Kuropatkin

English

Proper noun

Kuropatkin

1. Russian Imperial Minister of War from 1898 to 1904.
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 94:

     The Germans knew whom they were up against and did not expect him to put them under pressure. He belonged to the Kuropatkin school of saintly passivity.