Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich
| Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich | |
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General Bonch-Bruyevich
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| Born |
24 February 1870 Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Died | 3 August 1956 (aged 86) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Allegiance |
 Russian Empire (1892–1917) Russian SFSR (1918–1919)
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| Service/branch |
Imperial Russian Army Red Army |
| Years of service | 1892–1919 |
| Rank |
Major General (Russia) Lieutenant General (Soviet) |
| Battles/wars | Russian Civil War |
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Bonch-Bruyevich (Russian: Михаи́л Дми́триевич Бонч-Бруе́вич; 24 February [O.S. 12 February] 1870 – 3 August 1956) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet military commander, Lieutenant General (1944). His family was of Polish descent. His surname is written in Polish as Boncz-Brujewicz.
From 1892-1895, Bonch-Bruyevich served as an officer with the Lithuanian Guards Regiment, posted at Warsaw.
At the outbreak of World War I Bonch-Bruyevich was in command of the 176th Perevolochensky Regiment, based at Chernigov. He was an eye witness to the aerial ramming attack in which the Russian aviator Pyotr Nesterov died.
He later became chief of staff and deputy commander of the Russian Northern Front. He was commander of the Northern Front from 29 August 1917 to 9 September 1917.
After the October Revolution, he was chief of staff of the Supreme Commander (1917–1918), the military director of the Supreme Military Council, and chief of field staff of the Revolutionary Military Council. He survived the Stalinist purge, in a large part because of his brother, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, who was Vladimir Lenin's personal secretary.
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