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Kuropatkin

Kuropatkin proper noun: russian Imperial Minister of War from 1898 to 1904.

Proper noun

Kuropatkin

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

Questions about Kuropatkin

What does Kuropatkin mean?
Kuropatkin means russian Imperial Minister of War from 1898 to 1904.
What part of speech is Kuropatkin?
Kuropatkin is a proper noun.

Words near Kuropatkin in the dictionary

  1. kuromaku
  2. kuromanin
  3. kuromatsuol
  4. kuromido
  5. kuromitsu
  6. Kuropatkin
  7. kurort
  8. kurortish
  9. kurorts
  10. Kurosawa
  11. Kurosawas

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