Abram Petrovich Gannibal

Abram Petrovich Gannibal | Famous Europeans With African Ancestry A slave that was brought to Russia by Peter the Great. He later became a major general as a military engineer and the Governor of Reval. He is also the great grandfather of the writer

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Abram Petrovich Gannibal is the Russian-African Politician, General, Philosopher and Scientist Extraordinaire. Abram Petrovich is founding father of calculus, modern mathematics and the science of rocketry or rocket propulsion, among numerous accomplishments, including the opening and organisation of the first higher education establishment in Russia, the University of Moscow. This astonishingly astute and academically assiduous Russian of African descent made the reign of Tsar Peter great.