Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (born 1893)

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Russian and Soviet military leader (1893-1937)

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later executed during the Moscow trials of 1936–1938.