Alekseev General Biography

General M. Alekseev and the ranks of the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Colonel A. Noskov, Major General M. Pustovotenko and Major General V. Borisov, he personally selected reliable parts from the front to send to Petrograd. Rodzianko, that he completely controls the situation in the capital, and the sending of new troops from the front to it will only worsen the situation there and that the situation can only be saved by the renunciation of the emperor, canceled his former decision.

Alekseev handed the emperor the telegram of the heads of all fronts and Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, and, having read them, agreed to renounce the throne in favor of his brother Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, but he, as you know, refused to occupy him. After the renunciation of Nicholas II, General Alekseev was appointed the Provisional Government of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Army.

But, in turn, Mikhail Vasilievich openly condemned the policy of the Provisional Government, which he believed, led to the decomposition of the army. The last order of Alekseev in the army read: “For almost three years with you, I walked along the thorny path of the Russian army. He experienced the bright joy of your victories. He was sick with his soul on the difficult days of our failures.

But he went with a firm faith in the Providence of God, to the calling of the Russian people and the valor of the Russian troops, and now that the foundations of military relics trembled, I keep the same faith. It would not be worth living without it. Low bow to you, my fighting associates. To everyone who honestly fulfilled their duty. Everyone in whom the heart beats with love for the homeland.

To everyone who, in the days of popular unrest, retained the determination to not give to pieces of their native land, a low bow from the old soldier and your former commander in chief. Do not remember dashing. " Military Minister A. Kerensky dismissed Alekseev from his position, appointing A. but soon Kerensky had to resort to Alekseev’s help, when his struggle against L. began and General Alekseev again accepted the position of chief of staff of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief after the removal of Kornilov from this post.

Alekseev accepted this post in the hope of preventing the conflict between Kornilov and Kerensky. He did it also because to save General Kornilov and his supporters. Arriving at the bet, he personally stopped the revolutionary units moved by Kerensky to the Headquarters so that they could not deal with Kornilov. Then he ordered the arrest of Kornilov and his supporters and their imprisonment in the Bykhov prison under the protection of reliable troops, including those devoted to the Kornilov of the Tekinsky regiment.

After that, Alekseev resigned. Immediately after the events of October, Alekseev left Smolensk, where he lived with his family in Petrograd. He began to form a military organization built on a voluntary basis - the future Volunteer Army - the core of which was to become the officer corps with the support of the Cossacks, junkers and other anti -Bolshevik forces.

From Petrograd at the end of November, at the request of a number of officers, Alekseev left for Novocherkassk. And already on December 25, he published an appeal in which he called on all the Russian military to “save their homeland”. At the same time, General Kornilov also arrived from Bykhov to Novocherkassk. Between him and Alekseev, not very sympathetic at all, friction began, led to clashes, which were very sharp.

But soon, they divided the power among themselves: Alekseev began to be in charge of finance, domestic and foreign policy, and Kornilov accepted the army command. On a volunteer basis, it was possible to create an almost hundred thousandth army, and on February 14, she spoke in her 1st Kuban campaign. In the spring of the year, during the assault on Yekaterinodar, General Kornilov died.

Help God. " After returning from the campaign, Mikhail Vasilievich wanted to go to the Urals to head the Ufa Directory, but the situation in the south of Russia, which had developed in the summer of the year, did not allow these intentions. In June, the 2nd Kuban campaign began. With the occupation of Yekaterinodar, General Alekseev as the Supreme Head of the Volunteer Army paid a lot of attention to the creation of civil administration in the city.

He also initiated the creation of a special meeting that performed the functions of the government. General Denikin remained the army commander, acting in full agreement with Alekseev. But by that time he was already sick and had died on September 25. Mikhail Vasilievich Alekseev was solemnly buried in the tomb of the military cathedral of the city, and one of the elite regiments of the Volunteer Army was assigned a special name "Alekseevsky".

At the beginning of the year, during the evacuation from Yekaterinodar, the family transported his ashes abroad and buried in the Russian cemetery in Belgrade. There is an inscription on his grave: "Mikhail Vasilievich Alekseev - a Russian commander." Founder and Supreme Head of the Volunteer Army, General M.