MILITARY PERSONNEL

Alexander Samsonov

1859 - 1914

Alexander Samsonov

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Samsonov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Самсо́нов, tr. Aleksándr Vasíl’evič Samsónov; 14 November [O.S. 2 November] 1859 – 30 August [O.S. 17 August] 1914) was a career officer in the cavalry of the Imperial Russian Army and a general during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. He was the commander of the Russian Second Army which was surrounded and defeated by the German Eighth Army in the Battle of Tannenberg, one of the early battles of World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Samsonov has received more than 251,026 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Alexander Samsonov is the 380th most popular military personnel (up from 419th in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 131st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

Alexander Samsonov was a Russian general who led the Second Siberian Army Corps to the capture of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.

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Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
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Effective Languages (L*)
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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alexander Samsonov ranks 380 out of 1,466. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Omar Pasha, Maximilian von Spee, Yonatan Netanyahu, Erich Kempka, and Osman Nuri Pasha. After him are Hermann Balck, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Reinhard Scheer, Georg von Frundsberg, and Zhang He.

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Jean-Baptiste Bessières
1768 - 1813
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 374
Omar Pasha
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HPI: 70.40
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HPI: 70.37
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Yonatan Netanyahu
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HPI: 70.37
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Erich Kempka
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HPI: 70.34
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HPI: 70.33
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Alexander Samsonov
1859 - 1914
HPI: 70.32
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HPI: 70.29
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HPI: 70.28
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HPI: 70.22
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HPI: 70.22
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Alexander Samsonov ranks 24. Before him are Verner von Heidenstam, Jerome K. Jerome, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Pierre Janet, Hugo Junkers, and Bertha Pappenheim. After him are Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Ferrer, Anna Ancher, Francesc Macià, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. Among people deceased in 1914, Alexander Samsonov ranks 23. Before him are Ismail Gaspirali, Eduard Suess, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Alphonse Bertillon, Joseph Swan, and Maximilian von Spee. After him are Alfred Thayer Mahan, Charles Péguy, Alain-Fournier, Theodor Kittelsen, Joseph Chamberlain, and John Tenniel.

Others Born in 1859

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Verner von Heidenstam
1859 - 1940
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 18
Jerome K. Jerome
1859 - 1927
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 19
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
1859 - 1925
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 20
Pierre Janet
1859 - 1947
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 21
Hugo Junkers
1859 - 1935
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 22
Bertha Pappenheim
1859 - 1936
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 23
Alexander Samsonov
1859 - 1914
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 24
Venustiano Carranza
1859 - 1920
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 25
Francisco Ferrer
1859 - 1909
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 26
Anna Ancher
1859 - 1935
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 27
Francesc Macià
1859 - 1933
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 28
Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant
1859 - 1869
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 29
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
1859 - 1935
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 30