# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-turchaninov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:26:07.835Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-turchaninov"
name: "Ivan Turchaninov"
slug: "ivan-turchaninov"
description: "Ivan Vasilyevich Turchaninov, better known by his anglicized name of John Basil Turchin, was a member of the Russian nobility, a military-intelligence Colonel in the Imperial Russian Army, and a personal staff-officer to the future Emperor Alexander II of Russia. He immigrated to the United States in 1856, and after working as a farmer in Long Island and as a railroad official in Chicago, he voluntarily returned to military service in 1861, becoming a Union Army Colonel during the American Civil War."
tagline: "United States Civil War Union Army general (1822–1901)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Basil_Turchin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1822-01-30"
deathDate: "1901-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.16
  momentum:             8.509316770186334
  historical:           5.753750666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Turchin"
    title: "John B. Turchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Turchin"
    title: "John B. Turchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Turchin"
    title: "Ivan Turchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%A2%D1%83%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Джон Базіл Турчин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AF%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A9%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98"
    title: "ჯონ ტურჩინი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Турчанинов, Иван Васильевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3180969"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump