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Also Known As Burkhard Kristof Minikh
Born May 19, 1683 • Denmark
Died October 27, 1767 (aged 84) • Tartu • Estonia
Role In Russo-Turkish wars
Peter I
Peter I
emperor of Russia
Alexander II
Alexander II
emperor of Russia
Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich, Graf Rimniksky, Knyaz Italiysky, Reichsgraf
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov, Count Rimniksky
Russian military officer
Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov.
Mikhail Kutuzov
Russian military commander
Grigory Potemkin
Grigory Potemkin
Russian statesman
Andrey Ivanovich, Count Osterman
Russian statesman
Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich
Russian military officer
Nikolay Vasilyevich, prince Repnin
Russian statesman
Skobelev, engraving
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev
Russian military officer
Hans Karl von Diebitsch
Russian military officer
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Rumyantsev, engraving, after a portrait by D.G. Levitsky
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Rumyantsev, Count Zadunaysky
Russian military officer
Aleksey Kuropatkin in his library, 1904/05.
Aleksey Kuropatkin
Russian general
Catherine II
Catherine the Great
empress of Russia
Leonty Leontyevich, count von Bennigsen
Russian general
Nicholas I
Nicholas I
tsar of Russia
Alexander I
Alexander I
emperor of Russia
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
alexander nevsky, saint
Saint Alexander Nevsky
prince of Russia
Stenka Razin, detail of an engraving from “A Relation Concerning the Particulars of the Rebellion Lately Raised in Muscovy by Stenka Razin” (London, 1672)
Stenka Razin
Cossack leader
Henri, baron de Jomini
Henri, baron de Jomini
French general and historian