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Kuropatkin
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Proper noun
Russian Imperial Minister of War from 1898 to 1904.
en 1989 H. T. Willetts w:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn August 1914 94 w:Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-51999-4 The Germans knew whom they were up against and did not expect him to put them under pressure. He belonged to the Kuropatkin school of saintly passivity.