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Mikhail Grigoryevich Chernyayev

Russian general
Also known as: Mikhail Grigoryevich Cherniaev
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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...

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