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Gottlob Heinrich Curt von Tottleben

Gottlob Heinrich Curt von Tottleben


Gottlob Curt Heinrich Graf von Tottleben, Herr auf Tottleben, Zeippau und Hansdorf im Saganschen (also Tottleben, Todtleben, or Todleben; Russian: Готлиб-Генрих Тотлебен; 21 December 1715 – 20 March 1773) was a Saxon-born Russian general known for his adventurism and contradictory military career during the Seven Years' War and, then, the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) as a commander of the first Russian expeditionary force in Kartli-Kakheti. His name refers to his domains at Tottleben in Thuringia, Zeippau, and Hansdorf of Sagan in Lower Silesia.