Background
Beliaev, Mikhail was born on February 23, 1863.
Beliaev, Mikhail was born on February 23, 1863.
Graduated from the Academy of the General Staff, 1893.
Staff officer during the Russo-Japanese war, 1904-1905. Chief of the General Staff, 1916. Representative of the Russian Army in Rumania, 1916.
Last Defence Minister of the Tsarist government, January-February 1917. Arrested after the February Revolution 1917. Released after the October Revolution 1917, but soon re-arrested and executed.