Eduard Schensnovich

Eduard Nikolayevich Schensnovich Edurd Nikolevi ensnvi, occasionally transliterated as Polish Edward Nikoajewicz Szczsnowicz was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy.

Schensnovich was born in Arkhangelsk into an ethnic Polish nobility in the Russian Empire. His father, Nikolai Schensnovich was a career naval officer, who had been exiled to Arkhangelsk in 1833 for his role in the November Uprising. The family moved to Kronstadt in 1862. Schensnovich entered military service in 1867, and joined the Sea Cadet Corps in Petrograd, graduating as a midshipman in 1871. HIs first assignment was to the clipper ship Pearl in the Pacific Ocean in 1871, following which he joined the gunboat Smerch as a warrant officer. In 1876 he was posted to the Black Sea Fleet serving on board torpedo boats, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1877. During the Russo Turkish War of 1877 he served as a mine warfare specialist. In 1878 he joined the mine warfare school of the Russian Baltic Fleet and represented Russia during the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and went on to study the latest developments in mines in France and England later that year. From 18801885 he conducted

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