Info For You Lot Abram Petrovich Gannibal, The Slave Who Became A Major-General Of The Russian Army, Armed Services Engineer,Governor Of Reval As Well As Nobleman Of Russian Empire

         The supposed Portrait of  Abram Petrovich Gannibal that has been disputed
         yesteryear Hugh Barnes,author of Gannibal: The Moor of Petersburg

Sold into Turkish slavery, Abram Petrovich Hannibal was brought equally a dark retainer to Czar Peter I, known equally Peter the Great. He became 1 of the regal favorites, a general-in-chief too 1 of the best educated men inward Russia. His great-grandson was Alexander Pushkin, the famous Russian author who later on glorified the deeds of his dark ancestor inward his book, The Negro of Peter the Great.

Hannibal was born on an unknown engagement around 1696 inward the principality of Logon inward acquaint twenty-four hours Cameroon. Abducted yesteryear a competitor tribe, Hannibal was sold to Turkish slave traders who brought him to Constantinople inward 1703. As an eight-year-old man child he came to the courtroom of Peter the Great who adopted him immediately. Being the Czar's godson, Hannibal assumed his name, Petrovich, too became his valet on Peter's diverse military machine campaigns too journeys. When the Czar visited French Republic inward 1716, Hannibal was left behind inward Paris to report technology scientific discipline too mathematics at a military machine school. Two years later, he joined the French regular army too fought inward the nation of war against Spain. In Jan 1723, Hannibal finally returned to Russia.

To Hannibal's misery, his protector Peter the Great died inward 1725, leaving the dark artillery lieutenant inward the dependence of the regal advisor Prince Menshikov, who–due to his dislike for Hannibal–assigned him to Siberia too later on to the Chinese edge where his business was to mensurate the Great Wall.

Hannibal’s fortunes changed inward 1741, when Empress Elisabeth took the throne too Hannibal was allowed to officially furnish from his exile although inward fact he had done then clandestinely inward 1731. Five years after his illegal return, he married his instant married adult woman Christina Regina von Schöberg, the immature adult woman of a Swedish regular army captain, who bore him 11 children. One of his sons named Osip was the grandad of the poet Alexander Pushkin.

Although it had been his want to retire, Empress Elisabeth did non desire to abandon Hannibal too his technology scientific discipline skills. He was made commander of the metropolis of Reval betwixt 1743 too 1751 too yesteryear 1760 had been promoted to the rank of a total general. During his military machine career he oversaw diverse projects such equally the structure of the Ladoga Canal too Russian fortresses. Abram Petrovich Hannibal died on Apr 20, 1781, equally 1 of the leading pioneers of his dry soil too belike the kickoff outstanding engineer inward Russian history.

                   WHERE EXACTLY IN AFRICA DOES ABRAM PETROVICH GANNIBAL
                    COMES FROM?
There is a raging declaration amid historians too academicians close the actual identify inward Africa that Abram Petrovich Gannibal comes from. Wikipaedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Petrovich_Gannibal claims  "he was born inward 1696 inward a hamlet called "Lagon", inward acquaint twenty-four hours Eritrea, located "on the northern side of the Mareb River..." (which serves equally much of the modern edge betwixt Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia too Eritrea). On an 1810 map yesteryear Henry Salt, Logo appears inward Ethiopia (the expanse corresponds to today's Loggo Sarda, which had its ain rulers, too which is inhabited yesteryear Christian Tigrayans too Muslim Saho; others claim it to jibe to nearby Loggo Chewa farther due west inward Eritrea). "As the other sons were brought to their virile somebody parent amongst their hands trussed upwards amongst a rope, he enjoyed liberty of the youngest boy swimming inward his father's fountains" (Pushkin's notes to Eugene Onegin). The question (1996) of Dieudonné Gnammankou suggests he may genuinely require keep been from what is at nowadays the Sultanate of Logone-Birni on the Logone River, inward Cameroon, southward of Lake Chad."
However, inward a recent article entitled " Of African Princes too Russian Poets" inward The New York Times newspaper`s Opinion pages  written yesteryear I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor, Serge Schmemann inward Nov 12, 2010, he confirmed Mr Gnammankou`s finding of Republic of Cameroon equally Abram Gannibal`s master copy home.


The assumed portrait of what Major-General Abram Gannibal mightiness hold off like.

Schmemann writes "In Russia, it is mutual cognition that Pushkin was descended from an African who was raised to high rank yesteryear Czar Peter the Great. Pushkin’s African ancestry was evident inward his appearance, too the poet was proud of the heritage, using Gannibal equally the model for an unfinished novel known inward English linguistic communication equally “The Negro of Peter the Great.”
But it is entirely inward recent years that Gannibal, too Pushkin, require keep move sources of pride for Cameroon. The main argue for that is the question done yesteryear an African historian who pored over Russian, French too African sources to conclude that Gannibal most probable began life equally the boy of a primary inward the ancient sultanate of Logone-Birni. Indeed, it was the findings of the historian, Dieudonné Gnammankou, himself from Benin, that led to the lilliputian celebration inward La Fère......."

He went on to write that " Gannibal’s roots inward Africa, however, long remained vague. Russian biographers decided early that he was Ethiopian, though the entirely known fact was that he himself wrote inward a missive of the alphabet to Empress Elizabeth, Peter the Great’s daughter, that he was from the town of “Lagon.” Vladimir Nabokov, conducting question for his definitive translation of Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin,” was the kickoff to shape serious dubiety on the Ethiopian angle. But it was Mr. Gnammankou who kickoff made a potent illustration inward 1995 that “Lagon” was Logone, the working capital missive of the alphabet of the ancient Kotoko kingdom of Logone-Birni on the southern side of Lake Chad, at nowadays located inward northern Cameroon.
Mr. Gnammankou’s thesis caused something of a stir inward Russia, where Pushkin has the status of a god. Roots inward dark Africa, Mr. Gnammankou suspects, seemed less acceptable than roots inward the ancient Christian kingdom of Ethiopia. Nonetheless, his mass on Gannibal was translated into Russian inward 1999 too was judged the best mass on Pushkin that yr at the Moscow Book Fair. In 2000, a documentary close Gannibal shown on Russian tv included scenes shot inward Logone, equally good equally an interview amongst Mr. Gnammankou.
In Logone-Birni, the regain of a necktie to 1 of the world’s groovy poets was a sensation. Sultan Mahamat may, inward fact, last a distant relative of Gannibal. The sultan claims to last the 47th inward his line, too Mr. Gnammankou believes that Gannibal was most probable the boy of the local ruler. He believes the man child was kidnapped inward 1703 yesteryear a neighboring primary to last given equally tribute to the newly enthroned sultan inward Constantinople. There, the man child was converted to Islam equally Ibrahim, which became Abraham, or Abram, when Czar Peter had him baptized inward the Russian Orthodox faith.
The ceremony at La Fère was hence something of a personal triumph for Gnammankou, who was the main speaker at a subsequent symposium — too whose wife, Joëlle Esso, a professional person singer, entertained the gathering amongst rousing songs she wrote close Gannibal too Pushkin (“Le czar le rappelle en Russie/ Hannibal n’en a pas très envie ...”).
The fact that an African could ascent to high rank inward the Russian too French regal service inward the 18th century figured prominently inward the speeches of the day. For Gannibal, Gnammankou said, Russian Federation became “his dry soil of liberty, which gave him the way of fulfilling his talents.” In return, Russian Federation gained its greatest poet.

                    POET PUSHKIN`S ANCESTRY TO ABRAM GANNIBAL THE AFRICAN
                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                            

Gannibal married twice too had 11 children. His kickoff married adult woman was Evdokia Dioper, a Greek woman. The duo married inward 1731 too had 1 daughter. Unfortunately Dioper despised her husband, whom she was forced to marry. When Gannibal constitute out that she had been unfaithful to him, he had her arrested too thrown into prison, where she spent 11 years living inward terrible conditions. Gannibal began living amongst some other woman, Christina Regina Siöberg (1705–1781), immature adult woman of Mattias Johan Siöberg too married adult woman Christina Elisabeth d'Albedyll, too married her bigamously inward Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia), inward 1736, a yr after the nativity of their kickoff kid too spell he was silent lawfully married to his kickoff wife. His divorce from Dioper did non move in conclusion until 1753, upon which a fine too a penance were imposed on Gannibal, too Dioper was sent to a convent for the balance of her life. Gannibal's instant matrimony was nevertheless deemed lawful after his divorce.

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