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"October Revolution Alexeyev met in Moscow, where he engaged in preparatory work to establish a" frame of the new army - the so-called "Alexis organization which has as" an organized military force ... could withstand the impending anarchy and the German-Bolshevik invasion. Immediately after the news of the coup in Petrograd went to Novocherkassk, where on Nov. 2, 1917 issued an appeal to the officers, urging them to "save the motherland.

At this time, Don existed under martial law, imposed on Oct. 26, 1917 Ataman of the Don Army, General AM Kaledin in connection with reports of an armed uprising in Petrograd. Army Government took over full state power in the area, eliminating all councils in the cities of the Don region.
In Novocherkassk Alexeyev started to implement the formation of volunteer militia. Since early December, this activity was connected arrived at the Don General LG Kornilov. "Alekseevskaya organization" later became the nucleus of the Volunteer Army.

General Alekseev took part in the First and Second Kuban Campaign Volunteer Army, which took over the civil and financial management, external affairs and later the post of Supreme Leader of the Volunteer Army (1917-1919 years).

Undertook the organization of military-political structures, not only the Volunteer Army, but of all the anti-Bolshevik resistance in the European part of Russia (especially in the organization of the anti-Soviet underground in large cities). Appeared as a need to restore the monarchy.

General Alekseev bitterly regretted his betrayal of Tsar Nicholas II, as written in his notes.

Died Oct. 8, 1918 from pneumonia and was buried in the military cathedral of the Kuban Cossack in Ekaterinodar. During the retreat of white troops in early 1920, his ashes at the insistence of the widow was taken to Serbia and reburied in Belgrade ".