Pavel Wassiljewitsch Tschitschagow
Pavel Chichagov ( Russian Павел Васильевич Чичагов ., Scientific transliteration Pavel Vasil'evič Čičagov * June 27 . Jul / 8. July 1767 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † August 20 jul. / 1. September 1849 greg. In Paris ) was a Russian admiral .
Life
Pavel was the son of Admiral Vasily Chichagov . He joined the imperial fleet in 1772 as his father's adjutant and took part in the Russo-Swedish War as a ship commander from 1788 to 1790 . After a stay abroad in England in 1792/93, he joined the retinue of Tsar Alexander I in 1801 and was Minister of the Navy in his government from December 1802 to 1811.
He became an admiral in 1807 and took command of the Moldavian Army in the Patriotic War of 1812 after Kutuzov . With this he went to Volhynia to stop the retreat of the French from Moscow . However, he could not prevent their passage over the Berezina . He was then reprimanded and ceded his command to Barclay de Tolly . Chichagov was retired and then went abroad. He lived in France and Italy and wrote his memoirs there, which were published in Berlin in 1855 and in Russia in 1869/70.
In 1834 he was asked - like all Russians abroad - to return to Russia and, when he did not obey, robbed of his goods. He was then naturalized in England.
Pavel Wassiljewitsch Tschitschagow died on September 1, 1849.
Works
- Retreat of Napoleon . London ( 1817 )
- Mémoires inédits . Berlin ( 1855 , posthumous )
Web links
- Article Pawel Wassiljewitsch Tschitschagow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Tschitschagow, Pavel Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Чичагов, Павел Васильевич (Russian); Čičagov, Pavel Vasil'evič (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1767 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1849 |
| Place of death | Paris |