Johann von Michelsohnen

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Johann von Michelsohnen

Johann von Michelsohnen ( Russian Иван Иванович Михельсон * 1735 ; † August 9, 1807 in Bucharest ) was a Russian general of the cavalry .

Life

family

Johann came from a Swedish noble family . His parents were the Swedish major general and Russian colonel Johann Georg von Michelsohnen and Rebecca Catharina, nee. of hedgehogs.

His first marriage was to Wilhelmine Freiin von Igelström , a sister of the Russian general Gustav Heinrich von Igelström (1737–1823). In his second marriage in 1781 he married the St. Catherine Order Lady Charlotte Helene von Rehbinder , a daughter of the Russian Lieutenant General and Governor General Reinhold Johann von Rehbinder (1732-1792).

Career

Michelsohnen played an officer career in the Imperial Russian Army , fought in the Seven Years War , the 5th Russian-Turkish War , the Russian-Austrian Turkish War and the Russian-Swedish War

After he stood against the Confederation of Bar in the field, he distinguished himself as a colonel in 1775, especially in the suppression of Pugachev's uprising against Catherine II . In 1783 he was promoted to major general of the Guard on Horseback and in 1788 he was corps commander in Finland as lieutenant general . From 1801 to 1803 he was military governor in New Russia and from 1803 to 1807 military governor in Vitebsk and Mogilew , where he was absent in 1805 as commander of the Western Army and from 1806 to 1807 as commander of the Dnestr Army.

Michelsohnen was the holder of the Alexander Nevsky Order , the Order of St. George III. Class and the Order of St. Andrew . From 1782 to 1795 he was in possession of the Salishof estates (1782–1795) and Loeweküll until 1792 , and in 1783 he had received the Estonian and 1784 Courland indigenous .

Web links

Commons : Johann von Michelsohnen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods part 2, 1.2: Estonia, Görlitz 1930, p. 70 ; Part 2, 3: Estonia, Görlitz 1930, p. 294.
  2. ^ Leonhard von Stryk : Contributions to the history of the manors of Livonia. Part one, The Estonian District with four maps. C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1877, pp. 268 and 270.