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unusual facts about Mikhail Skobelev


Chevalier Guard Regiment

Many famous men served as Chevalier Guards including Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Denis Davydov, Mikhail Skobelev, Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Pavlo Skoropadskyi and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.


Archibald Forbes

In this he claimed, among The Soldiers I have known, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Ulysses S. Grant, Sherman, Robert Napier, Mikhail Skobelev, Osman Pasha, Sir Redvers Buller, and Lords Wolseley and Roberts.

Eugen Maximilianovich, Duke of Leuchtenberg

In 1869, he married Daria Konstantinowa Opotschinina, the granddaughter of Mikhail Kutuzov: she was made countess of Beauharnais (died 1870 in childbirth); and in 1878 to Zeneïde Dmitrijewna Skobelew (also known as Zina) (died 1899), sister to the Russian general Mikhail Skobelev.

Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky

He was the son of general Konstantin Esperovich Belosselsky-Belozersky (1843-1920) and Nadezhna Dmitrovna Skoboleva (1847-1820, the sister of general Mikhail Skobelev).

Treaty of Akhal

Hence forces led by Generals Mikhail Skobelev, Ivan Lazarev, and Konstantin Kaufman spearheaded the campaign, with Persia unable to react.


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