Alexander Ivanovich Michailowski-Danilewski

Alexander Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky (* August 26 ^{. Jul} / 6. September 1790 ^greg. , † September 9 ^jul. / 21st September 1848 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian historian.

Michailowski-Danilewski studied at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen a . a. Camera science and got a job in the Russian Ministry of Finance in 1812 after successfully completing his degree. In the same year he was assigned to the staff of Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionowitsch Kutuzov and took part in several campaigns as his adjutant until 1813. Then Michailowski-Danilewski worked until 1814 under the direction of Wolchonski as his clerk .

Alexander Iwanowitsch Michailowski-Danilewski was a member of the Freemasons Association . He was accepted in November 1813 in the Russian field box Zum Heiligen Georg in Frankfurt . Alexander recorded his impressions of Freemasonry, which he collected in the German field box at the Iron Cross , in his diary.

In September 1814 Michailowski-Danilewski became a member of the Russian delegation at the Congress of Vienna and remained that until the end of June 1815. During this time he became friends with Tsar Alexander I , who invited him in the summer of 1815 to accompany him on various trips .

In 1818 Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky returned to Russia and got another job in the tsarist military administration. In the war against the Turks he served in the rank of major general under the command of Field Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski . In 1835 Mikhailovsky-Danilewski was promoted to lieutenant general and four years later to senator. As such, he was appointed as a member of the council of war , where he endeavored to reform the army until the end of his life.

The style of his literary work was praised during his lifetime; Due to his fiery patriotism, however, he was often unable to maintain a neutral standpoint. Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky died in Petersburg on September 21, 1848 at the age of about 58.

Works

Description of the Turkish War from 1806 to 1812 . Saint Petersburg 1843 (4 vol.)
Memories about the campaigns of 1812–13 . Saint Petersburg 1834
Memories of the 1813 campaign . Dorpat 1837
Memories about the war from 1814-15 . Dorpat 1838

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SURNAME	Michailowski-Danilewski, Alexander Iwanowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian chronicler and military person
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1790
DATE OF DEATH	September 21, 1848
Place of death	St. Petersburg