Valentin Platonovich Mussin-Pushkin

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Valentin Mussin-Pushkin, Portrait of Dmitri Grigoryevich Levitsky (around 1785)

Count Walentin Platonowitsch Mussin-Pushkin ( Russian Валентин Платонович Мусин-Пушкин ; * November 25th July / December 6th  1735 greg .; † June 26th July / July 8th  1804 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian field marshal .

Life

Origin and family

Valentin came from the family of Count Mussin-Pushkin. He was the son of the Russian privy councilor and senator Count Platon Ivanovich Mussin-Pushkin (1698–1743) and Princess Maria Petrovna Cherkasskaya. He married Princess Praskovia Wasiliewna Dolgorukowa (1754-1826). The marriage resulted in a daughter and a son:

  • Anastasia Walentinovna (1774–1841), ⚭ Prince Pavel Petrovich Shcherbatov (1762–1831), privy councilor and senator
  • Wassili Walentinowitsch Mussin-Pushkin (1773–1836), Russian Ambassador to Sicily, ⚭ Countess Katarina Bruce (1776–1821)

Career

Mussin-Pushkin served in the Guard of the Imperial Russian Army from 1747 . He took part in the Seven Years' War and in 1762 was promoted to Second Rittmeister of the Guard on Horseback and a Chamberlain . In 1769 he became the real chamberlain . During the Turkish War in 1771 he operated in the Crimea . In 1775 he was lieutenant general and in 1782 he was appointed general en chef and vice-president of the war college. From 1787 he was a member of the Imperial Council . From 1788 to 1789 he commanded the troops in Finland and on the Swedish border in the Russo-Swedish War . Paul I appointed him field marshal in 1792 .

Mussin-Pushkin was bearer of the Order of St. Andrew the First Called (1786), Alexander Nevsky Order , the Order of Vladimir I Class (1790), the Order of St. George II. Class, the Order of St. Anne and of the golden sword for valor .

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SURNAME Mussin-Pushkin, Valentin Platonovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мусин-Пушкин, Валентин Платонович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian field marshal
DATE OF BIRTH 1735
DATE OF DEATH 1804
Place of death Moscow