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Aleksandr Burago
Aleksandr Petrovich Burago
was an officer of the
Russian Imperial
army. Serving as a
captain
under
Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko
, he commanded the force that
liberated
Plovdiv
from the
Ottoman rule
on 16 January 1878. Later on Burago became a
colonel
. He died of
tuberculosis
at the age of 30, in 1883, on
Madeira
, and was buried in the
Alexander Nevsky Lavra
in
Saint Petersburg
.
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