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See also:MENSHIKOV, See also:ALEXANDER SERGEIEVICH, See also:PRINCE (1787-1869) , See also:great-See also:grandson of the preceding, was See also:born on the zsth of See also:September 1787, and entered the See also:Russian service as attache to the See also:embassy at See also:Vienna. He accompanied the See also:emperor Alexander throughout his See also:campaigns against See also:Napoleon, and retired from See also:army service in 1823. He then devoted himself
. The Solov'evs were three See also:brothers ostensibly employed by the Russian See also:government to See also:ship See also:corn from See also:Russia and sell it at Amster-See also:dam. As a See also:matter of fact they were at the See also:head of a See also:combination for selling Menshikov's corn in preference to the corn of the Russian government and the bulk of the proceeds went into Menshikov's pockets. From 1709 to 1711 they had exported almost as much of Menshikov's corn as of that of the government, though the export of any corn from Russia, except in See also:account of the See also:Treasury, was a See also:capital offence. The affair dragged on from. 1713 to 1716, when the examination of the Solov'evs' books, and the subsequent application of See also:torture, revealed the fact that the Solov'evs had systematically robbed the Treasury of 675,000 roubles (I rouble then = 5s.) and had accumulated a See also:fortune of See also:half a million. For full details see Nisbet See also:Bain, The first Romanovs, pp. 327-329.to See also:naval matters, became an See also:admiral in 1834, and put the Russian See also:navy, which had fallen into decay during the reign of Alexander, on an efficient footing. At the 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 of the dispute as to the See also:Holy Places he was sent on a See also:special See also:mission to See also:Constantinople, and when the See also:Crimean See also:war See also:broke out he was appointed See also:commander-in-See also:chief by See also:land and See also:sea. He commanded the Russian army at the See also:Alma and in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field operations See also:round See also:Sevastopol. In See also:March 1855 he was recalled, ostensibly and perhaps really, on account of failing See also:health. He died on the 2nd of May 1868 at St See also:Petersburg.
End of Article: MENSHIKOV, ALEXANDER SERGEIEVICH, PRINCE (1787-1869)
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