Alexei Nikolayevich Kuropatkin (1848-1921) was a Russian general.
He entered the army in 1864. From 1872 to 1874 he studied at the Nicholas staff college, after which he spent a short time with the French troops in Algiers. In 1875 he was employed in diplomatic work in Kashgaria and in 1876 he took part in military operations in Turkistan, Kokan and Samerkand. In the war of 1877-1878 against Turkey he earned a great reputation as chief of staff to the younger Skobelev, and after the war he wrote a detailed and critical history of the operations which is still regarded as the classical work on the subject and is available for other nations in the German translation by Major Krahmer. After the war he served again on the south-eastern borders in command of the Turkestan Rifle Brigade.
During the First World War, Kuropatkin served in command of the GrenadierCorps starting in October, 1915. In February, 1916, he became Commander, North Front. He was relieved of command in July, 1916, and assigned to Turkestan, where he served as Governor-General of the Turkestan Military District. Kuropatkin retired from the military in 1917.
Kuropatkin's intention was to work round the Japanese right on the hills with his eastern wing (Stakelberg), to move his western wing (Bilderling) slowly southwards, entrenching each strip of ground gained, and finally with the centre - i.e.
Kuropatkin was reinforced, and appointed Kaulbars to succeed Grippenberg and Bilderling to the command of the 3rd Army vacated by Kaulbars.
Kuropatkin was at last convinced, on the 28th of February, of the danger from the west, and did all in his power to form a solid line of defence on the west side of Mukden.
A.N. Kuropatkin was born on March 17th 1848 in the Pskov province of Russia, the son of a provincial official.
GeneralKuropatkin replaced General Livenvich as Commander of the 1st Manchurian Army on 21 March 1905, holding this position until 16 February 1906.
As most of the histories of the war relate, GeneralKuropatkin was one of the few who fully understood the question of Manchuria as it pertained to both the political and military realities of the time.
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