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NICOLAS VLADIMIRO- VITCH, a Russian soldier, born about 1853. He was educated at a military academy in St. Petersburg, and when but 18 years of age served in the Turkish War in the Grenadier Guards. He was made a colonel at 31 and a majorgeneral at 42. He served as chief of staff in the Second Manchurian Army during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904- 1905. He afterward became a member of the Army Council and commanded an At the outbreak of the army corps.
World War he commanded the Russian forces which won a great victory over four Austrian army corps near Lemberg, in September, 1914. In 1915 he commanded the Russian forces near Riga, and his exertions SO undermined his health, that he died in the same year.