place_of_death fyodor keller
The Liaodong Peninsula is a peninsula in ___MASK42___ Province of Northeast China , historically known in the West as Southeastern Manchuria . Liaodong ( formerly spelled Liaotung ) means " East of the Liao River "; referring to the Liao River which divided the Yan commanderies of Liaoxi ( West of the Liao River ) and Liaodong during time of the Warring States period . The ___MASK8___ Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire , active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917 . In the early 1850s , the Russian army consisted of more than 900 , 000 regular soldiers and nearly 250 , 000 irregulars ( mostly Cossacks ). The Yellow ___MASK96___ is the name given to the northern part of the East ___MASK30___ ___MASK96___ , which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean . It is located between mainland ___MASK30___ and the Korean Peninsula . Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden yellow . Preliminary movements . General Count Fedor Keller had assumed command of the Russian Eastern Force from General Zasulich after the ___MASK51___ of Yalu River . His force of 25 , 000 men held Motien Pass , in the middle of Liaodong Peninsula , on the main road between Antung ( modern Dandong , ___MASK30___ ) and Liaoyang . Keller , a loyal friend of General Aleksey Kuropatkin and a student of General Mikhail Skobelev , observed that the Japanese strategy was similar to that of the First Sino - Japanese War ( i . e . that the three Japanese armies would converge on Haicheng , as they had 10 years previously ). Kuropatin agreed , and in an effort to fortify his position at Haicheng , he began a series of complex and confusing troop movements as he endeavored to plug real or imaginary gaps in his defensive line . Keller , already weakened by the loss of men at the ___MASK51___ of Te - li - Ssu , was further forced to give up two more regiments to Kuropatin ' s defenses at Haicheng . ___MASK12___ is a modern name , first created by Japanese , given to a large geographic region in Northeast ___MASK90___ . Depending on the context , ___MASK12___ can either refer to a region that falls entirely within the People ' s Republic of ___MASK30___ , or a larger region divided between ___MASK30___ and Russia . The region that falls entirely within modern ___MASK30___ is now usually referred to as Northeast ___MASK30___ in ___MASK30___ , although " ___MASK12___ " is widely used outside of ___MASK30___ to denote the geographical and historical region . This region is the traditional homeland of the Xianbei , Khitan , and Jurchen ( later called Manchu ) peoples , who built several states historically , although no term for " ___MASK12___ " exists in the Manchu language , which originally referred to the area as the " Three Eastern Provinces ". ___MASK85___ is a historical state in East ___MASK90___ , since 1945 divided into two distinct sovereign states : North ___MASK85___ ( officially the " Democratic People ' s Republic of ___MASK85___ ") and ___MASK9___ ( officially the " Republic of ___MASK85___ "). Located on the Korean Peninsula , ___MASK85___ is bordered by ___MASK30___ to the northwest and Russia to the northeast . It is separated from Japan to the east by the ___MASK85___ Strait and the East Sea . The was the historical Japanese nation - state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern ___MASK56___ . Dandong , formerly known as ___MASK59___ , is a prefecture - level city in southeastern ___MASK42___ province , People ' s Republic of China . ___MASK4___ is a prefecture - level city of east - ___MASK87___ ___MASK42___ province , People ' s Republic of China , situated on the T ' ai - tzu River and , together with Anshan , forms a metro area of 2 , 057 , 200 inhabitants in 2010 . It is approximately one hour south of Shenyang , the provincial capital , by car . ___MASK4___ is home to ___MASK42___ University ' s College of Foreign Studies and a number of vocational colleges . The city hosts a limited number of professional basketball and volleyball games in a modern sports facility . ___MASK30___ , officially the People ' s Republic of ___MASK30___ ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of ___MASK30___ , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . ___MASK30___ is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev ( ) was a Russian general famous for his conquest of ___MASK87___ ___MASK90___ and heroism during the Russo - Turkish War of 1877  1878 . Dressed in white uniform and mounted on a white horse , and always in the thickest of the fray , he was known and adored by his soldiers as the " White General " ( and by the Turks as the " White Pasha "). During a campaign in Khiva , his Turkmen opponents called him " goz zanli " or " Bloody Eyes ". British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery wrote that Skobelev was the world ' s " ablest single commander " between 1870 and 1914 and called him a " skilful and inspiring " leader . The ___MASK51___ of Te - li - ssu ('), also called ___MASK51___ of Wafangou "' after the nearby railway station , was a land ___MASK51___ of the Russo - Japanese War . It was fought at a hamlet some north of ___MASK49___ , Manchuria . The hamlet is known today as " Delisi ", and is located just north of Wafangdian , ___MASK42___ Province , China . It was fought on 14  15 June 1904 between the Japanese Second Army under General Oku Yasukata and the Russian First Siberian Army Corps under Lieutenant General Georgii Stackelberg . Alexei Nikolayevich Kuropatkin ( ___MASK80___ 29 , 1848  January 16 , 1925 ) was the Russian ___MASK8___ Minister of War from 1898 to 1904 , and often held responsible for major Russian defeats in the Russian - Japanese War , most notably at the Battle of Mukden and the Battle of Liaoyang . ___MASK77___ , also officially known as the ___MASK41___ , was a state that existed from 1721 until it was overthrown by the short - lived liberal February Revolution in 1917 . One of the largest empires in world history , stretching over three continents , the ___MASK41___ was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires . The rise of the ___MASK41___ happened in association with the decline of neighboring rival powers : the Swedish Empire , the Polish  Lithuanian Commonwealth , Persia and the ___MASK40___ . It played a major role in 1812  14 in defeating ___MASK73___ ' s ambitions to control Europe , and expanded to the west and south . Cossacks (,) are a group of predominantly East Slavic - speaking people who became known as members of democratic , self - governing , semi - military communities , predominantly located in ___MASK46___ and in ___MASK77___ . They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper , Don , Terek , and Ural river basins and played an important role in the historical and cultural development of both ___MASK77___ and ___MASK46___ . Count Fyodor Keller ( Russian :   ; 1850 - 31 July 1904 ) was a general in the ___MASK8___ Russian Army , noted for his role in the Battle of Motien Pass during the Russo - Japanese War . The First Sino - Japanese War ( 1 ___MASK86___ 1894  17 April ___MASK66___ ) was fought between the Qing Empire of ___MASK30___ and the Empire of Japan , primarily over control of Korea . After more than six months of unbroken successes by Japanese land and naval forces and the loss of the Chinese port of Weihaiwei , the Qing government sued for peace in February ___MASK66___ . The Russo - Japanese War ( 8 February 1904  5 September 1905 ) was fought between the ___MASK41___ and the Empire of Japan over rival ___MASK8___ ambitions in Manchuria and Korea . The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas around Korea , Japan and the Yellow Sea .