Paul Georg Edler von Rennenkampf was a Baltic German nobleman, statesman and general of the Imperial Russian Army who commanded the 1st Army in the invasion of East Prussia during the initial stage of
Rennenkampf in 1910
Rennenkampf (fourth from left) during the Boxer Rebellion in 1901
A wounded Rennenkampff after the Battle of Liaoyang
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, Boxer Movement, Yihetuan Movement, or Boxer War, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 a
Paul von Rennenkampf
…I. He also served as the last commander of the Vilna Military District. Rennenkampf gained a reputation as an effective cavalry commander during the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese War. Following service in the latter, he led the detachment that suppressed the Chita Republic during the 1905 Russian Revolution…
Taku Forts Landing
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1970 068 45, China, Boxeraufstand, Alfred Graf v. Waldersee