Mikhail Chernyayev

Mikhail Grigoryevich Tschernjajew (* 1828, † August 17, 1898 on his estate in the government of Mogilev Oblast ) was a Russian general.

He appeared only in the imperial army, fought in the Crimea and the Caucasus, then was in the diplomatic service used and Russian Consul General in Belgrade, initiated in 1864 as the General 's campaign to Tashkent, which he conquered, but received for insubordination in his resignation and left established himself as a notary in Moscow, but was soon hired back in the army in 1875 and took his leave. He founded thereon in Saint Petersburg, the newspaper Russky Mir.

He was one of the most active leaders of the Pan-Slav party and took over in July 1876, the command of the Serbian army in the Serbian- Ottoman war, but was defeated at October 29 Aleksinac. 1877 not used in the Russo- Ottoman war, he continued the agitation for the Slavic Wohlthätigkeitskomitee at home and abroad. In Prague, he was expelled from the Austrians and then lived in France. Beginning of 1879, he tried to organize an uprising of the Bulgarians in Rumelia, but was arrested in March and deported to Russia.

Alexander III. appointed him in 1882 to the Governor-General of Tashkent, but put him in the February 1884 because of arbitrariness again. As he ruthlessly fought the measures of the government in Asia and notably the Trans-Caspian railway in the newspapers, he was horrified in 1886 and his place as a member of the War Council.

Mikhail Grigorijewitsch Tschernjajew died on August 17, 1898 at his country estate in the government of Mogilev.