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Pavel Plehve

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Allegiance
  
Russian Empire


Died
  
1916, Moscow, Russia

Name
  
Pavel Plehve

Rank
  
General officer

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Commands held
  
Moscow military district, 5th army, Northern front

Battles/wars
  
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) World War I

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Service/branch
  
Imperial Russian Army

Battles and wars
  
Russo-Turkish War

Pavel Adamovich Plehve (June 30, 1850 – March 28, 1916), a German officer, served exclusively in the Russian Army during World War I.

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Military career

After graduation from officer's cavalry school, Plehve served in an uhlan regiment. In 1877, he graduated from the General Staff Academy. During the Russo-Turkish War, Plehve served as a staff officer of the 13th corps, and after the war worked in the Bulgarian war ministry, returning to Russia in 1880.

During peacetime Plehve raised through the ranks, commanding cavalry regiment (1890), Nicholas cavalry school (1895), 2nd cavalry division (1899) and Moscow military district (1909).

World War I

He was given command over the Fifth Army which he led in the Battle of Galicia and the defence of Lodz. The following year he switched command to the new Twelfth Army, which he led in the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes in February 1915 (where the Russian Tenth Army was defeated by the Germans). He subsequently returned to command of Fifth Army and, briefly, commanded the northern sector of the Eastern Front. Plagued for years by poor health Plehve was finally invalided out of the army in February 1916; he died later the same year.

References

Pavel Plehve Wikipedia


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