White general. Mikhail Skobelev is a giant rich spirit. Krasnitsky A.I.

This book was written by Russian writer and journalist Alexander Ivanovich Krasnitsky (1866-1917). It was first published in Moscow in 1904 with the subtitle of the “Tale-Khronika from the life of General M. D. Skobelev.”

Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev was born on September 17 according to the old style of 1843 in the Peter and Paul Fortress, whose commandant was the commandant His grandfather, and in the Peter and Paul Cathedral was baptized. He became famous for the power of the spirit and heroism in the Turkestan campaigns of the Russian army: in the Khiva campaign (1873), in the Kokand campaign (1875-1876)-and during the liberation of Bulgaria (1877-1878). Russian and Turkish soldiers, who have repeatedly seen him on the battlefield in a white uniform, called him a "white general." The Bulgarian people considered Skobelev their national hero. M. D. Skobelev died on July 25, 1883, was buried in his tribal estate, the village of Spasskoye-Zaborovsky Ryazhsky district of the Ryazan province (currently-the village of Zaborovo, the Alexander Nevsky district of the Ryazan region), next to his parents, where still during his lifetime, anticipating. Clead, prepared a place. Currently, the remains of the general and his parents are transferred to the restored Spassky Temple of the same village.