Nikolai Gustawowitsch Pilar von Pilchau

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Nikolai Gustawowitsch Pilar von Pilchau ( Russian : Пилар фон Пильхау, Николай Густавович; born May 30, 1831 in Kiev , † January 26, 1886 in Nice ) was Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army .

Career

His military career began on May 26, 1849 as a cornet in the Chevalier Guard . In 1850 he was promoted to lieutenant and in 1852 took over the post of adjutant to Count Peter Andreas Kleinmichel . In 1854 he was promoted to staff captain, followed in 1855 as an adjutant to General Iakov Rostovtsev (1803-1860), who exercised command of cadet training. On November 18, 1856, he took part in the first active military service in a regiment . In 1857 he was promoted to Rittmeister , his next promotion to colonel followed in 1860. When he was appointed major general in 1866 , he was given command of the cavalry . When he was promoted to lieutenant general , he was released from active military service and went to medical treatment . In 1880 he settled in the south of France and died on January 26, 1886 in Nice .

Origin and family

Nikolai Gustav came from the German-Baltic noble family Pilar von Pilchau ( Pallifer family ) from which several Russian generals emerged. His father was the Russian Lieutenant General Gustav Friedrich Pilar von Pilchau (1748–1826), whose older brother Karl Magnus Pilar von Pilchau (1791–1861) was also a Russian Lieutenant General. His cousin was the Russian Lieutenant General Theodor Kotzebue-Pilar von Pilchau (1848–1911). Nikolai married Countess Elisabeth von Kleinmichel (1833-1896), she was the daughter of Count Kleinmichel, with whom Nikolai had served as adjutant.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Piotr Andrej Wich Graf Kleinmichel (1789 - 1869 in Saint Petersburg) Richard Mowbray Hayward: Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842-1855 . East European Monographs, 1998, ISBN 0-88033-390-1 , pp. 42-47.
  2. ↑ Pilar von Pilchau I. House Pallifer - ancestry. In: Otto Magnus von Stackelberb, Genealogical Handbook of the Estonian Knighthood, Vol .: 1, Görlitz, 1931 (Munich Digitization Center - MDZ, page 156 ff. [1] )
personal data
SURNAME Pilar von Pilchau, Nikolai Gustawowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1886
Place of death Kiev