Nikolai Yanushkevich

Nikolai Yanushkevich
Allegiance	Russian Empire
Service/branch	Russian Imperial Army
Rank	General
Battles/wars	World War I

Nikolai Yanushkevich (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Янушке́вич) (1(13) March, 1868 — 1918) served as Chief of Staff of the General Headquarters (Stavka) of the Imperial Russian Army from March 1914 to September 1915 during World War I.

Life

Graduate of the Nicholas Academy of the General Staff. Head of the Legislative Section of the Chancellery of the Minister of War (1905–1911). Professor at the Academy of the General Staff (1910–1911). Assistant Manager of the Chancellery of the Minister of War (1911–1913). Professor and Head of the Academy of the General Staff (1913–1914).

He was appointed Chief of the General Staff in 1914. With the beginning of the First world war he was appointed Chief of Staff of the General Headquarters (Stavka). His appointment as Chief of Staff owed as much to his political acceptability at court and to an attractive personality that endeared him to both the Tsar Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich.

With Tsar Nicholas II's decision to take personal command of his armies in September 1915 both Grand Duke Nikolai and Yanushkevich were relieved of their posts. Yanushkevich followed the Grand Duke to the Caucasus Front where they were both supervising the continuing successful operations of Nikolai Yudenich until the February Revolution of 1917.

He died during the Russian Civil War in the Caucasus under unknown circumstances.

Honours and awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

• Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class (1893); 2nd class (1902); 1st class (10 April 1911)
• Order of St. Anna, 3rd class (1898); 1st class (29 December 1913)
• Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class (1905); 3rd class (1907)
• Order of St. George, 4th class (23 September 1914)

External links

• Short biography
• V.I. Gurko. Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.

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Name	Yanushkevich, Nikolai
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Date of birth	1868
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Date of death	1918
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