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Mikhail Skobelev

1843 - 1882

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Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev (Russian: Михаил Дмитриевич Скобелев; 29 September 1843 – 7 July 1882), a Russian general, became famous for his conquest of Central Asia and for his heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Dressed in a white uniform and mounted on a white horse, and always in the thickest of the fray, he was known and adored by his soldiers as the "White General" (and by the Turks as the "White Pasha"). During a campaign in Khiva, his Turkmen opponents called him goz ganly or "Bloody Eyes". British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery assessed Skobelev as the world's "ablest single commander" between 1870 and 1914 and wrote of his "skilful and inspiring" leadership. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Skobelev is the 696th most popular military personnel (down from 616th in 2019), the 562nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 514th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 696 out of 2,058. Before him are Hubert Lyautey, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Mark W. Clark, Shibata Katsuie, Zhou Tai, and Georg Stumme. After him are Wilhelm Adam, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Tatya Tope, Walter Stennes, and Nicolaus von Below.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 33. Before him are Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Hans Richter, Anton von Werner, Lydia Koidula, Camillo Sitte, and Antonio Labriola. After him are David Popper, Frederic W. H. Myers, Adelina Patti, Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Robert Todd Lincoln, and Odoardo Beccari. Among people deceased in 1882, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 30. Before him are Richard Henry Dana Jr., Mary Todd Lincoln, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Ewelina Hańska, Jørgen Moe, and Henry Draper. After him are Henri Giffard, Joachim Raff, Anthony Trollope, Henry Cole, János Arany, and Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 562 out of 3,761. Before him are Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Markian Popov (1902), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Patriarch Filaret of Moscow (1553), Nikolai Chernykh (1931), and Viktor Chernov (1873). After him are Yakov Sinai (1935), Nikolai Ge (1831), Anund Gårdske (1004), Viktor Abakumov (1908), Sergey Akhromeyev (1923), and Alexander von Middendorff (1815).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 48. Before him are Filipp Golikov (1900), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Alexander Pokryshkin (1913), Lauri Törni (1919), Werner Kempf (1886), and Markian Popov (1902). After him are Sergey Akhromeyev (1923), Werner Ostendorff (1903), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Dietrich von Saucken (1892), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), and Boris Sheremetev (1652).

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