Алексей Николаевич Куропаткин／Aleksey Nikolaevich Kuropatkin

Russian general. Born into a military family in Pskov Oblast, he graduated from the Army College (1874). He served as Minister of War from 1898 to 1904, and when the Russo-Japanese War began he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Manchurian Army, and then Commander-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Army, but was dismissed after the Battle of Mukden (present-day Shenyang). During World War I he served as military governor of Turkestan, where he suppressed rebellions in Central Asia. After the October Revolution, he refused the French ambassador's offer of asylum, and retreated to Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, to dedicate himself to writing.

[Tsuguo Tonokawa]

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ロシアの将軍。プスコフ県の軍人の家庭に生まれ、陸軍大学を卒業（1874）。1898～1904年陸相、日露戦争が始まるや満州軍総司令官、ついで極東方面軍総司令官に任ぜられたが、奉天（現在の瀋陽(しんよう／シェンヤン)）の会戦に敗れ、解任された。第一次世界大戦中トルキスタン軍事総督を務め、中央アジアの反乱を鎮圧。十月革命後、亡命を勧めるフランス大使の申し出を断ってモスクワ州ドミトロフに引きこもり著述に専念した。

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