Alexander Drenteln
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| Native name | Александр Романович Дрентельн |
| Born | 1820 |
| Died | 1888 |
| Allegiance | Russian |
| Rank | General |
| Commands | Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Chancellery |
| Awards | Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov) |
Alexander Romanovich Drenteln (Russian: Александр Романович Дрентельн) (1820-1888) was a Russian general.[1]
He held the rank of General of the Infantry, and held the positions of:
- Adjutant General of the H. I. M. Retinue,
- Chief of Gendarmes,
- the last Executive Head of the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Chancellery (1878-1880),
- Commander of the Odessa Military District (1880-1881).
On March 25, 1879, he was the target of a failed assassination attempt by Russian nihilists.[2]
Awards
[edit]- Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov), 1st class, 1863
- Order of Saint Anna, 1st class, 1868
References
[edit]- ^ Fuhrmann, Joseph T. (2013). Rasputin: The Untold Story (PDF). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. xxi. ISBN 978-1-118-22693-3.
- ^ Bosch Alessio, Constanza; Gaido, Daniel (2015). "Vera Zasulich's Critique of Neo-Populism Party Organisation and Individual Terrorism in the Russian Revolutionary Movement, (1878-1902)" (PDF). Historical Materialism. 23: 93–125.
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- 1820 births
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- Military personnel from Kyiv
- Chiefs of the Special Corps of Gendarmes
- Russian people of the January Uprising
- Imperial Russian Army generals
- Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)
- Governors-general of Kiev
- Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 1st class
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class
- Russian untitled nobility