Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov

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Mikhail Gorchakov, ( Jan Ksawery Kaniewski , 1860)

Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov ( Russian Михаил Дмитриевич Горчаков * January 28 . Jul / 8. February  1792 greg. , † 18 jul. / The 30th May  1861 greg. In Warsaw ) was a field marshal of the Russian army and commander in the Crimean War .

Life

Gorchakov came from the old Russian aristocratic family Gorchakov , which traced its origins back to the Rurikids . He was the son of Prince Dmitri Petrovich Gorchakov and the cousin of Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov . His brother Peter led an army corps in the Crimean War .

Gorchakov joined the Guards Artillery in 1807 and was commanded to the Caucasus in 1809 , where he took part in the war against Persia as an adjutant to Major General Filippo Paulucci . With the rank of major general he fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828/29 . In 1831 he fought in Poland during the November Uprising and took part in the storming of Warsaw. In 1846 Gorchakov was appointed Governor General of Warsaw. In 1849 he fought in Hungary and became adjutant general to the tsar.

At the beginning of the Crimean War he was commander in chief of the Russian troops on the Danube . On July 3, 1853, he occupied the Danube principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. The Ottoman Empire then declared war on Russia on October 16, 1853. The Ottoman general Omar Pascha advanced against the Russian army on the Danube and won a first victory at Oltenitza on November 4th . In April 1854, at the express request of Nicholas I , Ivan Fyodorowitsch Paskewitsch took over command of the Danube in place of Gortschakow . This began at the end of April 1854 with the siege of the strategically important fortress Silistra . Paskevich left the army again because he was injured, and Gorchakov continued the siege. Omar Pascha brought up a relief army on June 10 and was again victorious in the fighting off Silistra.

Gorchakov also took part in the fighting for the siege of Sevastopol , in the Crimea . In the battle of the Alma he led the Russian right wing. As a result of a fall with his shot horse, he gave the command to General Kwizinski , the chief of the 16th division. In March 1855 Gortschakow was in place of Prince Menshikov commander-in-chief in the Crimea and over the entire armed forces in southern Russia. After the Crimean War he was appointed governor ( Namiestnik ) of Poland in 1856, again as the successor to Paskewitsch . He died in Warsaw on May 30, 1861. His body was buried in Sevastopol at his request .

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SURNAME Gorchakov, Michail Dmitrijewitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Field Marshal of the Russian Army and Commander in Chief in the Crimean War
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1792
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1861
Place of death Warsaw