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Leonid Sobolev

1844 - 1913

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Leonid Nikolayevich Sobolev (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Соболев) (9 June 1844 – 13 October 1913) was an Imperial Russian Army general and politician. A veteran of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, General Sobolev was the main proponent of the strand of Russian foreign and military policy that saw for the Russians a duty to expel the Ottoman Empire from Europe and to take the Bosphorus for Russia in order to ensure full access to the Mediterranean Sea. Recognising that the United Kingdom maintained a policy of preventing this Sobolev advocated mobilising forces near Afghanistan and British India in order to distract British attention from the Ottomans and give a Russia a free hand in that region. Sobolev was one of two young Russian generals appointed to the Bulgarian cabinet in April 1882 by Alexander. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Sobolev is the 14,864th most popular politician (down from 14,139th in 2019), the 1,803rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,740th in 2019) and the 403rd most popular Russian Politician.

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Among politicians, Leonid Sobolev ranks 14,864 out of 19,576. Before him are Zigmantas Balčytis, Tafari Benti, Paul de Smet de Naeyer, Kadashman-Turgu, Joseph Iléo, and Ferit Melen. After him are Dmitry Tolstoy, Ernest Lluch, Bobby Jones, William H. Crawford, Ahmad al-Ghashmi, and José Antonio Remón Cantera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Leonid Sobolev ranks 97. Before him are John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Dankmar Adler, Marie Hankel, Marie Spartali Stillman, Vassily Maximov, and Arthur Gardiner Butler. After him are Verney Lovett Cameron, Ludwig von Falkenhausen, Duke Alexander of Oldenburg, Ahmet Mithat, Edmonia Lewis, and Simon Gregorčič. Among people deceased in 1913, Leonid Sobolev ranks 82. Before him are Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, Adolf Lang, Nazım Pasha, Angelo de Gubernatis, Robert Collett, and Paul de Smet de Naeyer. After him are Gregorio María Aguirre y García, Miroslav Kraljević, George Finnegan, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Elena Guro, and John Milne.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Sobolev ranks 1,803 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Geydar Dzhemal (1947), Pavel Kolchin (1930), Svetlana Kuznetsova (1985), Irina Alfyorova (1951), and Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov (1900). After him are Dmitry Tolstoy (1823), Mark Dvoretsky (1947), Sigizmund Levanevsky (1902), Stanislav Rostotsky (1922), Pelageya Shajn (1894), and Nikolai Ottovich von Essen (1860).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Leonid Sobolev ranks 403. Before him are Gennady Burbulis (1945), Vladimir Yermoshin (1942), Boris Ponomarev (1905), Ivan Babushkin (1873), Mukhu Aliyev (1940), and Tamara Rylova (1931). After him are Dmitry Tolstoy (1823), Nikolai Ottovich von Essen (1860), Mikhail Solomentsev (1913), Sergey Melikov (1965), Gennady Voronov (1910), and Ivan Osterman (1725).

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