Mikhail Pavlovich Tuchkov (1832-1890) - lieutenant general of the Russian army, a participant in the Crimean War , participated in the suppression of the Polish uprising .
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| Date of Birth | July 24 ( August 5 ) 1832 | |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg | |
| Date of death | September 13 (25), 1890 (58 years old) | |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg | |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |
| Rank | lieutenant general | |
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| Communications | father Pavel Alekseevich Tuchkov , mother Elizaveta Ivanovna Veregina, brother Nikolai Pavlovich Tuchkov , grandfather Alexey Alekseevich Tuchkov | |
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Biography
Born July 24 ( August 5 ), 1832 . The son of the adjutant general, the infantry general, the Moscow military governor-general Pavel Alekseevich Tuchkov .
From the pages of pages he was promoted to ensign of the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment . He participated in the Sevastopol campaign , then in subduing the Polish rebellion of 1863 , for distinction he was awarded a golden saber with the inscription "For courage" . During the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. Mikhail Pavlovich was a member of the field headquarters of the Danube Army; in the last years of his life he was a member of the State Suite. He took an active and active part in the establishment of the Moscow branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society . On his initiative, with the assistance of organized in the sixties, an orchestra of students. He was the first secretary of the Moscow brother-loving society for the supply of poor people. Mikhail Pavlovich was the founder and vice chairman of the White Cross Society.
He died on September 13 ( 25 ), 1890 after a long illness. He was buried in the cemetery of the Novodevichy Convent [1] .
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Family
Wife (08.23.1870, Karlsruhe ) - Countess Elena Fedorovna Orlova-Denisova (04.22.1843-15.05.1898), daughter of Lieutenant General Fedor Vasilyevich Orlov-Denisov . There were no children in the marriage. She was buried with her husband in Moscow at the cemetery of the Novodevichy Convent.
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Literature
- Tales for 185 years: biographies and portraits of former pages from 1711 to 1896 / collected and published by O.R. von Freiman. - Friedrichshamn: Type. Acc. Islands, 1894-1897. - [8], IV, 952 p. - S. 465-466.
- Volkov S.V. , Generals of the Russian Empire. Encyclopedic dictionary of generals and admirals from Peter I to Nicholas II. - M., 2009.