π Abram Petrovich Gannibal
π Biography
π Russia
π Russia/technology and engineering in Russia
π Russia/demographics and ethnography of Russia
π African diaspora
π Russia/Russian, Soviet, and CIS military history
π Russia/history of Russia
Abram Petrovich Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, or Abram Hannibal or Abram Petrov (Russian: ΠΠ±ΡΠ°ΜΠΌ ΠΠ΅ΡΡΠΎΜΠ²ΠΈΡ ΠΠ°Π½Π½ΠΈΠ±Π°ΜΠ»; c. 1696 β 14 May 1781), was a Russian military engineer, major-general, and nobleman of African origin. Kidnapped as a child, Gannibal was taken to Russia and presented as a gift to Peter the Great, where he was freed, adopted and raised in the Emperor's court household as his godson.
Gannibal eventually rose to become a prominent member of the imperial court in the reign of Peter's daughter Elizabeth. He had 11 children, most of whom became members of the Russian nobility; he was a great-grandfather of the author and poet Alexander Pushkin.
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