Vasily Gurko
| Vasily Iosifovich Gurko | |
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| Born |
May 20, 1864 Tsarskoye Selo, Russia |
| Died | February 11, 1937 (aged 72) Rome, Italy |
| Allegiance |
 Russian Empire
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| Service/branch | Russian Imperial Army |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held | Russian Imperial Army |
| Battles/wars |
Second Boer War Russo-Japanese War World War I |
Vasily Iosifovich Gurko (20 May 1864 in Tsarskoye Selo – 11 February 1937) (Russian: Василий Иосифович Гурко) served for a brief period as a Chief-of-Staff of the Imperial Russian Army before being forced out of the country in exile following the October Revolution of 1917.
Gurko was the son of Iosif Gurko and brother of Vladimir Gurko. He graduated from the Page Corps, an elite school for the children of Russian nobility in 1885 and from the General Staff Academy in 1892. He served as a military attaché to the Transvaal Republic and rode with the Boer Army in the Second Boer War. He was a military attaché to Berlin in 1901. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 to 1906, he initially held an assignment at the office of the Quartermaster-General of the Manchurian Army, but later commanded a Cossack brigade. After the end of the war, from 1906–1910, he served as chairman of a commission to investigate the reasons for the failure of Russian forces in that conflict.
In 1911, Gurko was appointed to command of the 1st Cavalry Division under Paul von Rennenkampf. With the outbreak of World War I, he led the division in East Prussia and at Battle of Lodz in November 1914 before receiving an appointment as Chief of Staff to Mikhail Alexeev. He was assigned command of the Sixth Army Corps, attached to Second Army, from 1915 to 1916. Gurko led the Russian counterattack in the January 1915 at the Battle of Bolimov.
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