1882 shocked all the academy of the general staff silver ribbon with words to the hero mikhail dmitritch, skobelev commander suvorov. alexander kuprin describes the events in this way how moscow saw him off all moscow is impossible not to tell or describe all of moscow in the morning on their feet in the houses remained only three-year-old children and unnecessary old people who were not singers, not a death knell was heard with sobs. everyone was crying, officers, soldiers, old men and children , students, young ladies, peasants, butchers, pedlars, cabbies, servants and gentlemen, they were burying the white general. moscow after all, moscow in 1912, a monument was erected to general skobelev, a swift equestrian figure called for the tsar and the motherland , with a large crowd of people in moscow, on tverskaya square, exactly at the place where the founder is now moscow yuri dolgoruky already in april 1918, the bolsheviks, the statue was demolished and dismantled in our century. in 2014, opposite the academy of general staffs , a new monument to skobelev was erected for the edification of his de