Leviz, Fedor Fedorovich

Comes from German Livonian nobles. Ancestors moved to the Baltic States from Scotland in 1630 and were officers of the Kingdom of Sweden. Father - Reinhold Friedrich von Löwis ( German: Reinhold Friedrich von Löwis ), major general of the Russian army, mother Dorothea Elizabeth (1744-1799), nee Clapier.

He began active service as lieutenant of the Revel infantry regiment in 1782; in 1783 he was promoted to lieutenant, and in 1786 he transferred to the Narva Infantry Regiment and, commanding a company in it, took part in the war with Sweden in 1788–90, where he performed a number of feats. In the battle of Friedrichsham, an attack on the right wing of the Swedes, he contributed to their defeat; under strong enemy fire, destroyed the bridge on the Kumen River (rank of captain); an attack at night captured with his company and 160 hunters of other regiments the Swedish battery (rank of second major); with 2 companies he crossed the loose ice of Lake Saimaa; stormed the fortified village of Kumbarando, then attacked the enemy battery and captured 1 gun and 30 lower ranks (the rank of prime minister).

Appointed by the commander of one of the grenadier battalions in the army, General Krechetnikov, Leviz took part in the war with Poland in 1791 and stood out as a dashing partisan. Having formed a flying detachment of 2 grenadier companies, 60 rangers, a squadron of dragoons, a squadron of hussars and hundreds of Cossacks, he seized Vilna with daring swoop and then participated in the defeat of the Confederates near metro Granno.

In the campaign of 1794, Leviz defeated Grabovsky’s detachment near Vilna, made his way with 6 companies in 7 thousand. Yasinsky’s detachment, with which he recaptured 3 guns, participated in a night battle near Soll, near Smorgon, and in the storming of Vilna, defeated the Poles at Vilkomir and for the differences in affairs with the Poles received the rank of sub-colonel, order of St. George 4 degrees and a golden sword .

At the end of the war, Leviz served in Riga. and Samogit. Carabinieri pp., in 1798 b. desig com rum Riga. cuirass. p. to the regiment, and in 1799 - to the city of m., with the appointment of the chief of Kazan. cuirass. regiment, named after him, but in 1800 set aside by Imp. Paul from the service. In 1801, he again b. hired and appointed by com. Yekaterinoslav. cuirassier item, but in 1802, due to illness, retired; in 1805 he re-entered the service, b. desig Chef Yaroslav. musket. the regiment and valiantly fought with him near Austerlitz ( Order of St. Vladimir 3 tbsp.). In the campaign of 1806-07. Leviz, commanding the Av-rd of k-s Essen 1st, all the time disturbed the arch, participated in the battle of the Island and in a number of other matters. Produced in 1807 in the city of L., Leviz b. desig Commander of the 10th Division, participated with her in a campaign in Galicia in 1809) and in 1810 b. desig to the Moldavian army, having received in command of the cc as part of 8 battalions, 24 esc. and 24 op., with the Crimea and participated in battles near Shumlya. A serious illness again forced Leviz to resign.

With the beginning of the Patriotic War of 1812, he again entered the service and, commanding the department. detachment in the K-ce gene. Essen, defended Livonia from Prussia. troops corps gene. York, especially heroic. defense metro Ekau and the attack on the Pruss in the village. Kekau (Order of St. George 3 tbsp.). Campaign 1813 Leviz, on behalf of gr. Wittgenstein overlaid Danzig and led his blockade until the arrival of the comrade blockade. to-sa pr. Alexander Württemberg. After the captain of the capital, Leviz was awarded evil. a sword with diamonds and the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky .

Appointed Commander 25th Infantry. Dzii, Leviz in 1814 resigned, lived in Dorpat, was the leader of Livonia. courtyards and mind. in 1824 after Leviz there were informative notes about all the wars in which he participated (the blockade and siege of Danzig were described in particular detail), and a number of essays on fortification, botany, technology and agriculture, several. "Humorous articles" and a number of translations on it. Language Russian., French. and English. classics (all in a hand.). A true warrior, he raised his sons as warriors and took them with him in trenches and parallels near Danzig.

Wife from 1797 - Johann Wilhelmina (1779-1831), daughter of Baron Moritz Posse, was the unmarried sister of Natalia Ivanovna Zagryazhskaya , mother of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina . ^[2] They had 12 children, of which five survived. She was buried with her husband at the family cemetery in Salisberg . ^[3]

• Dictionary of Russian generals, participants in the hostilities against the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812-1815. // Russian archive. The history of the Fatherland in the evidence and documents of the XVIII — XX centuries. : Collection. - M .: TRITE studio N. Mikhalkova , 1996. - T. VII . - S. 451 . - ISSN 0869-20011 . (Comm. A. A. Podmazo )