Facts: - death place: katyn , soviet union - width style: person - death date: 1940 - allegiance: poland - birth date: april 26 , 1866 - name: leonard skierski - image: leonard skierski.png - birth place: stopnica - rank: general Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of leonard skierski .
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leonard wilhelm skierski -lrb- april 26 , 1866 -- 1940 -rrb- was a polish military officer and a general of the imperial russian army and then the polish army .a veteran of world war i and the polish-bolshevik war , he was one of fourteen polish generals and one of the oldest military commanders to be murdered by the nkvd in the katyn massacre of 1940 .