Georgi Skalon

Georg Karl de Scallon (Polish: Gieorgij Skałon, Russian: Гео́ргий Анто́нович Скало́н, tr.

During the Russian Revolution of 1905 he introduced a martial law (on 10 November) and gave orders that led to brutal dispersion of crowds protesting in several Polish cities, with many fatalities among the civilian demonstrators.

On 18 August 1906 Organizacja Bojowa PPS tried to kill him with two bombs thrown at his carriage (by Wanda Krahelska), but he survived.

[1] In 1912, a sudden test of troop mobilization capabilities was carried out in the Warsaw Military District and elsewhere throughout the empire.

She was daughter of the Colonel of the Imperial Russian Cuirassier Regiment, Baron Joseph Kasimir Alexander von Korff (1829–1873) and Anna Myasnikova.