 | The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia Subjects: Russia -- History -- Nicholas II 1894–1917; World War 1914–1918 -- Russia; Treason -- Russia -- History; Espionage German -- Russia -- History; Miasoedov Sergei Nikolaevich 1866–1915; Sukhomlinov Vladimir Aleksandrovich 1848–1926; In the early morning of March 19, 1915, Lt. Colonel S. N. Miasoedov, a former gendarme officer on active duty with the Russian army in World War I, was hanged after a two-hour trial in Warsaw for treason. Although he was innocent of this charge... William C. Fuller, Jr., is Professor of Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914 a nd Civil-Military Conflict in Imperial Russia, 1881-1914 . |
