Dmitri Mikhailovich Volkonsky

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Dmitri Michailowitsch Volkonsky (1815)

Dmitri Michailowitsch Wolkonski ( Russian : Дмитрий Михайлович Волконский; * 1770 in Moscow ; † May 7, 1835 ibid) was a Russian prince , lieutenant general , senator and governor of Danzig .

Military career

DM Volkonsky began his military training in the Preobrazhensky Life Guard Regiment and was promoted to sergeant in 1774 . In 1775 he moved to the Ismailowski Life Guard Regiment and was promoted to sergeant major . On January 31, 1788, at the age of 18, he began his active military service in this regiment with the rank of first lieutenant . He experienced his first war deployment in the Russo-Swedish War from 1788 to 1789 and was deployed in the battles near Rochensalm on Svensksund and Wyborg . In 1791 he served in the corps of his grandfather Nikolai Grigoryevich Repnin-Volkonsky (1778-1845) and was deployed in the Russo-Austrian Turkish War with Anapa and Măcin . In 1792 he was sent to serve in the embassy in Constantinople. In 1794 he was in the Apscheronsk Infantry Regiment, which fought in Poland . On May 1, 1797, he received the rank of colonel and was transferred to the Moscow Garrison Regiment, a year later, on April 12, 1798, he was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the Moscow garrison. In December 1798 he was transferred to Malta as a commander and commanded three grenadier battalions, one artillery battalion and two mixed battalions under the command of General Borozdin. Furthermore, he commanded units during the Austro-Russian military mission in Italy and Switzerland; as part of the Second Coalition War 1799–1801 and was under the command of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov . He had been deployed in Livorno and was briefly assigned to the Imperial Russian Navy in the naval wars around the islands of Sicily , Corfu , Zakynthos and Kefalonia and was under the command of Admiral Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov . On December 20, 1800 he was promoted to lieutenant general. His other positions in 1800 were: Commander of the Saint Petersburg Grenadier Regiment, Commander of the Shirvan Musketeer Regiment and Inspector of the Infantry in the Siberian Military District, Chief of Staff in the Preobrazhensky Life Guard Regiment and in the 4th Jäger Regiment and ultimately from December 1800 to July 1801 Military Governor and Inspector of Infantry in the Grand Duchy of Finland . From March 1803 he was the inspector of the infantry stationed in Ukraine , in September 1802 he was appointed commander of the Russian troops in Georgia , which were under the commander-in-chief of the general and governor Pavel Dmitrievich Tsizianov . In 1805 he took part in the Austrian campaign and was active in the general staff of Generals Levin August von Bennigsen and Michail Illarionowitsch Kutusow . Like his relative Nikolai Grigoryevich Repnin-Volkonsky, he was wounded in the Battle of Austerlitz . In 1806 he took part in the Russo-Turkish War and commanded the siege of the Chotyn fortress . In the same year he was appointed commander of the 5th (later 6th) Division , with which he took part in the Russo-Prussian-French War of 1807. From November 1806 he commanded the 9th Division, in the further course of this war he was seriously wounded and as a result of this wounding , the 42-year-old Lieutenant General resigned from active military service.

He chose Moscow as his place of residence, but accompanied the headquarters of the Russian generals Mikhail Illarionowitsch Kutuzov and Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly in Podolsk , then he moved to his family in Tula . Tsar Alexsander I had assigned him to the Moscow militia by ukase , and at the suggestion of General Kutuzov he was reactivated on October 20, 1812. He took over command from General Johann von Lieven and became the commander of an infantry corps stationed in Brest-Litovsk . From February 1813 he led the corps in the siege of the fortress Glogau and the battles Lützen , Dresden and Bautzen . In 1813 he successfully led his corps in the siege of Danzig and was then briefly appointed governor of Danzig. On February 18, 1816, he was finally appointed senator to the Council of State with the rank of lieutenant general . He settled in Moscow and was interested in social, political and cultural affairs, as well as history, literature, science and religion. He was a frequent guest of his relative Sinaida Alexandrovna Volkonskaya , who held artistic events in her villa. He died on May 7, 1835 at the age of 65 and was buried in the family grave in the cemetery of the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow.

Origin and family

Coat of arms of the Volkonsky princes

DM Volkonsky came from the ancient noble family of the Rurikids and was a descendant of the princely family Volkonsky . His grandfather was the Russian major general Sergei Fjodorowitsch Volkonsky (1715-1784) and his uncle the general of the infantry Nikolai Sergeyevich Volkonsky (1753-1821) and his cousin the major general Dmitri Alexandrovich Volkonsky (1792-1838). His father was Michail Sergejewitsch Volkonsky (1745-1812), who was married to the court lady Katharina Isaewna Shafirowa (1734-1795).

Natalia Alexandrewna Mussina-Pushkina

Dmitri Michailowitsch married Natalia Aleksandrewna Musina-Pushkina (1784-1829) in 1811, the daughter of the historian Alexei Ivanovich Mussin-Pushkin (1744-1817). From this marriage the only son Mikhail Dmitriwitsch Volkonsky (1811-1875), a later Russian major general, emerged. He was married to Countess Anna Ivanovna Paskevich (1822-1901), a daughter of Prince Ivan Fyodorovich Paskewitsch (1782-1856).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Apscheronsk Infantry Regiment = ru: Апшеронский 81-й пехотный полк
  2. ↑ Moscow Garrison Regiment = ru: Бородинский 68-й пехотный полк
  3. ↑ Johann Karl Plümicke : Sketched history of the Russian-Prussian blockade and siege of Danzig in 1813: together with the defense of this place after the main moments of this siege and with a planned, precisely instructive description of all the siege work ... , Maurer's bookstore, 1817, original from University of Wisconsin - Madison, p. 186 ( Digitized ) Dec. 1, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Volkonsky, Dmitri Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Дмитрий Михайлович Волконский (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian prince, lieutenant general and governor
DATE OF BIRTH 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1835
Place of death Moscow