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.
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy | Aleksey Semyonovich Vishnyakov | Aleksey Kuropatkin | Aleksey Khomyakov | Aleksey Burago | Aleksey Yakimenko | Aleksey Trubetskoy | Aleksey Remizov | Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov | Aleksey Mikhaylovich Mikhalyov | Aleksey Kudryavtsev | Aleksey Krupnyakov | Aleksey Akatyev |
Among the figures in Russian history who lived on Sadovaya are Dmitry Milyutin, Aleksey Kuropatkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Demyan Bedny, Ivan Krylov, Mikhail Petrashevsky, Yuri Lisyansky, Apollon Maykov, Yevgeny Tarle, and Sergei Prokofiev.