Viktor Sakharov

Viktor Viktorovich Sakharov

Skrydlov in 1904
Born 1848
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died 22 November 1905
Saratov, Russia
Allegiance  Russian Empire
Service/branch Russian Imperial Army
Years of service ?–1905
Rank Lieutenant General
Battles/wars Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78
Russo-Japanese War

Viktor Viktorovich Sakharov (Russian: Виктор Викторович Сахаров ), (1848 22 November 1905, Saratov) was a Russian Lieutenant General and Minister of War (1904-1905).

Biography

Sakharov was a graduate of the Nicholas Academy of the General Staff and served in 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 Russo-Japanese War, Sakharov succeeded Aleksey Kuropatkin as a Minister of War, when Kuropatkin was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian land forces in Manchuria. Sakharov remained in St Petersburg throughout the war, and had little influence on the strategy or tactics of the conflict. He was dismissed from this post by Tsar Nicholas II on 21 June 1905 and replaced by Lieutenant General Aleksandr Rediger on 4 July 1905.[1] In late 1905, Sakharov was sent to Saratov Province to restore order during agrarian disturbances. On 22 November 1905, he was mortally shot by the SR woman terrorist Anastasiya Bitsenko in the house of the Saratov governor Pyotr Stolypin.

His brother Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov was also a general in the Imperial Russian Army.

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Notes

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