COMMANDER // 1843–1882
Mikhail Skobelev
generalRussian Empire1 battle1 war
Lifespan
1843 – 1882
Active service 1877 — 1 battle across 1 war; first command at age 34.
Profile
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev was a Russian general became famous for his conquest of Central Asia and for his heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Dressed in a 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", and by the Turks as the "White Pasha". During a campaign in Khiva, his Turkmen opponents called him goz ganly or "Bloody Eyes".
Battles (1)
1877
Siege of PlevnaRomanian War of Independence · Russian Empire