Wassili Ossipowitsch Bebutow

Wassili Ossipowitsch Bebutow, lithograph by August Strixner , ca.1849

Vasili Bebutov ( Russian Василий Осипович Бебутов * 1792 in Tbilisi † 10; ^jul. / 22. March  1858 ^greg. ) Was a from a Armenian -derived family Prince and General of the Russian army .

Life

Vasily Ossipowitsch Bebutow was educated in the cadet house in Saint Petersburg , served as an officer in the army in the Caucasus and fought against the French in Livonia in 1812 . In 1816 he became adjutant to Prince Alexei Petrovich Yermolov and went in his wake to Persia , where he worked as an interpreter and contributed to the subjugation of the Kasikumy Khanate . In 1821 he was colonel and commander of the Mingrelian hunter regiment and in 1825 governor of Imereti .

At the outbreak of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1828 , he distinguished himself as a major general in the storming of Akhaltsikhe , was given command of the city, which he successfully defended against the Turks under Akhmed Pasha. In 1831 he became commander in chief of the Armenian provinces, in 1838 a member of the council of the highest administration of the Caucasian countries, in 1842 commander of Zamość in Poland, in 1843 lieutenant general and in 1844 commander in chief in Dagestan . After having fought against Imam Shamil for three years with alternating luck , he was appointed President of the Administrative Council of the Transcaucasian Countries in November 1847 , which he remained until the outbreak of the Crimean War .

Crimean War

During the Crimean War he commanded a corps of the Caucasian army and at its head he was victorious on December 1, 1853 in the battle of Basgedikler over the Seraskier Abdi Pascha , which thwarted the intended invasion of the Turks into Russian Armenia. On August 5, 1854 he was again victorious at Kurukdere over Zarif Mustafa Pascha. But he failed to use the dissolution of the Turkish army and to advance quickly to Kars .

In the campaign of 1855 charged with defending Greece , after Omar Pasha's landing in Mingrelia a troop corps quickly gathered in Kutaisi and forced the Serdar to retreat. After Murawiev's dismissal, he led the supreme command of the Caucasian army until Prince Baryatinsky arrived , then returned to his administrative post and was promoted to general of the infantry in January 1857 .

His brother was David Ossipowitsch Bebutow .

literature

• A. Polowzow: Russkij biografitscheskj slowar. Tom II . Isd. Imperatorskago Russkago istoritscheskago obschtschestwa, 1900, pp. 623–626. (Russian)