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Aleksey Nikolayevich Kuropatkin ( Russian : Алексе́й Никола́евич Куропа́ткин ; March 29, 1848 – January 16, 1925) served as the Russian Imperial Minister of War from January 1898 to February 1904 and as a field commander subsequently. Historians often hold him responsible for major Russian defeats in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 to 1905, most notably at the Battle of Mukden (1905) and at the Battle of Liaoyang (August-September 1904).
Kuropatkin was born in 1848 in Kholmsky Uyezd , Pskov Governorate , in the Russian Empire . His father, a retired army captain, came from landed gentry. Educated in the Cadet Corps and Pavlovsky Military School , Kuropatkin entered the Imperial Russian Army in 1864. On August 8, 1866, he was promoted to lieutenant in the 1st Turkestan Infantry Battalion, and took part in the conquest of Bukhara , the storming of Samarkand and other battles in the Russian conquest of Turkestan . He was promoted to major in A
From 1872 to 1874, Kuropatkin studied at the Nicholas General Staff Academy , after which he was dispatched as a military attaché to Berlin and Paris , completing his military studies, and with the French troops in French Algeria , accompanying a French expedition to Sahara . Returning to Russia in late 1875, he was assigned to the Turkestan Military District . He was awarded the Order of St. George (4th class) for his role in the Russian conquest of Kokand .
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