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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Skobelev has received more than 155,653 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Mikhail Skobelev is the 651st most popular military personnel (up from 688th in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from Russia (up from 586th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 651 out of 1,468. Before him are Wolfgang Lüth, Wilhelm Schepmann, Hubert Lyautey, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Heinz Reinefarth, and Peucestas. After him are Oda Nobuhide, Otozō Yamada, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Sergey Biryuzov, Sadao Araki, and Henri Gatien Bertrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 31. Before him are Hans Richter, Mariano Rampolla, Elizabeth Stride, Henryk Siemiradzki, Teófilo Braga, and Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal. After him are Anton von Werner, David Popper, Robert Todd Lincoln, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Antonio Labriola, and Lydia Koidula. Among people deceased in 1882, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 25. Before him are Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henri Giffard, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play. After him are Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hill Green, Henry Draper, Joachim Raff, and Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 550 out of 3,262. Before him are Ivan Ilyin (1883), Nicolas de Staël (1914), Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896), Tode Mongke (1282), and Yuri Averbakh (1922). After him are Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Grigory Sokolov (1950), Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Nikolai Chernykh (1931), and Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 51. Before him are Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Sergey Akhromeyev (1923), Nikolay Gumilyov (1886), Werner Kempf (1886), Sergei Skripal (1951), and Ivan Panfilov (1893). After him are Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), Markian Popov (1902), Vasily Petrov (1917), Walter Weiß (1890), and Iosif Gurko (1828).

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