Alexander Tukhachevsky | |
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Native name | Александр Николаевич Тухачевский |
Born | 1793 |
Died | 1831 Battle of Warsaw |
Allegiance | Russian |
Service | Army |
Rank | Colonel |
Commands | (14th) Olonets Infantry Regiment |
Battles / wars | November Uprising |
Alexander Tukhachevsky (1793-1831) was a Russian military officer and a colonel of the Imperial Russian Army. A commanding officer of the (14th) Olonets Infantry Regiment, he took part in the Polish-Russian War of 1830 and was killed in the battle of Warsaw (1831).[1] Coincidentally, his great-grandson Mikhail Tukhachevsky was defeated at the gates of Warsaw almost a century later.