GURKO, VASILI (1864-193 7) , Russian general, was born in 1864. He was educated in the Corps of Pages, and in 1885 was given a commission in the Grodno Hussar regiment. In 1911 he was chief of the 1st Cavalry division, with which in Aug. 1914 he advanced into Eastern Prussia. In 1915 he was the commander of the VI. corps. At the end of 1917, during General Alexeiev's illness, he fulfilled the duties of chief of staff. Later, after the revolution, he was dimissed by Kerensky, because of his objections to risking an offensive with the army in its then condition of fer ment, and of his outspoken opinions as to the causes of this condi tion. Gurko was imprisoned, released, imprisoned again, and finally sent out of Russia by way of Archangel, with his wife, who was killed in action at a French Red Cross dressing-station on March 23, 1918. General Gurko published Memories and Impressions of War and Revolution in Russia (Eng. ed. 1918).