. Review of reviews and world's work. GENERAL ALEXEI NICOLAIEVITCH KUROPATKIN. (Commander-in-chief of the Russian army in the far East.) age. No officer living has more hard-earneddistinctions for valor. Few officers have anequally high record for military science and eru-dition. 442 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF GENERAL KUROPATKINS HEADQUARTERS AT LIAO-YANG. (Showing pagoda outside West Gate.)KUROPATKIN BORN A SOLDIER. General Kuropatkin is a born soldier. Hisfather was an officer, who retired from activeservice when Kuropatkin was of school age andsettled down on his landed estate
. Review of reviews and world's work. GENERAL ALEXEI NICOLAIEVITCH KUROPATKIN. (Commander-in-chief of the Russian army in the far East.) age. No officer living has more hard-earneddistinctions for valor. Few officers have anequally high record for military science and eru-dition. 442 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF GENERAL KUROPATKINS HEADQUARTERS AT LIAO-YANG. (Showing pagoda outside West Gate.)KUROPATKIN BORN A SOLDIER. General Kuropatkin is a born soldier. Hisfather was an officer, who retired from activeservice when Kuropatkin was of school age andsettled down on his landed estate at Pskov, nearSt. Petersburg. Kuropatkin went to the mili-tary school of the cadet corps, and then to thePavlovskoe military college, graduating andgaining his commission as sub-lieutenant whenhe was eighteen. At this time, one great chap-ter of Asian history had just been closed, and an-other had been opened. Count Muravieff hadadded to the Russian Empire the immense terri-tory along the Amur of which Vladivostok isthe capital, and General Chernaieff had com-pleted the first two years of the Turkestan , Kuropatkin grew up in an atmosphere ofRussian expansion in the East, and as soon as hehad his commission, hastened to the scene ofconflict in Central Asia. He reached the frontin 1866, being then eighteen y
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