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Alexander Samsonov

1859 - 1914

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Aleksandr Vasilyevich Samsonov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Самсо́нов, tr. Aleksándr Vasíl’evič Samsónov; 14 November [O.S. 2 November] 1859 – 30 August [O.S. 17 August] 1914) was a career officer in the cavalry of the Imperial Russian Army and a general during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. He was the commander of the Russian Second Army which was surrounded and defeated by the German Eighth Army in the Battle of Tannenberg, one of the early battles of World War I. Ashamed by his loss of the Army, Samsonov committed suicide while retreating from the battlefield. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Samsonov is the 387th most popular military personnel (up from 398th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 129th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

Alexander Samsonov was a Russian general who led the Second Siberian Army Corps to the capture of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alexander Samsonov ranks 387 out of 2,058. Before him are Maximilian von Spee, Omar Pasha, Henri Giraud, Iwane Matsui, Andrei Grechko, and Prokop the Great. After him are Henry Maitland Wilson, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Erich Priebke, Jean-Andoche Junot, Laskarina Bouboulina, and Carl Spaatz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Alexander Samsonov ranks 22. Before him are Alexandre Millerand, Jean Jaurès, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Jerome K. Jerome, Pierre Janet, and Hugo Junkers. After him are Anna Ancher, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Ferrer, Bertha Pappenheim, and Peter Altenberg. Among people deceased in 1914, Alexander Samsonov ranks 20. Before him are August Weismann, August Macke, Ismail Gaspirali, Eduard Suess, Louis Couturat, and Maximilian von Spee. After him are Alphonse Bertillon, Ambrose Bierce, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Alain-Fournier, Charles Péguy, and John Tenniel.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Samsonov ranks 124 out of 1,365. Before him are Stepan Makarov (1848), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Emil Gilels (1916), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), and Alexander Dovzhenko (1894). After him are Georgy Gapon (1870), Nachman of Breslov (1772), Vladimir Arnold (1937), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Olga Kurylenko (1979), and Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Alexander Samsonov ranks 9. Before him are Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), John Demjanjuk (1920), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Roman Shukhevych (1907), and Ivan Paskevich (1782). After him are Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), Alfred Redl (1864), Mikhail Kirponos (1892), Yevhen Konovalets (1891), and Kirill Moskalenko (1902).

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