Abram Petrovich Gannibal

E123652

Abram Petrovich Gannibal was an African-born military engineer and nobleman who rose to prominence in Imperial Russia and is best known as the great-grandfather of poet Alexander Pushkin.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Abram Petrovich Gannibal canonical 17
Gannibal 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf African-born Russian
Russian nobleman
human
military engineer
baptismName Abram Petrovich
baptismSponsor Peter the Great
baptizedIn Russian Orthodox Church
birthYear 1696
broughtTo Ottoman Empire
burialPlace Suyda, Russian Empire
capturedAsChild true
child Osip Abramovich Gannibal
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
deathYear 1781
educatedIn France
Metz
ethnicOrigin African
familyName Gannibal
fieldOfWork fortification
military engineering
givenName Abram
grandchild Nadezhda Osipovna Gannibal
greatGrandchild Alexander Pushkin
knownFor being the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin
rise from enslaved African child to Russian general and nobleman
languageSpoken French
German
Russian
laterBroughtTo Russia
militaryBranch Imperial Russian Army
militaryRank general
notableRelative Alexander Pushkin
notableWork design and construction of fortifications in Russia
military engineering projects in the Baltic region
patronymicName Petrovich
placeOfBirth Central or East Africa (disputed)
positionHeld commandant of Tallinn
governor of Reval
religion Eastern Orthodoxy
residence Mikhailovskoye estate
Reval
Saint Petersburg
linked to: St. Petersburg
servedUnder Empress Elizabeth of Russia
linked to: Elizabeth of Russia

Peter the Great
sexOrGender male
socialStatus nobleman of the Russian Empire
spouse Christina Regina Siöberg
Evdokia Dioper

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Alexander Pushkin grandfather Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Abram hasNotableBearer Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Nadezhda Osipovna Gannibal familyName Gannibal
linked to: Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Nadezhda Osipovna Gannibal hasAncestor Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Nadezhda Osipovna Gannibal notableRelative Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Abram Petrovich Gannibal familyName Gannibal
linked to: Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Sergey Lvovich Pushkin hasRelative Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Gannibal family notableMember Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Gannibal family foundingFigure Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Abram Petrovich alsoKnownAs Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Evdokia Dioper spouse Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Suyda, Russian Empire hasEstateOf Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Suyda, Russian Empire associatedWith Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Suyda, Russian Empire hasBurialSiteOf Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Mikhailovskoye estate grandfatherEstateOf Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Christina Regina Siöberg spouse Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Osip Abramovich Gannibal father Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Osip Abramovich Gannibal relative Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Pushkin family hasAncestryConnection Abram Petrovich Gannibal