Nikolai Grigorevich Stoletov was a general in the Imperial Russian Army. He was the brother of noted physicist Aleksandr Stoletov.
Stoletov was born in Vladimir and attended the Vladimir Gymnasium and the Physics faculty of the Moscow State University graduating in 1854. He joined the Russian army in 1854 and fought in the Crimean War, participating in the Battle of Inkermann and the Siege of Sevastopol.
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