Ivan Gannibal
Deceased Person
1735 – 1801
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Who was Ivan Gannibal?
Ivan Abramovich Gannibal was a Russian military leader and eminent Russian of African and Russian descent. He was the son of military commander and politician Abram Petrovich Gannibal, as well as the great-uncle of Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin.
Gannibal led a detachment of the Imperial Black Sea Fleet, which besieged and captured the Turkish fortress of Navarin during the Russo-Turkish War, and took part in the founding of the city of Kherson. Gannibal's ultimate military rank was Général en Chef.
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