Mikhail A. Arseniev 1st (1779/1780 - November 6, 1838 , Tula province.) - Major General, hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 .
| Mikhail Andreevich Arseniev | ||||||||||
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 Portrait of M.A. Arsenyev workshop [1] of George Dow . Military Gallery of the Winter Palace , State Hermitage Museum ( St. Petersburg ) | ||||||||||
| Date of Birth | 1779 | |||||||||
| Date of death | November 6, 1838 | |||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||||||||
| Rank | major general | |||||||||
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Biography
- 1791 - Recorded by the Wahmistra in the Horse Life Guards Regiment .
- June 1796 - Entered into active service as a private cavalry guard .
- November 1797 - Upon the abolition of the cavalry guards, he returned to the Horse Guards.
- July 10, 1799 - Cornet .
- August 12, 1807 - Colonel .
- May 6, 1811 - February 6-6, 1813 - Acting Commander of the Life Guards of the Horse Regiment .
- 1812 - Participated in the Patriotic War, in the battles of Vitebsk, Smolensk. He distinguished himself at Borodino , where he was heavily shell-shocked in his left shoulder. For courage shown on November 21, he was awarded the Order of St. George IV Class No. 1088
in retaliation of zealous service and distinction rendered in the battle against the French troops of August 18, 26 at the village of Borodino, where, having built L.- Guards under carte shots The cavalry regiment, with exemplary courage, attacked the enemy and knocked it over, and received a shell shock from the nucleus in the left shoulder.
Participated in the battles of Tarutin, Maloyaroslavets, Red.
- December 26, 1812 - Major General .
- February 6, 1813 - Commander of the Life Guards of the Horse Regiment and (from October 4) the head of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Cuirassier Division.
- 1813-1814 - Participated in foreign campaigns of the Russian army. He distinguished himself in the battles of Kulm (awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the III degree) and Fer-Champenoise (the brigade repelled 12 enemy guns). He was awarded the orders of St. Anne I degree, Austrian Leopold II degree, Prussian Red Eagle II degree and Bavarian Maximilian Joseph III degree.
- 1816 - Awarded the insignia of the Prussian Military Order of the Iron Cross (the so-called Kulm Cross).
- January 16, 1819 - Appointed commander of the 1st Dragoon Division.
- October 23, 1823 - He was relieved of his post and "consisted of cavalry for the disease." He was a member of the committee for the development of cavalry regulations. He dealt with issues of supply and interaction with civil authorities.
- The end of 1830 - "The trustee for the adoption of preliminary measures for cholera in the Tula district."
- December 30, 1833 - Retired with a uniform and full pension.
- He died of pneumonia in his Tula estate.
Wife - Ekaterina Semenovna Gorlenko (1784-01.04.1855), the marriage was childless and unsuccessful, she lived separately from her husband in his estate Romanovschina of Chernihiv province. Died of pneumonia in Wiesbaden [2] , buried in Paris on Montmartre .
Notes
- ↑ State Hermitage Museum. Western European painting. Catalog / Ed. V. F. Levinson-Lessing; ed. A. E. Krol , K. M. Semenova. - 2nd edition, revised and supplemented. - L .: Art, 1981. - T. 2. - S. 256, cat. No. 8018. - 360 p.
- ↑ TsGIA SPb. f.19. Op. 123. d.11. S. 102.
Links
- 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. 300-301 . - ISSN 0869-20011 . (Comm. A. A. Podmazo )
- Arsenyev V.S.- Genus of the Arsenyev noblemen. 1389-1901. Tula, 1903 PDF (inaccessible link)