Eduard Totleben


Franz Eduard von Tottleben
Eduard Totleben
Other name(s)Eduard Ivanovich Totleben
Born(1818-05-20)20 May 1818
Mitau, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1 July 1884(1884-07-01) (aged 66)
Bad Soden, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Allegiance Russian Empire
Service/branchImperial Russian Army
Years of service1836–1884
RankEngineer-General
Battles/warsCaucasian War
Crimean War
Russo-Turkish War
AwardsOrder of St. Andrew
Order of St. George (2nd class)
Order of St. Vladimir
Order of the Cross of Takovo[1]
Order of Prince Danilo I[1]
Coat of arms of the Tottleben (Totleben) family of 1872, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882.[2]

Franz Eduard Graf[a] von[b] Tottleben[c] (Russian: Эдуа́рд Ива́нович Тотле́бен, tr. Eduárd Ivánovich Totlében; 20 May [O.S. 8 May] 1818 – 1 July [O.S. 19 June] 1884), better known as Eduard Totleben in English, was a Baltic German military engineer and Imperial Russian Army general.[3] He was in charge of fortification and sapping work during a number of important Russian military campaigns.

  1. ^ a b Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima [Fame and honor: Decorations among Serbs, Serbs among decorations]. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 621.
  2. ^ Baltic coat of arms book Klingspor, Carl Arvid. pp. 117
  3. ^ Chisholm 1911.


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