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PRINCE MIKHAIL DMITRIEVICH (2795-186I)

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PRINCE MIKHAIL DMITRIEVICH (2795-186I) , See also:brother of the last named, entered the See also:Russian See also:army in 1807 and took See also:part in the See also:campaigns against See also:Persia in 181o, and in 1812-1815 against See also:France. During the Russo-See also:Turkish See also:War of 1828—x829 he was See also:present at the sieges of See also:Silistria and See also:Shumla. After being appointed, in 183o, a See also:general officer, he was present in the See also:campaign in See also:Poland, and was wounded at the See also:battle of Grochow, on the 25th of See also:February 1831. He also distinguished himself at the battle of Ostrolenka and at the taking of See also:Warsaw. For these services he was promoted to the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-general. In 1846 he was nominated military See also:governor of Warsaw. In 1849 he commanded the Russian See also:artillery in the war against the Hungarians, and in 1852 he visited See also:London as a representative of the Russian army at the funeral of the See also:duke of See also:Wellington. At this See also:time he was See also:chief of the See also:staff of the Russian army and See also:adjutant-general to the See also:tsar. Upon See also:Russia declaring war against See also:Turkey in 1853, he was appointed See also:commander-in-chief of the troops which occupied See also:Moldavia and Wallachia. In 1854 he crossed the See also:Danube and besieged Silistria, but was superseded in See also:April by Prince See also:Paskevich, who, however, resigned on the 8th of See also:June, when See also:Gorchakov resumed the command. In See also:July the See also:siege of Silistria was raised, and the Russian armies recrossed the Danube; in See also:August they withdrew to Russia. In 1855 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in the See also:Crimea in See also:place of Prince See also:Menshikov.

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defence of See also:Sevastopol, and final See also:retreat to the See also:northern part of the See also:town, which he continued to defend till See also:peace was signed in See also:Paris, were conducted with skill and See also:energy. In 1856 he was appointed governor-general of Poland in See also:succession to Prince Paskevich. He died at Warsaw on the 3oth of May 1861, and was buried, in accordance with his own wish, at Sevastopol.

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