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PRINCE MIKHAIL DMITRIEVICH (2795-186I)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRINCE MIKHAIL DMITRIEVICH (2795-186I)  ,
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brother of the last named, entered the
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Russian army in 1807 and took
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part in the
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campaigns against
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Persia in 181o, and in 1812-1815 against France . During the Russo-
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Turkish War of 1828—x829 he was
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present at the sieges of Silistria and Shumla . After being appointed, in 183o, a general officer, he was present in the
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campaign in Poland, and was wounded at the
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battle of Grochow, on the 25th of
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February 1831 . He also distinguished himself at the battle of Ostrolenka and at the taking of Warsaw . For these services he was promoted to the rank of
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lieutenant-general . In 1846 he was nominated military governor of Warsaw . In 1849 he commanded the Russian artillery in the war against the Hungarians, and in 1852 he visited
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London as a representative of the Russian army at the funeral of the duke of Wellington . At this time he was chief of the staff of the Russian army and adjutant-general to the
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tsar . Upon Russia declaring war against
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Turkey in 1853, he was appointed
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commander-in-chief of the troops which occupied
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Moldavia and Wallachia . In 1854 he crossed the Danube and besieged Silistria, but was superseded in
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April by Prince Paskevich, who, however, resigned on the 8th of
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June, when Gorchakov resumed the command . In
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July the siege of Silistria was raised, and the Russian armies recrossed the Danube; in August they withdrew to Russia . In 1855 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in the Crimea in place of Prince Menshikov .

Gorchakov's

defence of Sevastopol, and final retreat to the
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northern part of the
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town, which he continued to defend till peace was signed in Paris, were conducted with skill and energy . In 1856 he was appointed governor-general of Poland in 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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