Dmitry Savelyevich Shuvayev (; – 19 December 1937) was a Russian military leader, Infantry General (1912) and

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(1916).

Life

Dmitry Shuvayev graduated from Alexander Military School in 1872. Between 1873 and 1875, he participated in campaigns in Central Asia. He left General Staff Academy in 1878. In 1879, he became a professor at the military school in Kiev. He used to command a division (1905) and a

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(1907-1908). In 1909, Shuvayev was appointed head of Chief

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Department and chief quartermaster. He then held a post of Chief Field Quartermaster between December 1915 and March 1916. Shuvayev was appointed minister of war on 15 March 1916, succeeding

Alexei Polivanov Alexei Andreyevich Polivanov (); – 25 September 1920) was a Russian military figure, infantry general (1915). He served as Russia's Minister of War from June 1915 until the Tsarina Alexandra forced his removal from office in March 1916. ...

. In this role he supported with Mitrofan Voronkov and Vladimir Groman, was regards setting the fixed price for grain: Voronkov and Groman argued for fixing prices at a lower value, but the minister Aleksei Bobrinsky, a spokesperson for landed interest, at first succeeded in ensuring the prices were set quite high. However, when Shuvayev became involved, Bobrinsky's policy was overthrown and Voronkov became a much quoted spokesperson on the topic. On 3 January 1917 he was appointed to the

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and succeeded by

Mikhail Belyaev Mikhail Alekseyevich Belyaev (; December 23, 18631918) was a Russian Empire, Russian general of the Infantry, statesman, Chief of the General Staff (Russia), Chief of Staff of the Imperial Russian Army from August 1, 1914, to August 10, 1916, an ...

. After the

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, Shuvayev served in the

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as a commander from 1918 to 1926 and taught at different military schools. His son,

Aleksandr Shuvayev Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Shuvayev (; 8 December 1886, Novocherkassk - December 1943) was a Soviet military commander, who commanded the 4th Red Army in the Battle of Warsaw (1920), during the Polish-Soviet War and fought in the Russian Civil War. ...

, led the 4th Red Army in the Battle of Warsaw during the

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. He retired from military service in 1926. On 5 December 1937, Shuvayev was arrested by the

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. He was sentenced to death on 15 December and shot on 19 December 1937. He was rehabilitated posthumously in 1956.

Honours and awards

* Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st class (1903), 2nd class with swords (1876), 3rd class with swords and bow (1874) * Order of St. Anna, 1st class (1906), 2nd class (1881), 3rd class with swords and bow (1876), 4th class (1874) *

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, 2nd class (5 September 1909), 3rd class (1890), 4th class (1885) * Order of the White Eagle (25 March 1912)

References

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