Alexander Drenteln

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1888 deaths

Recipients of the Order of St. Andrew

Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class

Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia)

1820 births

Russian untitled nobility

Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 1st class

Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)

People from Kievsky Uyezd

Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class

Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class

Recipients of the Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky

Governors-general of Kiev

Generals of the infantry (Russian Empire)

Russian people of the January Uprising

Military personnel from Kyiv

Chiefs of the Special Corps of Gendarmes

Burials at Askold's Grave

Alexander Romanovich Drenteln () (1820–1888) was a Russian general.

He held the rank of General of the Infantry, and held the positions of:

Adjutant General of the H. I. M. Retinue,
Chief of Gendarmes,
the last Executive Head of the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Chancellery (1878–1880),
Commander of the Odessa Military District (1880–1881).

On March 25, 1879, he was the target of a failed assassination attempt by Russian nihilists.

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