Grigore Sturdza


Grigorie Sturdza was a Moldavian, later Romanian general and politician.

Biography

A son of Mihail Sturdza, he was educated in France and Germany. He became a general in the Ottoman army under the name of Muklis Pasha, and afterwards attained the same rank in the Moldavian army. He was a candidate for the Moldavian throne in 1859, and subsequently a prominent member of the Russophile party in the Romanian parliament.

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