OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19280, 19 March 1926, Page 11

OBITUARY.

GENERAL BRUSSILOFF.

PART IN GREAT WAR.

(Received 5.5 p.m.) Renter MOSCOW. March 17

The death has occurred of General Brussiloff, the famous Russian cavalry commander, in his J3rd year.

Alexei A. Brussiloff, who came of the Russian nobility, was born in September. 1853, and joined the corps of pages. He entered the Tver Dragoons in 1871 and took part in the war against Turkey m 1878. In 1900 he "became director of the cavalry school for officers at Petrograd. and in 1906 commanded the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division. He did not play any very important part in the war with Jap*an. In 1909 he commanded the Army Corps and was later assistant to General Skalon, who was Governor of the Warsaw Military District. At the beginning of the world war he was in command of the 12th Corps and then of the Bth Army which did brilliant work in Galicia. On September 3, 1914, lie captured the stubbornly defended town of Halicz. Four times he crossed the Carpathians with his troops. But in October. 1914, he was driven back near MarmarosSziget in Hungary and got the worst of the fighting round Przemvsl in .June. 1915.. Only when following on the defeats of 1915, the War Minister, Suchomlinoff, had been made the scapegoat did Brussiloff's luck turn again. On April 5, 1916, he was put in charge of the armies of Kaledin, 'Sherbatieff, Sacharoff and Leshnitzki, on the south-west front, and during the subsequent summer be carried out the great offensive in Galicia, in which he took 450.000 prisoners with vast booty, and relieved the Italian armies by drawing off troops to meet the crisis in Galicia. But eventallv his advance was held up. In May, 1917, after the Kerensky revolution he was given the supreme command and carried out the final Russian offensive, but conditions at the front rapidly became hopeless and he resigned. In 1920, in view of the war with Poland, he placed his services at the disposal of the Soviet Government, together with other generals of the old regime, and was for some years emploved by Trotzky as a military expert, liut he" did not command any of the Soviet forces. In the spring of 1925 ne went to Western Europe and settled in Prague