Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Тухаче́вский; Polish: Michał Tuchaczewski) (February 16 [O.S. February 4] 1893 – June 12, 1937) was a Soviet military commander, chief of the Red Army (1925–1928), and one of the most prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s.
Tukhachevsky was born on his family estate Alexandrovskoye (now Slednevo in Safonovo District, Smolensk Oblast) into an aristocratic family r...
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Тухаче́вский; Polish: Michał Tuchaczewski) (February 16 [O.S. February 4] 1893 – June 12, 1937) was a Soviet military commander, chief of the Red Army (1925–1928), and one of the most prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s.
Tukhachevsky was born on his family estate Alexandrovskoye (now Slednevo in Safonovo District, Smolensk Oblast) into an aristocratic family related to Tolstoy's family in its origin. Since Smolensk once was under Polish power some authors by mistake claim a Polish origin for Tukhachevsky. He graduated from the Aleksandrovskoye Military School in 1914, joining the Semyenovsky Guards Regiment. A second lieutenant during World War I, Tukhachevsky was decorated for personal courage in battle. After he was taken prisoner by the Germans in February 1915, he escaped four times from the camps, was captured again, and finally as an incorrigible escapee held in Ingolstadt fortress, where he...
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