24 Facts About Nikolai Ruzsky

Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzsky was born in the Russian Empire on March 6,1854, into a family of nobility from the Kaluga Governorate.

Nikolai Ruzsky's father, Vladimir Dmitriyevich, was an official in the 12th Grade.

Nikolai Ruzsky's father died when Ruzsky was a year old and he was put under auspices by the Moscow Custodian Council.

In 1870, Nikolai Ruzsky graduated from the Cadet Corps at first class.

From March 1882 to November 1887, Nikolai Ruzsky became the senior adjutant of the headquarter of the Kiev Military District.

Nikolai Ruzsky participated in the battles at Sandepu and Mukden.

Nikolai Ruzsky investigated the case of the surrender in Port Arthur.

In December 1909, General Nikolai Ruzsky became a member of the Ministry of War, and was involved in the development of charters and manuals, and was one of the authors of the Field Regulations of 1912.

In February 1912, General Nikolai Ruzsky was again appointed to the Kiev Military District, this time as the assistant commander of the troops in the district.

General Nikolai Ruzsky gained the name, the "Conqueror of Galicia", and he gained great public reputation back in Russia, even his opposition circles.

From early September 1914 to mid-March 1915, General Nikolai Ruzsky was the commander-in-chief of the entire Northwestern Front.

In mid-March 1915, due to poor health, General Nikolai Ruzsky left the front and handed over the command to the Army Chief of Staff, General Mikhail Alekseyev.

Sometimes later, he returned to the highest command thanks to a personal decision by Tsar Nicholas II despite which General Nikolai Ruzsky revealed his shortcomings as a military leader to the tsar.

In late June, General Nikolai Ruzsky was appointed the commander of 6th Army and in mid-August, he was appointed to command the whole Northern Front, but in December 1915, he fell ill while commanding the front and left.

Nikolai Ruzsky held the tsar by one hand, with the other hand holding the manifesto, and repeatedly said:.

Nikolai Ruzsky argued heatedly about the need of the immediate imposition of the Responsible Ministry.

Nikolai Ruzsky was then relieved from command, after which he went south to Kislovodsk.

In early September 1918, General Nikolai Ruzsky was arrested in Essentuki by the Red Army, who offered him a command, although he rejected it.

Nikolai Ruzsky referred to the fact that he rejected the war of "Russians against Russians".

Shortly before his terror demise, General Nikolai Ruzsky sought to justify himself before his descendants, sharing his memories after the overthrow of the monarchy and the Bolshevik coup d'etat.

Nikolai Ruzsky understood that such a sudden change in the tsar's opinion in favor of the Responsible Ministry, would, in fact, look suspicious.

Therefore, General Nikolai Ruzsky tried to assure that before the tsar gave his consent, he would remark that there had been "some kind of change in the sovereign".

For General Nikolai Ruzsky, it was important that memory of his descendants would form the belief that everything happened with the tsar's full consent.

Nikolai Ruzsky did not want to look like a conspirator, but a loyal subject, acting in harmony with his Sovereign.