List of Famous people with last name Skobelev

Mikhail Skobelev

First Name Mikhail

Last Name Skobelev

Died on June 25, 1882

Born in Russia, Saint Petersburg

Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev was a Russian general famous for his conquest of Central Asia and heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Dressed in 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". During a campaign in Khiva, his Turkmen opponents called him goz ganly or "Bloody Eyes". British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery wrote that Skobelev was the world's "ablest single commander" between 1870 and 1914 and called him a "skilful and inspiring" leader.

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M. Skobelev

First Name M.

Last Name Skobelev

Born on July 17, 1930

Died on November 30, 2005 (aged 75)

Born in Russia

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