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Mikhail Grigoryevich Chernyayev

Russian general
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Chernyayev also spelled:
Cherniaev
Born:
Oct. 22 [Nov. 3, New Style], 1828, Bendery, Bessarabia, Russian Empire [now Bendery, Moldova]
Died:
Aug. 4 [Aug. 16], 1898, Tubyshki, Belorussia [Belarus] (aged 69)

Mikhail Grigoryevich Chernyayev (born Oct. 22 [Nov. 3, New Style], 1828, Bendery, Bessarabia, Russian Empire [now Bendery, Moldova]—died Aug. 4 [Aug. 16], 1898, Tubyshki, Belorussia [Belarus]) was a Pan-Slavist and Russian general noted for expanding the Russian Empire into Central Asia and for his leadership of the Serbs against the Turks in 1876. Chernyayev attended the Military Academy of the General Staff and then served as a junior officer in the Crimean War (1853–56). In 1864 he was sent on a minor mission to Central Asia, where he captured Aulie Ata and Chimken and then exceeded his instructions by conquering ...(100 of 286 words)

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