Allegiance Russian Empire Battles and wars World War I | Battles/wars World War I Rank General officer Name Alexei Evert | |
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Died May 10, 1926, Vereya, Naro-Fominsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia Similar People Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov, Nikolai Ruzsky, Aleksei Brusilov, Pavel Plehve, Aleksey Kuropatkin | ||
Commands held Russian Imperial Army Service/branch Imperial Russian Army | ||
Alexei Evert (Russian: Алексей Эверт; 4 March 1857-10 May 1926) was a Russian Imperial General in World War I, notable for his lack of initiative as commander of the Russian Western Army Group in the Brusilov Offensive.
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Early career
Evert joined the army in 1876 after graduation from Alexander Military School. In 1882 he graduated from General Staff Academy and served in the staffs of 3rd infantry division (1882–1886), Warsaw military district (1888–1893), 11th, 4th and 5th army corps. During the Russo-Japanese war he served as Chief of Staff of the 1st Manchurian army. From 1908 he was commander of the 13th army corps, and from 1912 - of the Irkutsk military district.
World War I
At the start of the war Evert was handed command of the Russian Fourth Army based in Galicia in September 1914, replacing General Anton von Saltza. In August 1915 he was promoted to command Western Army Group. He participated in the unsuccessful Lake Naroch Offensive and the Brusilov Offensive where he commenced a weak and poorly prepared offensive against the Germans to assist Aleksei Brusilov.