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.
Mikhail Gorbachev | Mikhail Baryshnikov | Mikhail Bulgakov | Mikhail Lermontov | Mikhail Vrubel | Mikhail Bakunin | Mikhail Botvinnik | Mikhail Skobelev | Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov | Mikhail Glinka | Mikhail Chigorin | Mikhail Tal | Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov | Mikhail Turovsky | Mikhail Trepashkin | Mikhail Sholokhov | Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Mikhail Kaneev | Mikhail Boyarsky | Mikhail Bakhtin | Mikhail Vorontsov | Mikhail Tukhachevsky | Mikhail Pletnev | Mikhail Nesterov | Mikhail Natarevich | Mikhail Kasyanov's Cabinet | Mikhail Tomsky | Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin | Mikhail Olegovich Yefremov | Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov |
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.
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.
He was the son of general Konstantin Esperovich Belosselsky-Belozersky (1843-1920) and Nadezhna Dmitrovna Skoboleva (1847-1820, the sister of general Mikhail Skobelev).
Hence forces led by Generals Mikhail Skobelev, Ivan Lazarev, and Konstantin Kaufman spearheaded the campaign, with Persia unable to react.