caption serviceyears branch commands death_place death_date birth_place allegiance awards image_size battles birth_date rank image article_title name
brusilov in 1917 1872 -- 1924 russian army empire 1914 imperial russian army soviet union red russian imperial army moscow , rsfsr , soviet union 17 march 1926 tiflis -rrb- , russian empire -lrb- now tbilisi , georgia russian empire russia russian republic russian sfsr 1918 order -rrb- order of saint anne , 3rd class -lrb- 1877 of -rrb- order of saint stanislav , 2nd class -lrb- 1878 saint ? -rrb- order of saint george , 4th class then stanislav 3rd class -lrb- 1914 -rrb- order of saint george , , sword with diamonds -lrb- 1916 -rrb- 3rd class -lrb- 1877 240 russo-turkish war world war i polish-soviet war 31 august 1853 general adjutant brusilov aleksei in 1917.jpg aleksei brusilov
 aleksei alekseevich brusilov
aleksei brusilov

aleksei alekseevich brusilov -lrb- ; -- 17 march 1926 -rrb- was a russian general most noted for the development of new offensive tactics used in the 1916 brusilov offensive .
the innovative and relatively successful tactics used were later copied by the germans .
his war memoirs were translated into english and published in 1930 as `` a soldier 's notebook , 1914 -- 1918 . ''
