Alexander Tukhachevsky (1793-1831) was a Russian military officer and a colonel of the

Imperial Russian Army The Imperial Russian Army () was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia. The standing army consisted of Regular army, regular troops and ...

. A commanding officer of the (14th) Olonets Infantry Regiment, he took part in the Polish-Russian War of 1830 and was killed in the

battle of Warsaw (1831) The battle of Warsaw (, ), also known as the battle and storming of Warsaw, was fought in September 1831 between Imperial Russia and Poland. After a two-day assault on the city's western fortifications, the Polish defences collapsed and the ci ...

. Coincidentally, his great-grandson

Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, p=tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj; – 12 June 1937), nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominen ...

was defeated at the gates of Warsaw almost a century later.

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1793 births 1831 deaths Imperial Russian Army personnel Nobility from the Russian Empire Russian people of the November Uprising Military personnel of the Russian Empire killed in action {{russia-mil-bio-stub