General Alekseev. Tsvetkov V.

The book is devoted to the biography of a talented military leader, author and developer of military-strategic plans and operations of the Russian Imperial Army on the eve of and during the Second Patriotic (First World) War-infantry General Mikhail Vasilievich Alekseev. The features of the formation of his views, assessments of the most important military and political problems of the Russian Empire at the end of the XIX - to the XX centuries are considered.

shows the features of his character, the specifics of his “strategic handwriting” in the planning of military operations, the attitude to the “public” and the ideas of the “national dictatorship”. Separate chapters are devoted to the participation of General Alekseev in the events of 1917, his role in the foundation of the White movement in the south of Russia in 1917-1918.