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See also:BARYATINSKY, See also:ALEXANDER IVANOVICH, See also:PRINCE (1814-1879) ,See also:Russian soldier and See also:governor of the See also:Caucasus, was privately educated, entered the school of the ensigns of the Guard in his seventeenth See also:year and, on the 8th of See also:November 1833, received his commissionof See also:cornet in the See also:Life See also:Guards of the See also:cesarevich Alexander. In 1835 he served with See also:great gallantry in the Caucasus, and on his return to St See also:Petersburg was rewarded with a See also:gold See also:sword " for valour." On the first of See also:January 1836 he was attached to the See also:suite of Alexander, and in 1845 was again ordered off to the Caucasus and again most brilliantly distinguished himself, especially in the attack on See also:Shamyl's stronghold, for which he received the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of St See also:George, In 1846 he assisted
Fieldmarshal Paskievich to suppress the See also:Cracow rising. From 1848 to 1856 he took a leading See also:part in all the See also:chief imlitary events in the Caucasus, his most notable exploits being his victory at Mezeninsk in 185o and his operations against Shamyl at Chechen. His energetic and at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time systematic See also:tactics inaugurated a new era of See also:mountain warfare. On the 6th of January 1853 he was appointed See also:adjutant-See also:general and, on See also:July 5th of the same year, chief of the See also:staff. In 1854 he took part in the brilliant Kiiriik Pere See also:campaign. On the 1st of January 1856 he became See also:commander-in-chief of the Caucasian See also:army, and, subsequently, governor of the Caucasus. As an See also:administrator he showed himself fully worthy of his high reputation. Within three years of his See also:appointment, the whole of the eastern Caucasus was subdued and the See also:long elusive Shamyl was taken See also:captive. Baryatinsky also conquered many of the tribes of the western Caucasus dwelling between the See also:rivers Laba and Byelaya. For these fresh services he was created a fieldmarshal. But his See also:health was now entirely broken by his strenuous labours, and on the 6th of See also:December 1862 he was, at his own See also:request, relieved of his See also:post.
He spent the last days of his life abroad and died at See also:Geneva, after See also:forty-eight years of active service.
See A. L. Zisserman, Fieldmarshal Prince A. I. Baryatinski (Russ.) (See also:Moscow, 1888-1891).
End of Article: BARYATINSKY, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH, PRINCE (1814-1879)
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