César Cui, Russian general, composer, and critic (died 1918)

César Antonovich Cui was a Russian composer and music critic, member of the Belyayev circle and The Five – a group of composers combined by the idea of creating a specifically Russian type of music. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army, he rose to the rank of Engineer-General, taught fortifications in Russian military academies and wrote a number of monographs on the subject.