Alexander von Baranoff
Alexander Ludwig Gustav von Baranoff , Russian Александр Евстафьевич Баранов (born January 9, 1837 in Reval , † December 27, 1905 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Swedish-Russian nobleman and Imperial Russian lieutenant general .
career
His military training began in the Russian page corps , which he finished in 1857 as an ensign and then began his practical military service in the Preobrazhensk body guard regiment . With his promotion to lieutenant , he was in the 1860 Nizhny Novgorod - Dragoon - Regiment in the Caucasus were added. Between 1860 and 1862 he took part in several fighting in the Caucasus War (1817–1864) and was distinguished by his bravery . In 1863 he returned to his regular regiment and was used in the campaign against Poland , in the autumn of 1863 he returned with his regiment to Saint Petersburg . In 1865 he was seconded to military governor of the Turkestan region and promoted to captain in the cavalry . Here, too, he successfully took part in a wide variety of combat missions and was promoted to major in 1866 . In November 1866 he took command of the 3rd Orenburg Line Battalion and fought with it under the command of Major General Romanovsky at Ura-Tube and Djizak . In these missions he had also emerged as a brave troop leader and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1867 . In June 1968 he served in the Battle of Samarqand and was promoted to colonel in the same year . After a four-month sick leave in 1869, he moved to the infantry and was commander of the 61st Infantry Reserve - battalion . In 1872 he led the Kutaisi regiment in the Russo-Turkish War in 1877 and received a serious wound . In November 1877 he was promoted to major general and in 1880 appointed commander-in-chief of the Zimbirsk province , in September 1880 he was commander of the 21st Brigade . His last employment was as a commander of the Kazan Military District with the rank of lieutenant general.
Awards
- 1862 Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus , 3rd class
- 1862 Russian Order of St. George , 4th grade
- 1864 Golden sword for bravery
- 1866 Russian Order of Saint Anne , 3rd class
- 1866 Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class
- 1869 Order of St. Anna, 2nd grade
- 1873 Order of St. Vladimir , 4th grade
- 1877 Order of St. Vladimir 3rd class
- 1881 Order of St. Stanislaus 1st class
- 1884 Order of St. Anne 1st class
- 1890 Order of St. Vladimir 2nd class
- 1896 Imperial and Royal Order of the White Eagle
- 1905 Alexander Nevsky Order
Origin and family
Alexander came from the von Baranoff family . These had their origins in a boyar family and had settled in Livonia and Estonia in the middle of the 16th century . His father was the Russian Lieutenant General Moritz Gustav von Baranoff (1790–1845). His older brother was the Russian Lieutenant General Nikolai Karl von Baranoff (1825-1903). Alexander married Katharina Lenartzen (* 1851), their descendants were: Platon Alexandrovich, Vladimir Alexandrovich, Ekaterina Alexandrovna, Nikolai Alexandrovich, Anna Alexandrovna, Elena Alexandrovna, Peter Alexandrovich.
Web links
- Баранов Александр Евстафьевич Biography (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The General Government of Orenburg as the northern operational section (1st, 2nd and 3rd Orenburg Line Battalion), Hugo Stumm, Der Russische Feldzug Nach Chiw, BoD - Books on Demand , 2012, ISBN 3846018090 [1] , page 203, accessed on 8. January 2018
- ↑ General Romanovsky ru: Романовский, Дмитрий Ильич
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baranoff, Alexander von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baranoff, Alexander Ludwig Gustav von (full name); Баранов, Александр Евстафьевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-Russian nobleman and imperial-Russian lieutenant general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1905 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |