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See also:PASKEVICH, See also:IVAN FEDOROVICH (1782-1856) , See also:count of See also:Erivan, See also:prince of See also:Warsaw, See also:Russian 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, descended from an old and wealthy See also:family, was See also:born at See also:Poltava on the
19th (8th) of May 1782. He was educated at the imperial
institution for pages, where his progress was rapid, and in
1800 received his See also:commission in the See also:Guards and was named aide-de-See also:camp to the See also:tsar. His first active service was in 1805, in the See also:auxiliary See also:army sent to the assistance of See also:Austria against See also:France, when he took See also:part in the See also:battle of See also:Austerlitz. From x8o7 to 1812 he was engaged in the See also:campaigns against See also:Turkey, and distinguished himself by many brilliant and daring exploits, being made a See also:general officer in his thirtieth See also:year. During the See also:French See also:War of 1812—14 he was See also:present, in command of the 26th See also:division of See also:infantry, at all the most important engagements; at the battle of See also:Leipzig he won promotion to the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-general. On the outbreak of war with See also:Persia in 1826 he was appointed second in command, and, succeeding in the following year to the See also:chief command, gained rapid and brilliant successes which compelled the shah to See also:sue for See also:peace in See also:February
1828. In See also:reward of his services he was named by the See also:emperor count of Erivan, and received a million of roubles and a See also:diamond-mounted See also:sword. From Persia he was sent to Turkey in See also:Asia, and, having captured in rapid See also:succession the See also:principal fortresses, he was at the end of the See also:campaign made a field marshal at the See also:age of See also:forty-seven. In 183o he subdued the mountaineers of See also:Daghestan. In 1831 he was entrusted with the command of the army sent to suppress the revolt of See also:Poland, and after the fall of Warsaw, which gave the See also:death-See also:blow to See also:Polish See also:independence, he was raised to the dignity of prince of Warsaw, and created See also:viceroy of the See also:kingdom of Poland. On the outbreak of the insurrection of See also:Hungary in 1848 he was appointed to the command of the Russian troops sent to the aid of Austria, and finally compelled the surrender of the Hungarians at Vilfigos. In See also:April 1854 he again took the field in command of the army of the See also:Danube, but on the 9th of See also:June, at See also:Silistria, where he suffered defeat, he received a contusion which compelled him to retire from active service. He died on the 13th (1st) of February 1856 at Warsaw, where in 1869 a memorial was erected to him. He held the rank of field marshal in the Prussian and See also:Austrian armies as well as in his own service.
See See also:Tolstoy, Essai biographique et historique sur le feld-marechal Prince de Varsovie (See also:Paris, 1835) ; See also:Notice biographique sur le Marechal Paskivitch (Leipzig, 1856) ; and Prince Stcherbatov's See also:Life (St See also:Petersburg, 1888—1894).
End of Article: PASKEVICH, IVAN FEDOROVICH (1782-1856)
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