See also:PRINCE See also:ALEXANDER IVANOVICH See also:BARYATINSKY (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 See also: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
.
See also: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
.
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.
Zisserman, Fieldmarshal See also:Prince A
.
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.
Baryatinski (Russ.) (See also:Moscow, 1888-1891)
.
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