Otto von Bistram

Otto Anton von Bistram

Otto Anton von Bistram , ( Russian Антон Антонович Бистром ; born June 18, 1789 in Rappel , † March 22, 1854 in Nikol'skoye , Tambov Oblast ) was a Baltic baron and cavalry general of the Imperial Russian Army .

Life

At the age of just 11, he was drafted into military service in 1799 . From 1806 to 1807, he participated in the fourth coalition war against Emperor Napoleon I in part and in 1812, the so-called Patriotic War he commanded an artillery - Brigade which near Kljastizy was used. In both war missions he was wounded several times and promoted to lieutenant colonel.

In 1815 he was released from active service at the expense of the state and underwent medical treatment . He served again in the artillery from 1816 on, another wound forced him to be treated abroad. In 1821 he became the commander of the Life Guard Artillery Regiment . On March 1, 1823, he was promoted to major general and left the Imperial Russian Army on March 6, 1834 as lieutenant general and cavalry general. From 1829 to 1834 he was a major general member of the Council for Transport Routes.

AA Bistrom and his family settled in Nikolskoye in the Tambov governorate. In his honor, the place Nikolsky was given the additional name Bistrom. Out of gratitude and in memory of the survival of the severe wounding in the battle of Kulm , his family had the brick Nikolskaya church built in 1852; the church was demolished during the communist rule. The Bistram couple had a two-class school built for the children of their servants and the farmers .

Orders and decorations

1. Russian awards

Russian Order of St. George , 4th grade
Russian Order of Saint Anne , 2nd class
Order of St. Vladimir , 3rd class
Russian Order of Saint Anne, 1st Class (1828)
Decoration of honor for the 25th anniversary of service

2. Foreign awards

Prussian Kulm Cross
Prussian Pour le Mérite (1813)
Prussian Order of the Red Eagle

Origin and family

Family coat of arms of the Estonian family von Bistram

Otto von Bistram came from the Baltic noble family von Bistram , who had been raised to the status of Swedish barons in 1604. He was the son of Otto Gotthard von Bistram (1762-1836) and Augusta Johann von Krusenstern, a daughter of the Russian admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern . He was a member of the St. Petersburg Masonic Lodge "Alexander the Crowned Pelican". His cousins were the Russian generals Karl von Bistram (1770-1838) and Adam von Bistram (1774-1825). In the first marriage he was married to Maria Petrovna Zagryazhskaya, and in the second to Maria Pavlovna Shepochkina. His offspring were 5 daughters.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Life Guard Artillery Regiment: ru: Лейб-гвардии Конная артиллерия # Командный состав
↑ Nikolskoje: ru: Никольское (Мичуринский район)
↑ Lodge "Alexander to the crowned pelican" In: Friedrich Heldmann, The three oldest geschichtl. Monuments of the German Freemason Brotherhood , published 1819, original from the University of Lausanne, digitized 12 Aug. 2009, p. 541 [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Bistram, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bistram, Otto Anton von (full name); Бистром, Антон Антонович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Baltic baron and cavalry general of the Imperial Russian Army
DATE OF BIRTH	June 18, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rappel
DATE OF DEATH	March 22, 1854
Place of death	Nikol'skoye , Tambov Oblast

[1] Life Guard Artillery Regiment: ru: Лейб-гвардии Конная артиллерия # Командный состав

[2] Nikolskoje: ru: Никольское (Мичуринский район)

[3] Lodge "Alexander to the crowned pelican" In: Friedrich Heldmann, The three oldest geschichtl. Monuments of the German Freemason Brotherhood , published 1819, original from the University of Lausanne, digitized 12 Aug. 2009, p. 541 [1]