Peter Tekeli was a Russian general-in-chief of Serb origin. He achieved the highest rank among the Serbs who served in the Imperial Russian Army.
1787 engraving, exhibited in the Pushkin All-Russian Museum (Всероссийский музей А.С. Пушкина), Saint Petersburg.
There is a community of Serbs in Russia, also known as Russian Serbs, which includes Russian citizens of ethnic Serb descent or Serbian-born people residing in the country.
Sava Vladislavich, 18th-century adventurer and diplomat
Peter Tekeli, General-in-Chief of the Imperial Russian Army
Image: Пелевин И.А. Иоанн Васильевич Грозный
Image: Михаил Андреевич Милорадович