Sergey Nikolaevich Ermolov ( 1798 - 1856 ) - Lieutenant General, Tiflis and Vitebsk Governor.
| Sergey Nikolaevich Ermolov | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | June 18, 1798 |
| Date of death | July 9, 1856 (58 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow Russian empire |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire |
| Type of army | infantry |
| Rank | lieutenant general |
| Commanded | 29th Jaeger Regiment , Brest Infantry Regiment , 1st Brigade of the 6th Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade of the 5th Infantry Division, 1st Brigade of the 18th Infantry Division |
| Battles / wars | Caucasian war The Russian-Persian war of 1826-1828 , The Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829 |
| Awards and prizes | Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (1825), Golden weapon “For courage” (1826), Order of St. Stanislav 1st art. (1848), Order of St. George , 4th art. (1848) |
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Family
Came from the nobility of the Moscow province [1] , the son of Major General Nikolai Alekseevich Ermolov and his wife Alexandra Petrovna nee Khlopova, was born on July 18, 1798.
His brothers Peter and Dmitry were major generals. The Commander-in-Chief in Georgia and a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire, Alexei Petrovich Ermolov, was cousin to Sergei Nikolaevich.
Service
He entered the military service in 1815 as a column-leader in the retinue of His Imperial Majesty for the quartermaster unit, in 1817, after graduating from the School of Colonists, he was promoted to ensign and transferred to the Guards General Staff in 1821.
Since 1822, Ermolov was in the Caucasus , where he constantly took part in campaigns against the highlanders . So in his first year in the Caucasus, he distinguished himself against the Kabardinians , the next year he was on a campaign in Dagestan . In the campaign of 1825 in Chechnya he was wounded with a rifle bullet in his right hand and was shell-shocked in his right leg, for the difference he received the rank of lieutenant and the order of St. 4th degree Vladimir with a bow.
Since 1826, Ermolov was in the Persian campaign and for the difference near Ganja he was promoted to headquarters captain . The following year, he was besieged by the fortress of Abbas Abad. For the battle of Dzhevan-bulak, in which the army of Abbas-Mirza was defeated, Yermolov was granted a golden sword with the inscription "For courage" on October 2. He finished this year under Tauris .
In 1828, Ermolov fought with the Turks , for the difference in the assault on Kars, he received the rank of captain, then he was in business under Khertvis and during the assault of Akhaltsykh . In April 1829, he was sent to the 2nd Army at the Danube War Theater. There he was during the movement of the main forces of the army from Shumly to Kamchik, participated in the assault on fortifications near the village of Keprikey . Crossing the Balkans , Ermolov was at the battle of Andos, where the army of Ibrahim Pasha was defeated. Then he participated in the assault on Slivno and the occupation of Adrianople . For the differences in the Balkans, Yermolov was promoted to colonel .
Upon returning to Russia, Yermolov was again on a campaign, this time against the Poles.
Since 1832, Ermolov served in the 32nd Jaeger Regiment , but in the same year he was transferred to the 29th Jaeger Regiment , where he took the post of commander. Upon the abolition in 1833 of numbered jaeger regiments, Yermolov moved to the Ryazan jaeger regiment and in the same year was sent to the Model Infantry Regiment, and in 1834 he was appointed commander of the Brest Infantry Regiment .
In production in 1839, Major General Ermolov took command of the 1st Brigade of the 6th Infantry Division , from 1842 he commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 5th Infantry Division, and from 1845 - the 1st Brigade of the 18th Infantry Division .
In 1846, Ermolov was enlisted in the army and appointed Georgian-Imereti Civil Governor, in 1847 renamed the Tiflis Military Governor and the manager of the civilian unit, in 1848 he received the Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree and November 26 of the same year for the immaculate length of service was awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree (No. 7934 according to the cavalier list of Grigorovich - Stepanov).
October 3, 1849 was appointed to the post of Vitebsk military and civil governor . In 1851 he was promoted to lieutenant general and in 1854 he retired.
He died in Moscow on July 9, 1856, was buried in the cemetery of the Pokrovsky monastery.
Sources
- Acts collected by the Caucasian Archaeographic Commission . T. X.
- Volkov S.V. Generality of the Russian Empire. Encyclopedic dictionary of generals and admirals from Peter I to Nicholas II. Volume I. AK. M., 2009
- Ismailov E.E. Golden weapon with the inscription "For courage." Lists of gentlemen 1788-1913. M., 2007
- Russian genealogy book published by Prince Peter Dolgoruky. Part 4. St. Petersburg., 1857
- Stepanov V.S., Grigorovich P.I. In memory of the centennial of the imperial Military Order of the Holy Great Martyr and Victorious George. (1769-1869). SPb., 1869
Notes
- ↑ Moscow nobility. Alphabetical list of noble families with a brief indication of the most important documents found in the genealogy of the Archives of the Moscow Noble Assembly of Deputies . - Moscow: Type. L.V. Pozhidaeva, 1910 .-- S. 149. - 614 p.