caption branch death_date death_place birth_place allegiance birth_date image article_title name
mikhail skobelev imperial russian army 07 july 1882 moscow , russian empire saint petersburg , russian empire russian empire 29 september 1843 m skobelev.jpg mikhail skobelev
 mikhail dmitrievich skobelev ru Михаи́л Дми́триевич Ско́белев
mikhail skobelev

mikhail dmitrievich skobelev -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- -- -rrb- was a russian general famous for his conquest of central asia and heroism during the russo-turkish war of 1877 -- 1878 .
dressed in white uniform and mounted on a white horse , and always in the thickest of the fray , he was known and adored by his soldiers as the `` white general '' -lrb- and by the turks as the `` white pasha '' -rrb- .
during a campaign in khiva , his turkmen opponents called him `` goz zanli '' or `` bloody eyes '' .
british field marshal bernard montgomery wrote that skobelev was the world 's `` ablest single commander '' between 1870 and 1914 and called him a `` skilful and inspiring '' leader .
