Baron Evgeny Evstafievich von Mengden ( 1804 - 1871 ) - Lieutenant General of the Russian Imperial Army .
| Evgeny Evstafievich von Mengden | ||||||||
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| Date of Birth | February 27 ( March 10 ) 1804 | |||||||
| Date of death | May 2 (14), 1871 (67 years old) | |||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||||||
| Type of army | Russian imperial army | |||||||
| Rank |  lieutenant general | |||||||
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Biography
Born on February 27 ( March 10 ), 1804 . The son of Baron Eustache (Gustav Georg) von Mengden and Catherine von Tiesenhausen. In 1820, after graduating from the Mitava Higher School [1] , he was identified as a junker in the 4th Estland Regiment ; since 1823 - ensign.
In 1843, he was appointed commander of the Kremenchug Jaeger Regiment ; confirmed in the post of regiment commander in 1845, along with the production of colonels . In December 1853 he was promoted to major general . In 1855 he was appointed commander of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Grenadier Division ; in 1859 - assistant to the head of the 6th Infantry Division .
In 1862, E. E. Mengden was appointed military commander of Plock , and the following year: military commander of the August Division, then - commander of the 3rd Grenadier Division and, ultimately, became available to the Commander-in-Chief of the troops in the Kingdom of Poland .
In 1870 he was promoted to lieutenant general . Died on May 2 ( 14 ), 1871 .
Family
Wife (from 10.04.1838) - Ekaterina Nikolaevna Muravyova (11.15.1818–09.03.1897), daughter of the fleet of captain Nikolai Alexandrovich Muravyov from his marriage to Alexandra Fedorovna Kozlova.
Baroness Mengden was a famous St. Petersburg beauty of the 1840s and one of her portraits was placed in the literary almanac "Morning Dawn" (1842). According to M. A. Patkul , “she had beautiful black eyes and beautiful features, she was a beautiful, kind woman, a patriot with a purely Russian soul” [2] . At the beginning of the 1860s, living with her husband in Warsaw, she was engaged in the “establishment in the province” of Orthodox churches and contributed to the creation of a Russian charity. She did not leave offspring.
Notes
- ↑ Higher mitav gymnasium ? [ specify ]
- ↑ Memoirs of M.A. Patkul. Born of the Marquise de Traverse, for three quarters of the 19th century. - St. Petersburg: A. S. Suvorin Printing House, 1903.
Sources
- Yearbook of the Russian army for 1872 . - S. 69.
- Baron Mengden Evgeny Evstafievich // List to the generals by seniority: on Jan 1. 1856 - S. 577.