In 1881, Aleksei Brusilov became a student at the Cavalry Officer School in Saint Petersburg and two years later was appointed as a riding instructor there.

On promotion to Major General in 1900, Aleksei Brusilov was added to the list of Household Troops.

Aleksei Brusilov published papers on the use of cavalry and visited France, Austria-Hungary and Germany to study riding tuition and stud management.

Aleksei Brusilov was appointed to command the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division in 1906, but this was not a happy posting for him.

Aleksei Brusilov remarried at this time, to Nadejda Jelihovski.

The failures of the Russo-Japanese War had led to allegations that generals from immigrant families, who made a significant fraction of the Russian Army's senior ranks, were less patriotic than those who traced their origins to within Russia's borders, and Aleksei Brusilov would come into conflict with the Governor-General in Warsaw, Georgi Skalon, and other "Russian-German" generals in that District.

In July 1914, with the Russian army expanding during mobilisation, Aleksei Brusilov was promoted to command the 8th Army, part of the Southwest Front operating in Galicia.

Aleksei Brusilov's skill helped him get out and he eliminated the breakthrough, blocked enemy troops in the forests, where they were thrown back, and the breakthrough was localized.

Aleksei Brusilov asked several times to speed up the dispatch of things to him, but this was delayed because the government considered it necessary to supply the northwestern front faster.

Aleksei Brusilov then used his personal funds to buy things and shoes in order to help his troops.

Once again, fortunes on other fronts would determine his actions, and the Central Powers breakthrough at Gorlice-Tarnow forced Aleksei Brusilov to withdraw as part of the general retreat.

However, Aleksei Brusilov's victories cast doubt on Austria-Hungary's ability to defend itself against Russian offensives and forced its senior military ally the German Empire to divert forces from the Western Front to assist it.

Aleksei Brusilov constantly organized successful local counterattacks against the enemies, slowing down the offensive.

In October 1915, Aleksei Brusilov wanted to deport 20,000 German civilians from Volhynia.

On 29 March 1916, Aleksei Brusilov was given command of the Southwest Front and managed to secure a certain degree of freedom of action.

Aleksei Brusilov decided to distribute his attack over the entirety of Southwest Front.

Aleksei Brusilov hoped to disorganise the enemy over such a large area that some point would fatally give way.

Aleksei Brusilov decided not to waste resources by saturation bombardment of worthless areas, but to use interdiction fire against command posts, road networks, and other critically important targets to degrade German command and control over the whole front.

Aleksei Brusilov was not even concerned with securing a tremendous local advantage in manpower, permitting divisions under his command to be transferred to other Fronts.

Aleksei Brusilov was awarded the Sword of Saint George with Diamonds for his greatest victory, one of only 8 Russian commanders to receive this award during the First World War.

From 27 June to 3 July 1916, Aleksei Brusilov carried out, on his own initiative, the deportation of 13,000 German civilians from the Volhynian areas that had been conquered during the offensive.

Aleksei Brusilov was sure that after the failure of 1905 the revolutionaries will try to take revenge, Aleksei Brusilov thought that in peacetime he would support the people, but during the greatest war in history he considered it unnecessary to weaken the situation and the army.

Aleksei Brusilov tried to do everything to stop the disintegration of the army, he ordered the killing of Bolsheviks at the front and in the rear in order to stop the propaganda of peace.

Aleksei Brusilov actively supported the shock troops who fulfilled the purpose of the overseers destroying all revolutionary contagion.

Aleksei Brusilov moved to Moscow and remained there at the disposal of the Russian Provisional Government.

Aleksei Brusilov gave an excellent praising to Tomas Masaryk for Czechoslovak Legion soldiers after Battle of Zborov in July 1917.

Aleksei Brusilov saw cooperation with the Soviet state as a way to hold the territory of the former Russian Empire together in the interests of the Russian nation.

Aleksei Brusilov accused exiled White emigrants and the White movement overall of putting their class interests above the interests of the Russian nation.

Aleksei Brusilov considered it a patriotic duty for all Russian officers to join hands with the Bolshevik government, which in his opinion was defending Russia against foreign invaders.

On 12 September 1920, Mikhail Kalinin, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Sergey Kamenev and Aleksei Brusilov signed an appeal, "To all officers of the army of Baron Wrangel," in which they called on White Army officers to go over to the side of the Russian Soviet Republic.

Aleksei Brusilov retired in 1924 but continued to carry out commissions for the Revolutionary Military Council.

Aleksei Brusilov can be described as an ardent Germanophobe, which is confirmed by the entries in his memoirs and actions in Galicia:.