Bidspirit auction | Reports Of Adjutant-General Kuropatkin. Volumes

Reports Of Adjutant-General Kuropatkin. Volumes 1, 2, and 4. - Volume 1. The battle of Liaoyang in August 1904 Compiled from official sources in the Reporting Department Of the office of the Quartermaster General of the Manchurian army in September and October 1904. St. Petersburg, Russia. Thrift printing house, 1906 X, 400 p. Solid modern owner's binding with gold lettering on the spine and preserving the front part of the publishing cover [pasted on the top cover of the binding], enlarged format (17.5 x 24 cm). Washed title page; pink flyleafs; single restoration of pages 17/18 with writing paper; block splits on pages 2 / 3 and 382/383; rare pencil marks; single household and temporary spots. Volume 2. The battle on the Shah river in the last days of September and the first of October 1904. Compiled By General Staff Colonel Bolkhovitinov. St. Petersburg, Russia. Printing house of the partnership ”Public Benefit”, 1906 II, 593, [5] p., 5 inserts with folding maps. Hard modern owner's binding without saving the publisher's cover, enlarged format (17.5 x 24 cm).  Condition not complete: missing cover; washed title page; pink flyleaf; single sheet restorations with writing paper; fatal split block on pages 590-591; traces of pencil underscores on the title.      Volume 4. Result of war. Warsaw, district Headquarters printing House, 1906 [2], X, 416, [2] p. Hardcover of the era with gold lettering on the spine and preserving the front part of the publishing cover [pasted on the top cover of the binding], enlarged format (17.5 x 25.5 cm).  Condition not complete: the title page may be a facsimile reproduction of the original; pink flyleafs; stamps for 1, 3, 400 and 415 pages; sheet IX/X is torn along the spine to the middle; pencil marks in the text; block splits are planned; temporary spots. [Reports on the results of the Russian-Japanese war of one of the” forgotten ” tsarist generals - Alexey Nikolaevich Kuropatkin. If his last name is mentioned in Russian military history, it is almost always in a negative context. And, indeed, can lay claim to a good memory and respect for the descendants of the hapless warlord who lost a campaign. Meanwhile, the biography of the Russian Minister of war in 1898-1904, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army in 1904-1905, is instructive, interesting and eventful in its own way, tragic, full of fatal failures and disappointments. Few people know that Kuropatkin wrote a large number of books and pamphlets that reveal military-strategic issues and contain interesting, detailed descriptions of the countries and peoples with whom the author had to deal during his military career.  The General's writings allow us to characterize him as a thoughtful, serious analyst who has his own, often different from the generally accepted, view of a particular problem. In Soviet historiography, Kuropatkin's personality did not arouse scientific interest. Russian Russian military history and the events of the Russo-Japanese war were mentioned only in research. And usually Kuropatkin was awarded a negative characteristic. It was only in the early 1990s that a number of publications appeared on his life path.]