query: place_of_birth aleksei shein
supports: Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. Population:  Aleksei Semyonovich Shein (    in Russian ) ( 1662 -- February 12 , 1700 ) , Russian commander and statesman , the first Russian Generalissimus ( 1696 ) , boyar , great - grandson of Mikhail Shein . As a boy , Shein attended the execution of Stepan Razin . Later in his life , he would participate in the coronation ceremony of Peter I and Ivan V under Cardinal Brandr Beekman - Ellner . Sophia Alekseyevna was very fond of Shein and granted him the title of a boyar . Shein was a military commander in Tobolsk and Kursk in 1680 -- 1684 . Later , he was one of the military leaders during the Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689 and the Azov campaigns of 1695 -- 1696 . During the Second Azov campaign in 1696 , Shein was the Commander - in - Chief of the Russian land forces and was granted the title of Generalissimus by Peter I for his military achievements . Upon his departure on the Grand Embassy mission (   , or Velikoye posolstvo ) , Peter I appointed Shein Commander - in - Chief of the Russian army and director of the Gunnery , Reiter and Foreign Affairs Departments . In 1697 , Shein defeated the Crimean and Nogai Tatars . In 1698 , Shein was the one to suppress the Streltsy Uprising . Upon Peter 's return , however , Shein fell into his disgrace for not having disclosed Streltsys '' ties with Sophia and , therefore , lost his boyar beard . This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm , Hugh , ed. ( 1911 ) . Encyclopædia Britannica ( 11th ed. ) . Cambridge University Press . Russia (from the  Rus'), also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern, about 77% of the population live in European Russia. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. Bulgaria (tr. '), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (tr. '), is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. With a territory of , Bulgaria is Europe's 16th-largest country. Wallachia or Walachia (; archaic: ', Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia is traditionally divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia). Wallachia as a whole is sometimes referred to as Muntenia through identification with the larger of the two traditional sections. Mikhail Borisovich Shein ("  ") (?1634) was a leading Russian general during the reign of Tsar Mikhail Romanov. Despite his tactical skills and successful military career, he ended up losing his army in a failed attempt to besiege Smolensk and being executed for this defeat. The first Russian generalissimo, Aleksey Shein, was his great grandson. Generalissimo (, , ) is a military rank of the highest degree, superior to field marshal and other five-star ranks in the countries where they are used. The word "generalissimo" is Italian and is the absolute superlative of "generale" ('general'), thus meaning "the highest-ranking of all generals". Commander (French: "Commandeur") is a common naval and air force officer rank. Commander is also used as a rank or title in other formal organisations, including several police forces.  Ukraine (tr. ) is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland and Slovakia to the west, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. Ukraine is currently in territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 but which Ukraine and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of , making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world. It has a population of about 44.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. Romania is a sovereign state located in Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. It has an area of and a temperate-continental climate. With 19.94 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh-most-populous member state of the European Union. The capital and largest city, Bucharest, with its 1,883,425 inhabitants is the sixth-largest city in the EU. A boyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Bulgarian, Kievan, Moscovian, Wallachian and Romanian aristocracies, second only to the ruling princes (in Bulgaria, tsars), from the 10th century to the 17th century. The rank has lived on as a surname in Russia, Ukraine and Romania, and also in Finland, where it is spelled "Pajari".
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answer: moscow