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Skalon
Skalon is a Russian-language surname of French origin. Notable persons with the surname include: * Georgi Skalon (1847-1914), a Russian Empire general * Anton Skalon (1767-1812), Russian Empire general * Vasily Skalon (1846 — 1907), Russian writer, journalist, and political activist * Vasily N. Skalon Vasily Nikolaevich Skalon or V.N. Skalon асилий Николаевич Скалон(12 May 1903 - 2 February 1976) was a Russian ornithologist, game biologist, conservationist, and explorer who helped in the early efforts to save Lake Baikal a ... (1903 - 1976), Russian ornithologist, zoologist and conservationist {{surname Russian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Skalon
Vasily Yurievich Skalon (russian: Васи́лий Ю́рьевич Скало́н, 7 February 1846 — 19 April 1907) was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist, editor and later in life, political activist. A major authority on the history and the current problems of Russian zemstvo, Skalon published a set of influential essays on the matter, mostly in ''Russkaya Letopis'', ''Russkiye Vedomosti'' and ''Vestnik Evropy''. His series of articles for Alyabyev's ''Gramotei'' magazine came out as a book in 1872 only to be banned and later destroyed by the special order of the Ministry of Finance. A compilation ''Questions of Zemstvo. Sketches and Reviews'' came out as a separate edition in 1882. Skalon edited the magazines ''Zemstvo'' (1880—1882, with Alexander Koshelev) and, in 1886–1888, ''The Works of the Free Economic Society'' (Труды вольного экономического общества). In early 1900s he moved into politics and became a member of first the Unio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Skalon
Anton Antonovich Skalon (Russian - Антон Антонович Скалон; 6 September 1767, in Biysk fortress – 1812) was a Russian commander during the Napoleonic Wars, rising to the rank of major general in the Imperial Russian Army. Early life and ancestry Anton was born as the son of Georg Anton de Skalon (1720-1777), Lieutenant general in the Russian Imperial Army and his first wife, Karoline von Oettingen. He was a descendant of the French Huguenot George de Skalon, whose sons Stepan and Daniel had moved to Russia in 1710. Career and death He and his regiment of dragoons, combined with a detachment of cossacks, were in the Rachenskoe suburb. On 5 August 1812, aiming to prevent the French attack, Skalon attacked quickly, but was killed on the spot in the Battle of Smolensk, which pushed his force into retreat. His body fell into enemy hands and at Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgi Skalon
Georg Karl de Scallon ( pl, Gieorgij Skałon, russian: Гео́ргий Анто́нович Скало́н, tr. ; 24 October 1847 – 1 February 1914) was a Russian general of Huguenot origin, Governor-general of Warsaw and the commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Military District from 1905 to 1914. In 1903 he became the general-aide of the court of the Tsar Nicholas II. In 1905 was promoted to a general of cavalry as well as the general-governor of Warsaw. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 he introduced a martial law (on 10 November) and gave orders that led to brutal dispersion of crowds protesting in several Polish cities, with many fatalities among the civilian demonstrators. For that, the Polish Socialist Party decided to assassinate him. On 18 August 1906 Organizacja Bojowa PPS tried to kill him with two bombs thrown at his carriage (by Wanda Krahelska), but he survived. In 1882 Scallon married Baroness Marie von Korff. She was daughter of the Colonel of the Imperial Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily N
Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy (Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to ''Basil''. It may refer to: *Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425 *Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince from 1425–1462 *Vasili III of Russia Tsar from 1505–1533 *Vasili IV of Russia Tsar from 1606–1610 *Basil Fool for Christ (1469–1557), also known as Saint Basil, or Vasily Blazhenny *Vasily Alekseyev (1942–2011), Soviet weightlifter *Vasily Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Naval officer in the Cuban Missile Crisis *Vasily Boldyrev (1875–1933), Russian general *Vasily Chapayev (1887–1919), Russian Army commander *Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982), Soviet marschal *Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1949), Russian weapons designer and Major General *Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), Stalin's son *Vasili Golovachov (born 1948), Russian science fiction author *Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), Soviet writer and journalist *Vasily Ignatenko (1961–1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
