Alexander Drenteln

Alexander Romanovich Drenteln (Russian: Александр Романович Дрентельн) (1820-1888) was a Russian general.^[1]

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.^[2]

Awards

• Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov), 1st class, 1863
• Order of Saint Anna, 1st class, 1868

References

1. Fuhrmann, Joseph T. (2013). Rasputin: The Untold Story (PDF). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. xxi. ISBN 978-1-118-22693-3.
2. Bosch Alessio, Constanza; Gaido, Daniel (2015). "Vera Zasulich's Critique of Neo-Populism Party Organisation and Individual Terrorism in the Russian Revolutionary Movement, (1878-1902)" (PDF). Historical Materialism. 23: 93–125.