Alexander Iwanowitsch Ostermann-Tolstoy
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy ( Russian Александр Иванович Остерман-Толстой , scientific. Transliteration Aleksandr Ivanovich Osterman-Tolstoy , * 1770/72; † 11. February 1857 in Le Petit-Saconnex , Switzerland ) was an officer of the Russian army in time of the Napoleonic Wars . He was a great-grandson of Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann and a great-nephew of Iwan Ostermann .
Life
Ostermann-Tolstoy fought with distinction in the campaigns against Turkey and Poland in 1790 .
In 1798 he became major general and in 1805 received supreme command of the Russian corps as lieutenant general, which carried out a diversionary attack in northern Germany together with Swedish and English auxiliary troops. Upon his return he became governor of Saint Petersburg . In 1806 he led the 2nd division in Bennigsen's army and in 1807 fought against the French at Preussisch-Eylau . In 1812 he was given command of the IV Army Corps and took part in the entire campaign of 1812 with distinction. He took a substantial part in the battles of Borodino and Tarutino . In 1813 Ostermann-Tolstoy was wounded in the Battle of Bautzen (May 21/22), then fought on 26/27. August near Dresden . In the Battle of Kulm on August 29th and 30th, he commanded the Russian Guard Corps. In this battle, in which he stood up to the enemy at the head of the guard corps (under General Vandamme ), he was wounded again and lost his left arm.
Together with Klenau , he achieved the surrender of Dresden in November . In 1815 he went to Paris as envoy for a short time . In 1817 Ostermann-Tolstoy was appointed general of the infantry. As commander of the Grenadier Corps , he took his leave in 1825. After spending several years in France and Italy , in 1831, accompanied by Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer , he undertook a journey through the Orient and in 1837 settled in Le Petit-Saconnex on Lake Geneva . Ostermann-Tolstoy died childless.
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| SURNAME | Ostermann-Tolstoy, Alexander Iwanowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ostermann-Tolstoi, Alexander Ivanovich Graf (full name); Остерман-Толсто́й, Александр Иванович (Russian); Osterman-Tolstoj, Aleksandr Ivanovič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1770 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1857 |
| Place of death | Le Petit-Saconnex , Switzerland |