| | Zakhar Grigor'evich Chernyshev - free-definition |
 | | Count Zakhar Grigor'evich Chernyshev or Chernyshov (1722 - 1784), rose to become Minister of War to the empress Catherine the Great of Russia. |
| | Chernyshev, eldest son of Grigorii Petrovich Chernyshev and elder brother of Ivan Grigor'evich Chernyshev and of Petr Grigor'evich Chernyshev, enlisted in the Russian military service in 1735. |
| | After a diplomatic mission to Vienna and a period at court, he held the command of a Russian corps of approximately 20,000 soldiers in the Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763). |
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