Alexander Kaulbars

. Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kaulbars (Alexander Wilhelm Andreas of Kaulbars; Russian Александр Васильевич Каульбарс; * 11.jul / May 23 1844greg on the estate Modders / circle Wesenberg, Governorate of Estonia, today: Mõdriku, Lääne- Viru, † January 25th. 1925 in Paris) was a general of the Russian army and explorer.

Kaulbars undertook 1869-1872 expeditions to the Himalayas and took on, among others, the Tian Shan. At the last he completed a trade agreement with Jakub Beg, the new ruler of Kashgar, which was at that time in Chinese Turkestan. In 1873 he participated in the expedition to the Amu Darya. After the Russian-Turkish war from 1878 to 1879 he was a member of the Commission for the new demarcation of Serbia. Between July 1882 and September 1883, he served as Minister of War in Bulgaria, where he brought the ruthless Russian overweight advantage.

In 1892 he formed a new Russian Cavalry Division, 1894 to lieutenant general and commander of the 15th Cavalry Division ( Plotsk ) was promoted in 1901 commanded the 2nd Siberian Corps and participated in the campaign against China during the Boxer Rebellion in part. Then Kaulbars was governor-general of Odessa and later in the Russo- Japanese War in 1904 commander of the 3rd and later the second Manchurian army. Between 1905 and 1909 Kaulbars was commander of the military district of Odessa.

Alexander Vasilyevich of Kaulbars died on 25 January 1925 ( or 1929) in Paris. He was the brother of Nikolai Vasilyevich of Kaulbars, who was also a Russian general.