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 169,170 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Mikhail Skobelev is the 616th most popular military personnel (up from 651st in 2019), the 514th most popular biography from Russia (up from 549th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 616 out of 2,058. Before him are Uzi Narkiss, Kirill Moskalenko, Oda Nobuhide, Huang Gai, Christian de Castries, and Lauri Törni. After him are Alexander von Falkenhausen, Johan Laidoner, Hubert Lyautey, Wolfgang Lüth, Takeichi Nishi, and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 30. Before him are Teófilo Braga, Hermann Schwarz, Camillo Sitte, David Popper, Anton von Werner, and Mariano Rampolla. After him are Hans Richter, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Lydia Koidula, Elizabeth Stride, Antonio Labriola, and Shō Tai. Among people deceased in 1882, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 22. Before him are Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Vasily Perov, Ewelina Hańska, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Sergey Nechayev, and Henri Giffard. After him are Henry Draper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, and Joachim Raff.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 514 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Gumilyov (1886), Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Sergey Brin (1973), Vera Menchik (1906), and Lauri Törni (1919). After him are Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev (1892), Elem Klimov (1933), Nikolay Shvernik (1888), Nikolai Chernykh (1931), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), and Helena of Moscow (1476).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Mikhail Skobelev ranks 47. Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Dmitry Pozharsky (1577), Filipp Golikov (1900), Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Nikolay Gumilyov (1886), and Lauri Törni (1919). After him are Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Werner Ostendorff (1903), Markian Popov (1902), Werner Kempf (1886), Roza Shanina (1924), and Alexander Pokryshkin (1913).

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