Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich : : Supreme Commander of the Russian Army /

Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich : : Supreme Commander of the Russian Army / / Paul Robinson.

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Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1856–1929) was a key figure in late Imperial Russia, and one of its foremost soldiers. At the outbreak of World War I, his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, appointed him Supreme Commander of the Russian Army. From 1914 to 1915, and then again briefly in 1917, he was...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Robinson, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2014
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (465 p.) :; 14 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Romanov Family Tree
  • Introduction
  • 1-Education of a Soldier, 1856-1873
  • 2-First Shots, 1873-1878
  • 3-Hunting and Riding, 1878-1895
  • 4-Inspector General: Reforming the Cavalry, 1895-1904
  • 5-The October Manifesto, 1905
  • 6-Restoring Order, 1905-1906
  • 7-The Council of State Defense, 1906-1907
  • 8-Fall from Favor, 1907-1908
  • 9-The Calm before the Storm, 1908-1913
  • 10-Supreme Commander, Summer 1914
  • 11-Stavka
  • 12-0pening Salvoes, August 1914
  • 13-The Warsaw- Ivangorod Operation, September-October 1914
  • 14-The Battle of Lodz, November 1914
  • 15-Winter, December 1914-January 1915
  • 16-Behind the Lines
  • 17-The Carpathian Offensive, February-April1915
  • 18-The Battle of Gorlice-Tarnow, May-June 1915
  • 19-The Great Retreat, July-August 1915
  • 20-Victory in the Caucasus, September 1915-April 1916
  • 21-Governing the Caucasus, May 1916-February 1917
  • 22-Revolution, March 1917
  • 23-Crimea, April 1917-April 1919
  • 24-Exile, May 1919-December 1924
  • 25-The Emigre Congress, January 1925-June 1926
  • 26-Thoughts of God, July 1926-January 1929
  • Epilogue
  • Cast of Characters
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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