Meanings
- Russian Imperial Minister of War from 1898 to 1904.
The Germans knew whom they were up against and did not expect him to put them under pressure. He belonged to the Kuropatkin school of saintly passivity.
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 94
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