Show AT DEATHS DOOR general gourko great soldier can scarcely recover now that blood poisoning has beet in from the effects of alie poison recently given him in food general gourko is not likely to recover politically speaking his illness comes at a most opportune moment for it is expected that the russian government will change its tactics in poland and try what a mild regime will do to bring the poles around to sympathy with the franco prussian entente if tho experiment is to be tried gourko would havo to bo moved therefore his death at such a would bo significant gourko cn hussars of the imperial guard and was created captain in 1852 at the ago of 24 in which capacity lio served until the crimean war in 1857 ho was assigned to tho command 0 the emperors squad ron in his old regiment of the guards and in 1860 made an adjutant of the emperor he went on from promotion to promotion and in 1876 as lieutenant general he distinguished himself by flading an advance corps to the danube thence to Tir nova and finally beyond the balkans crea ting great consternation ster nation in the turkish empire later he was created adjutant general and put in command of his own division he is ranked as one of greatest generals |