Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher Russian: Василий Константинович Блюхер; 1 December 1889 – 9 November 1938 was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. Contents 1Early history 2Civil War 3Far East command 4Soviet Purges and death 5Honours and awards 6References 6.1Works cited 7External links Early history Vasily Blyukher with The First Order of the Red
Prince Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky Russian: Алекса́ндр Беко́вич-Черка́сский, born Devlet-Girei-mırza (Russian: Девлет-Гирей-мурза) (died 1717), was a Russian officer of Circassian origin who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia. Contents 1Background 2Dreaming of Eldorado 3Khivan disaster 4See also 5References 6External links Background A Muslim by birth, and the son of one of Kabarda’s rulers, Alexander converted to Christianity and joined the Russian service, although the dates and
Prince Aleksandr Ivanovich Baryatinsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Баря́тинский, tr. Aleksándr Ivánovič Barjátinskij; 14 May [O.S. 2 May] 1815 – 9 March 1879 ) was a Russian General and Field Marshal (from 1859), Prince, governor of the Caucasus. Life[edit] Baryatinsky entered the school of the ensigns of the Guard in his seventeenth year and, on 8 November 1833, received his commission of cornet in the Life Guards of the future Tsar Alexander II. In 1835, he
Prince Roman (Revaz) Ivanovich Bagration (Russian: Роман (Реваз) Иванович Багратион, Georgian: რომან (რევაზ) ბაგრატიონი Roman (Revaz) Bagrat’ioni) (1778 – 1834) was a Georgian nobleman and a general in the Imperial Russian Army. A scion of the Georgian royal family Bagrationi, he was a brother of Pyotr Bagration, a notable Russian commander during the Napoleonic Wars. Son of Prince Ivan Aleksandrovich Bagration. Career[edit] Born in Kizlyar, Dagestan, Roman Bagration enrolled in
Pyotr Bagration 10 July 1765 – 24 September 1812 was a Russian general and prince of Georgian origin, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars. Bagration was born in Kizlyar or Tbilisi to a family, part of the Bagrationi dynasty. His father was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, into which Bagration also enlisted in 1782. Bagration began his career serving in
Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan Armenian: Հովհաննես Քրիստափորի Բաղրամյան; Russian: Ива́н Христофо́рович Баграмя́н, also known as Hovhannes Khachaturi Baghramyan (Armenian: Հովհաննես Խաչատուրի (alternatively, Քրիստափորի, Kristapori) Բաղրամյան; Russian: Оване́с Хачату́рович Баграмя́н) (2 December 1897 – 21 September 1982), was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union of Armenian origin. During World War II, Bagramyan was the second non-Slavic military officer, after Latvian Max Reyter, to become a commander of a Front. He was among several Armenians in the Soviet
General Mikhail Nikolayevich Annenkov Russian: Михаил Николаевич Анненков; formerly also transcribed Michael Nicolaivitch Annenkoff 1835 in St. Petersburg, Russia – January 21, 1899 (New Style) in St. Petersburg, Russia was a Russian nobleman, author, military officer, and renowned engineer. An important figure in the history of the Russian conquest of Turkestan in the 19th Century, he was Governor-General
Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov Russian: Геннадий Андреевич Зюганов; born 26 June 1944 is a Russian politician, who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party and served as Member of the State Duma since 1993. He is also the Chair of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky Russian: Владимир Вольфович Жириновский, né Eidelstein, Эйдельштейн; born 25 April 1946 is a Russian politician and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. He is fiercely nationalist and has been described as “a showman of Russian politics, blending populist and nationalist rhetoric, anti-Western invective and a brash, confrontational style”. His views have been described in
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин, IPA: 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007 was a Russian and former Soviet politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990, he later stood as a political independent, during which