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See also:MUNNICH, BURKHARD CHRISTOPH, See also:COUNT (1683-1767) , See also:Russian soldier and statesman, was See also:horn at Neuenhuntorf, in See also:Oldenburg, in 1683, and at an See also:early See also:age entered the See also:French service. Thence he transferred successively to the armies of See also:Hesse-See also:Darmstadt and of See also:Saxony, and finally, with the See also:rank of See also:general-in-See also:chief and the See also:title of count, he joined the See also:army of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter II. of See also:Russia. In 1732 he became 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-See also:marshal and See also:president of the See also:council of See also:war. In this See also:post he did See also:good service in the re-organization of the Russian army, and founded the See also:cadet See also:corps which was destined to See also:supply the future generations of See also:officers. In 1734 he took See also:Danzig, and with 1736 began the See also:Turkish See also:campaigns which made Munnich's reputation as a soldier. Working along the shores of the See also:Black See also:Sea from the See also:Crimea, he took See also:Ochakov after a celebrated See also:siege in 1737, and in 1739 won the See also:battle of Stavutschina, and took See also:Khotin (or Choczim), and established himself firmly in See also:Moldavia. Marshal Munnich now began to take an active See also:part in See also:political affairs, the particular See also:tone of which was given by his rivalry with See also:Biron, or Bieren, See also:duke of See also:Courland. But his activity was brought to a See also:close by the revolution of 1741; he was arrested on his way to the frontier, and condemned to See also:death. Brought out forexecution, and withdrawn from the See also:scaffold, he was later sent to See also:Siberia, where he remained fcr several years, until the See also:accession of Peter III. brought about his See also:release in 1762. See also:Catherine II., who soon displaced Peter, employed the old field-marshal as director-general of the Baltic ports. He died in 1767. Feldmarschall Munnich was a See also:fine soldier of the professional type, and many future commanders, notably Loudon and See also:Lacy, served their See also:apprenticeship at Ochakov and Khotin. As a statesman he is regarded as the founder of Russian Philhellenism. He had the grade of count of the See also:Holy See also:Roman See also:Empire. The Russian 37th Dragoons See also:bear his name.
He wrote an Ebauche pour donner une idee de la forme de l'empire
Russie (See also:Leipzig, 1774), and his voluminous diaries have anpeared in various publications—Herrmann, Beitrage zur Geschichte See also:des russischen Reichs (Leipzig, 1843). See Hempel, Leben Miinnichs (See also:Bremen, 1742); Halem, Geschichte des F. M. Grafen Munnich (Oldenburg, 1803 ; 2nd ed., 1838) ; Kostomarov, Feldrrtarschall Munnich (Russische Geschichte in Biographien, v. 2).
End of Article: MUNNICH, BURKHARD CHRISTOPH, COUNT (1683-1767)
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