Mikhail Vasiliyevich Alekseyev (Russian: ?????? ?????????? ????????) (3 November 1857 - 25 September 1918) was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I and the Russian Civil War.

Between 1915 and 1917 he served as Tsar Nicholas II's Chief of Staff of the Stavka; and after the February Revolution; was its commander-in-chief under the Russian Provisional Government from March to May of 1917. He later played a principal role in founding the Volunteer Army in the Russian Civil War and died in 1918 of heart failure while fighting the Bolsheviks in the Volga region. Pictures From History