Alexander von Taube

Baron Alexander Alexandrovich von Taube (21 August 1864 – January 1919) was an Imperial Russian general.

After 1916 democratic revolution in Russia he was elected by soldiers council to lead the Omsk (Siberia) military district.

After 1917 Bolshevik insurrection he was conscripted, as military specialist, to serve in the Red army.

Being taken to Yekaterinburg, at that time one of the centers of the White movement) he was investigated, offered service with the Volunteer Army, however while still in detention he died of typhus.

At the same time, his oldest son Alexandre, was an officer in Volunteer Army under admiral Alexander Kolchak fighting against the Red troops while his younger children were under Bolsheviks rule in Moscow.