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MIKHAIL GREGORJOVICH See also:TCHERNAIEV (1828—1898)
, See also:Russian See also:general, a member of a See also:noble See also:family, was See also:born on the 24th of See also:October 1828
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Educated at the See also:Nicholas See also:Staff See also:College, he entered the See also:army in 1847, and distinguished himself in the See also:Crimean See also:war and in the See also:Caucasus
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After serving as divisional See also:chief of the staff in See also:Poland, he went to See also:Orenburg in 1858 as assistant to the See also:commander of the See also:line of the Syr-Darya, and the following See also:year commanded an expedition to support the See also:Kirghiz tribes on the See also:borders of the See also:Sea of See also:Aral against the Khivans
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He did See also:duty on the staff of the army of the Caucasus for a See also:time, and returned to Orenburg as chief of the staff
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In 1864, having reached the See also:rank of See also:major-general, he made his famous See also: In 1879 he organized a Bulgarian rising, but was arrested at See also:Adrianople and sent back to See also:Russia . He succeeded See also:Kaufmann' (q.v.) as See also:governor of Turkestan in 1882, but his aggressive policy led to his recall two years later, when he was appointed a member of the See also:council of war at St See also:Peters-See also:burg . In 1886 his opposition to the Central Asian Military railway caused him to lose his seat in the council . He died on the 16th of See also:August 1898, at his See also:country seat in the See also:province of See also:Mogilev . |
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