Baltic German military personnel in Imperial Russian service
For the nobility, see Totleben.
Graf
Franz Eduard von Tottleben
Eduard Totleben
Other name(s)
Eduard Ivanovich Totleben
Born
(1818-05-20)20 May 1818 Mitau, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
1 July 1884(1884-07-01) (aged 66) Bad Soden, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Allegiance
Russian Empire
Service/branch
Imperial Russian Army
Years of service
1836–1884
Rank
Engineer-General
Battles/wars
Caucasian War Crimean War Russo-Turkish War
Awards
Order of St. Andrew Order of St. George (2nd class) Order of St. Vladimir Order of the Cross of Takovo[1] Order of Prince Danilo I[1]
Coat of arms of the Tottleben (Totleben) family of 1872, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882.[2]
Franz Eduard Graf[a] von[b] Tottleben[c] (Russian: Эдуа́рд Ива́нович Тотле́бен, tr. Eduárd Ivánovich Totlében; 20 May [O.S. 8 May] 1818 – 1 July [O.S. 19 June] 1884), better known as Eduard Totleben in English, was a Baltic German military engineer and Imperial Russian Army general.[3] He was in charge of fortification and sapping work during a number of important Russian military campaigns.
^ abAcović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima [Fame and honor: Decorations among Serbs, Serbs among decorations]. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 621.
^Baltic coat of arms book Klingspor, Carl Arvid. pp. 117
^Chisholm 1911.
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Franz Eduard Graf von Tottleben (Russian: Эдуа́рд Ива́нович Тотле́бен, tr. Eduárd Ivánovich Totlében; 20 May [O.S. 8 May] 1818 – 1 July [O.S. 19 June] 1884)...
Totleben (Bulgarian: Тотлебен), a village in Pleven Province, Bulgaria, named after EduardTotleben This page lists people with the surname Totleben,...
the Crimean War, became of secondary importance. From the plans of EduardTotleben a new fort, Fort Constantine, and four batteries were constructed (1856–1871)...
separated from the Redan by the inner harbour. Lieutenant Colonel EduardTotleben, the Russian chief engineer, had begun work on these sites early in...
Barnaul. In 1856, Dostoevsky sent a letter through Wrangel to General EduardTotleben, apologising for his activity in several utopian circles. As a result...
frontal assaults. General Eduard Ivanovich Totleben arrived to oversee the conduct of the siege as the army chief of staff. Totleben had proven command experience...
commenced in the 1860s under supervision of Crimean war (1853) veteran EduardTotleben.: 170 In 1873, about 66 million rubles were levied by the government...
Pyotr Albedinsky (22 July 1874 – 18 May 1880) General of engineers EduardTotleben (18 May 1880 – 19 June 1884) General of infantry Alexander Nikitin...
preparing to leave for North America, the Russian government sent EduardTotleben to the colonies in May 1874. Meeting with community leaders, he exaggerated...
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merchant marine Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky (1891-1970), illustrator EduardTotleben (1818–1884), Russian military engineer Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter...
city-fortress of Sevastopol, designed by the famous Russian military engineer, EduardTotleben. It was a highly dangerous job that frequently put him under enemy...
and the amount of gunpowder needed for explosions. As early as 1840 EduardTotleben and Schilder-Schuldner had been engaged on questions of organisation...
Andreyevich Schilder and his assistant military engineer Lieutenant-Colonel EduardTotleben arrived at the fortress and commenced the siege by building entrenchments...
Over the next nine months they prepared for the trip. In May 1874, EduardTotleben, representing the czar, visited the Molotschna Mennonite making verbal...
Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), led decisive campaigns of the Caucasian War EduardTotleben, general and military engineer, hero of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)...
after the reverses before Plevna, he, with the cesarevich and Generals EduardTotleben and Dmitry Milyutin, strenuously opposed the suggestion of the Grand...
Russo-Turkish War and Russian presence (he claimed to have met General EduardTotleben during the conflict). Although his parents moved to the Kingdom of...
Aleksander Tydman was a close relative of the Russian general EduardTotleben (1818–1884). Totleben helped Zygmunt to enroll into the best Military Academy...
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