1. Mikhail Skobelev was born in Saint Petersburg on 29 September 1843, at the Petropavlovskaya prison, where his grandfather was the prison chief.
10 Facts About Mikhail Skobelev
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Mikhail Skobelev's mother was Russian philanthropist Olga Skobeleva, and his father was Russian general Dmitry Ivanovich Skobelev.
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Mikhail Skobelev was promoted to major-general, decorated with the Order of St George, and appointed the first governor of the Ferghana Oblast.
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Mikhail Skobelev commanded the Caucasian Cossack Brigade in the attack of the Green Hills at the second battle of Pleven.
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An infantry division under Mikhail Skobelev's command assailed the Grivitsa redoubt to the north.
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Mikhail Skobelev returned to Turkestan after the war, and in 1880 and 1881 further distinguished himself by retrieving the disasters inflicted by the Tekke Turkomans: following the Siege of Geoktepe, it was stormed, the general captured the fort.
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Mikhail Skobelev was removed from his command because of the massacre.
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Mikhail Skobelev was advancing on Ashkhabad and Kalat i-Nadiri when he was disavowed and recalled to Moscow.
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Mikhail Skobelev has been credited as one of the earliest promoters of the concept "Russia for Russians".
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Mikhail Skobelev was staying at the Hotel Dusseaux in Moscow on 7 July 1882 when, by official account, he died suddenly of a heart attack.