Viktor Sakharov

Viktor Sakharov
Viktor Sakharov
Виктор Сахаров
	Nicholas II
Preceded by	Aleksey Kuropatkin
Succeeded by	Aleksandr Roediger
Chief of the Russian General Staff
	In office; 20 January 1898 – 11 March 1904
Preceded by	Nikolai Obruchev
Succeeded by	Pyotr Frolov
Personal details
Born	20 July 1848; Lieutenant General
Battles/wars	Russo-Turkish War; Russo-Japanese War;
Awards	see awards

Viktor Viktorovich Sakharov (Russian: Виктор Викторович Сахаров; 20 July 1848 in Moscow – 22 November 1905 in Saratov) was a Russian lieutenant general and Imperial Minister of War (1904–1905).

Biography

Sakharov was a graduate of the

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). He was subsequently named Assistant Chief of Staff of the Warsaw Military District, then Quartermaster General of the Warsaw Military District, and then Chief of Staff of the Odessa Military District

. In 1898, Sakharov became Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Russian Army.

In early 1904, after the beginning of the

Aleksandr Rediger on 4 July 1905.^[1]

In late 1905, Sakharov was sent to

SR woman terrorist Anastasia Bitsenko in the house of the Saratov governor Pyotr Stolypin

.

His brother

Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov

was also a general in the Imperial Russian Army.

Awards

Order of St. Stanislaus

3rd degree

Order of St. Anne

, 3rd degree with swords (1877)

Order of St. Stanislaus

2nd degree with swords (1877)

Order of St. Anne

, 2nd degree with swords (1878)

Order of St Vladimir

4th degree, with swords (1878)

Order of St Vladimir

3rd degree, with swords (1884)

Order of St. Stanislaus

Order of the Cross of Takovo, (1901) (Kingdom of Serbia)^[2]
Sword with order of the St.George 4th degree and diamonds (1905)

References

ISBN 0-8108-4927-5
.

External links

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

Notes

^ Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, p. 339.
^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 630.

Military offices
Preceded by Nikolai Obruchev	Chiefs of the Main Staff of the Imperial Russian Army 20 January 1898 – 11 March 1904	Succeeded by Pyotr Frolov

[Kowner-1] Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, p. 339.

[2] Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 630.

[1]

v t e Chiefs of the Russian General Staff
Imperial Russian Army (1810–1917)	Volkonsky (1810–23) Dibich-Zabalkansky (1823–28) Chernyshyov (1828–32) Heiden (1866–81) Obruchev (1881–97) Sakharov (1898–1904) Frolov (1904–05) Palitzin (1905–08) Sukhomlinov (1908–09) Myshlayevsky (1909) Gerngross (1909–11) Zhilinsky (1911–14) Yanushkevich (1914) Belyayev (1914–16) Averyanov (1916–17)
Russian Army (1917–1918)	Romanovsky (May–Sep 1917) Marushevsky (Sep–Nov 1917)
Red Army (1918–1946)	Potapov (1917–18) Revolutionary Military Council Stogov (1918–19) Svechin (1919) Rattel (1919–21) Rattel (1918) Kostyayev (1918–19) Bonch-Bruyevich (1919) Lebedev (1919–21) Lebedev (1921–24) Frunze (1924–25) Kamenev (1925) Tukhachevsky (1925–28) Shaposhnikov (1928–31) Triandafillov (1931) Yegorov (1931–37) Shaposhnikov (1937–40) Meretskov (1940–41) Zhukov (1941) Shaposhnikov (1941–42) Vasilevsky (1942–45) Antonov (1945–46)
Soviet Armed Forces (1946–1992)	Vasilevsky (1946–48) Shtemenko (1948–52) Sokolovsky (1952–60) Zakharov (1960–63) Biryuzov (1963–64) Zakharov (1964–71) Kulikov (1971–77) Ogarkov (1977–84) Akhromeyev (1984–88) Moiseyev (1988–91) Lobov (1991) Samsonov (1991–92)
Russian Armed Forces (1992–present)	Dubynin (1992) Kolesnikov (1992–96) Samsonov (1996–97) Kvashnin (1997–2004) Baluyevsky (2004–08) Makarov (2008–12) Gerasimov (2012–present)