Ivan Andronikashvili

Ivan Andronikashvili

Iwane Andronikaschwili , also Iwan Malchasowitsch Andronikow ( Georgian ივანე ანდრონიკაშვილი; Russian Иван Малхазович Андроников ; * 1798 in Tbilisi ; † 1868 ) was a Georgian prince and Russian general .

Life

Ivan Andronikashvili came from a Kakhetian aristocratic family, joined the Guard in Saint Petersburg in 1817 , fought as a major from 1824, first in the Caucasus , then in 1826 and 1827 in the war against Persia . In 1828, after the storming of Akhaltsikhe, he was promoted to colonel and commander of the Nischegorod regiment , with whom he drove a Turkish detachment apart near Besiburt . After he stood out several times in the fight against the Caucasian hill tribe, especially in the suppression of an uprising of the Ossetians in 1840 , he became military governor of Tbilisi in 1850 and lieutenant general in 1851.

At the outbreak of the Crimean War with the leadership of a corps of 10,000 men, on the Caucasian theater of war, entrusted, he hit on 26 November 1853 Turkish Main Corps at Suplis to flight, crossed the border and occupied the Sanjak Pozchow . In the 1854 campaign he commanded all Russian armed forces in Guria , Imereti , Mingrelia and the Akhaltsikhe district, had to evacuate Redutkalé on May 19 when the allied enemy fleets appeared and retreat to Osurgeti , but fought over the 30,000 strong Turks on June 16 under Selim Pasha a complete victory at Cholok , through which he secured Guria and Mingrelia for Russia.

In the spring of 1855 he resigned his command and soon resigned from his post as military governor of Tbilisi.

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