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Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov

1787 - 1869

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Prince Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (Russian: Князь Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ме́ншиков; 26 August 1787 – 2 May 1869) was a Russian nobleman, military commander and statesman. He was made adjutant general in 1817 and admiral in 1833. A great-grandson of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Duke of Ingria, and a cognatic descendant of the Princely House of Golitsyn (another of his great-grandfathers was Prince Mikhail Golitsyn, the military governor of Åbo (Turku) during the Russian occupation in the Great Northern War). Menshikov entered the Russian service as attaché to the embassy at Vienna in 1809. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov is the 599th most popular military personnel (down from 516th in 2019), the 498th most popular biography from Russia (down from 451st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov ranks 599 out of 2,058. Before him are George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, Günther Blumentritt, Herta Bothe, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, David Elazar, and Yu Jin. After him are Artaphernes, Aleksei Antonov, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Harpagus, Jarosław Dąbrowski, and Oda Nobuhide.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov ranks 15. Before him are Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Edmund Kean, and Otto von Kotzebue. After him are Nils Gabriel Sefström, Ludwig Uhland, Christian Ludwig Brehm, James Weddell, Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse. Among people deceased in 1869, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov ranks 13. Before him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Hijikata Toshizō, Thomas Graham, and Antoine-Henri Jomini. After him are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Alexandrine Tinné, and Carl Gustav Carus.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov ranks 498 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Prince Albert of Prussia (1809), Naina Yeltsina (1932), Serge Koussevitzky (1874), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), and Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869). After him are Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Sheikh Mansur (1750), Otto Braun (1872), Sergey Brin (1973), Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806), and Hans Pfitzner (1869).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov ranks 43. Before him are Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737), Roza Shanina (1924), Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), and Filipp Golikov (1900). After him are Alexander Pokryshkin (1913), Lauri Törni (1919), Werner Kempf (1886), Markian Popov (1902), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), and Sergey Akhromeyev (1923).

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