Viktor Sakharov

Viktor Viktorovich Sakharov
General Viktor Sakharov in 1904
Minister of war
In office
7 February 1904 – 21 June 1905
Monarch Nicholas II
Preceded by Aleksey Kuropatkin
Succeeded by Aleksandr Roediger
Personal details
Born 1848
Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
Died 22 November 1905
Saratov, Saratov Governorate, Russia
Military service
Allegiance  Russian Empire
Service/branch Russian Imperial Army
Years of service ?–1905
Rank Lieutenant General
Battles/wars Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878
Russo-Japanese War
Awards see awards

Viktor Viktorovich Sakharov (Russian: Виктор Викторович Сахаров; 1848, Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire – 22 November 1905, Saratov, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire) 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.

Awards

References

  • Kowner, Rotem (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War. ISBN 0-8108-4927-5: The Scarecrow Press. templatestyles stripmarker in |location= at position 1 (help)

Notes

  1. ↑ Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, p. 339.
Military offices
Preceded by
Nikolai Obruchev		 Chiefs of the Main Staff of the Imperial Russian Army
20 January 1898 – 11 March 1904		 Succeeded by
Pyotr Frolov


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