Alexander Myshlayevsky Explained

Alexander Zakharevich Myshlayevsky
Native Name:	Александр Захаревич Мышлаевский
Native Name Lang:	ru
Birth Place:	Zlatopol (now part of Novomyrhorod), Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Date:	1920
Serviceyears:	18741920
Rank:	General of the Infantry
Commands:	Caucasian Army Caucasus Military District Kazan Military District

Alexander Zakharevich Myshlayevsky (1856 - 1920) was a Russian general during World War I. He was the deputy commander of the Caucasian Army and its field commander during the Battle of Sarikamish.^[1] He was originally a military historian graduated from Imperial General Staff Academy. Myshlayevsky was dismissed from service in March 1915.^[2]

References

1. W.E.D. Allen and Paul Muratoff, Caucasian Battlefields, A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border, 1828-1921, The Battery Press, Nashville, TN, 242.
2. W.E.D. Allen and Paul Muratoff, Caucasian Battlefields, A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border, 1828-1921, The Battery Press, Nashville, TN, 269, n2.