Viktor Sakharov

Viktor Viktorovich Sakharov (1848 — November 22, 1905, Saratov) was a Russian Lieutenant General and Minister of War (1904-1905).

Life
Sakharov was a graduate of the Nicholas Academy of the General Staff. He served in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878, after which he was Assistant Chief of Staff of Warsaw Military District, then Quartermaster General of the Warsaw Military District, and then Chief of Staff of the Odessa Military District.

Chief of the General Staff (1898). In 1904, after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, Sakharov succeeded Aleksey Kuropatkin as a Minister of War, when Kuropatkin was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian land forces in Manchuria. Resigned 21 June 1905.

Sakharov was killed in Saratov Gubernia, where he had been sent to restore order during agrarian disturbances. On November 22, 1905, he was mortally shot by the SR woman terrorist Anastasiya Bitsenko in the house of the Saratov governor Pyotr Stolypin.

His brother Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov was also a Russian Army general.