General V.A. Sukhomlinov. Military Minister of the era of the Great War

In the book of a military historian E.V. Beya, prepared on wide archival and memoirs, presents a biography of one of the contradictory figures of domestic military history - the military minister of the Russian Empire from the cavalry of General"s Prudest Vladimir Alexandrovich Sukhomlinov. The study covers the time of his childhood and youth, the formation as a Russian military and statesman during the reign of Alexander III and the take -off of his career during the reign of Nicholas II. Against the background of the personal portrait, the author considered a wide range of issues relating to the reform of the Armed Forces of Russia and their preparation for the Great War. The main causes of military failures are reflected, as well as the conditions under which the military supply crisis erupted, the so -called “shell hunger” in the first years of confrontation.
Particular attention in the work is given to the events that influenced the fall of the Minister of War V.A. Sukhomlinov, who turned in the eyes of the public into a symbol of corruption and treason in the highest echelons of power