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Olga Skobeleva

1823–1880

Born
4 Apr 1823
Country of birth
Russian Empire, today Russia
Died
30 Jul 1880, Plovdiv
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  • Birth4 Apr 1823Probable1 source
  • Death30 Jul 1880, PlovdivProbable1 source
  • UnionDmitry SkobelevConfirmed1 source

A life in time

  1. Born

    Birth

  2. Child born: Zinaida Skobeleva

    Birth, Saint Petersburg

  3. Died · Plovdiv

    Death, Plovdiv

What was it like?

The world around 1823: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

Olga was born around the same time as Jenny Lind, César Franck, and Afanasy Fet.

Known for

Olga Nikolayevna Skobeleva was a Russian philanthropist and hospital organizer. Olga and her family were strongly tied to the Imperial Russian Army; her husband was Russian general Dmitry Ivanovich Skobelev, while Olga was the mother of Russian general Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev and the head of the Bulgarian Red Cross. She was killed in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, when her carriage was ambushed by bandits in 1880.

Born around the same time

  • Jenny Lind

    1820 · Swedish opera singer (1820–1887)

  • César Franck

    1822 · Belgian-French composer and organist (1822–1890)

  • Afanasy Fet

    1820 · Russian poet (1820-1892)

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    1821 · Russian novelist (1821–1881)

  • Louis Pasteur

    1822 · French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

  • Friedrich Engels

    1820 · German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)

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