1. Vasily Gurko graduated from the Page Corps, an elite school for the children of Russian nobility in 1885 and from the General Staff Academy in 1892.
11 Facts About Vasily Gurko
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Vasily Gurko served as a military attache to the Transvaal Republic and rode with the Boer Army in the Second Boer War.
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Vasily Gurko was a military attache to Berlin in 1901.
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In 1911, Vasily Gurko was appointed to command of the 1st Cavalry Division under Paul von Rennenkampf.
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Vasily Gurko was assigned command of the Sixth Army Corps, attached to Second Army, from 1915 to 1916.
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Vasily Gurko led the Russian counterattack in the January 1915 at the Battle of Bolimov.
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Vasily Gurko commanded the Fifth Army during the Lake Naroch offensive.
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Subsequently, Vasily Gurko commanded the 5th Special Army on the Southwestern Front from August 1916.
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Vasily Gurko was imprisoned at Peter and Paul Fortress for two months, and then exiled in September 1917 to the United Kingdom.
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Vasily Gurko later settled in Italy and participated in the anti-Soviet Russian All-Military Union.
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Vasily Gurko refused an offer to command White movement forces in northern Russia in 1919.