Pyotr Petrovich Chigirin ( 1825 - 1897 ) - colonel of the Russian Imperial Army, hero of the defense of Sevastopol , commander of the 212th Bakhchisarai regiment , mayor of Kovel , Volyn province .
| Pyotr Petrovich Chigirin | |||||
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| Date of Birth | August 2, 1825 | ||||
| Place of Birth | Grodno Grodno province Russian empire | ||||
| Date of death | 1897 | ||||
| Place of death | Kovel Volyn province Russian empire | ||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||
| Type of army | Infantry | ||||
| Years of service | 1844-1881 | ||||
| Rank | Colonel | ||||
| Part | Newing Germanic 10th Infantry Regiment , Ukrainian 47th Infantry Regiment | ||||
| Commanded | Bakhchisarai 212nd Infantry Regiment | ||||
| Battles / wars | The revolution of 1848-1849 in Hungary ,
The Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 . | ||||
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| Retired | kovelsky mayor | ||||
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Origin and family
Pyotr Petrovich Chigirin was born in 1825 in the family of the court adviser to the Podolsk Chamber of State Property Pyotr Ivanovich Chigirin. Grandson of Ivan Petrovich Chigirin, member of the Swiss and Italian campaign A.V. Suvorov . [one]
He was brought up in a private educational institution. Included in the pedigree of the noble book of the Volyn province .
Military Service
Entered service in 1844 .
- 1844-1847 - 3rd combat engineer battalion;
- 1847-1871 - 47th Ukrainian regiment;
- In 1855, lieutenant, head of the military march printing house of the headquarters of the military ground forces and naval forces in the Crimea .
- 1871-1881 - 10th New Germanic Regiment;
- 1879 - For the differences in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. promoted to colonel.
- 1881 - commander of the 212nd Infantry Bakhchisarai Regiment
In September 1881 he resigned.
Military Companies
Member of companies:
- Hungarian in 1849 ;
- Turetsky in 1853-1854 (participant in the defense of Sevastopol , participated in the battle on the Black River on August 4);
- Polish in 1863 ;
- Turkish in 1877-1878 .
Civil Service
After his resignation in 1881, he held the post of mayor of Kovel in the Volyn province for about 10 years. According to confirmed data: from 1887 to 1895 .
Rewards
- Order of St. Vladimir (Order of September 22, 1874)
- Order of St. Anne
- St. Stanislaus
- Silver medal "For the defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855"
- Silver medal "For the pacification of Hungary and Transylvania"
- Bronze medal "In memory of the war of 1853-1856."
- Bronze medal "For the suppression of the Polish rebellion of 1863-1864."
- Bronze medal "In memory of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878"
Literature
- Volyn Provincial Gazette, No. 11 of 02/08/1889 (Extracts from the magazines of the Kovel City Council)
- Address-calendar of the Volyn province for 1892, Zhytomyr, 1892
- Pirozhnikov A.I. History of the 10th Infantry Novoingermanlandsky regiment. Tula, 1913 at Runivers site [2]
- Sevastopol residents. A collection of portraits of participants in the defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1855. Published by P.F. Rerberg, 1901