Vassili Verestchagin : painter, soldier, traveler : autobiographical sketches (1888)
Vereshchagin, Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich, 1842-1904 · New York : American Art Association · leaf 189
M. D. SKOBELEFF. 175 accept my brother’s horse after all, and though it was a sor- rel it carried him out of the fire as well as his gray could have done. At the battle of Lovisha, Skobeleff for the first time com- manded a division, which numbered 20,000 men. He was chief of the staff to General… … SKOBELEFF. of the forts, which assuredly no other Russion general would have taken. Prince Imeritinski in his report called Skobeleff the hero of the day, as indeed he was.
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