Alexander Nikolajewitsch Möller-Sakomelski

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Alexander Möller-Sakomelski (1904)

Alexander Nikolayevich Möller-Sakomelski ( Russian Александр Николаевич Меллер-Закомельский ; born November 1 . Jul / 13 November 1844 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 15. April 1928 in Nice ) was a general of the Imperial Russian Army .

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Alexander Möller-Sakomelski was born in 1844 as the son of General of the Infantry Nikolai Iwanowitsch Möller-Sakomelski (1813-1887). Like his father, he embarked on a military career in the Russian army. He finished his training in 1862 at the St. Petersburg Nikolaevsk Cavalry School. During the January uprising , he was used against Polish insurgents from 1863 to 1864. In 1863 he was promoted to lieutenant. In 1869 he was promoted to major and transferred to Turkestan .

During the Russian Revolution of 1905 Möller-Sakomelski led the suppression of the uprising of sailors of the Black Sea Fleet under Pyotr Schmidt in Sevastopol in November 1905 .

Together with General Paul von Rennenkampff , he then fought other insurgents in Siberia. On his punitive expeditions he arrested and executed, among others, the revolutionary Ivan Babushkin . In December 1906 Möller-Sakomelski was promoted to general.

In 1917 he was released from military service and emigrated to France in 1918, where he lived until his death on April 15, 1928.

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