Prince Nikolai Ivanovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky , 2nd ( July 5 ( 17 ), 1833 - October 15 ( 27 ), 1898 ) - commander of the Russian Empire , cavalry general .
| Nikolai Ivanovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky | ||||||||||||||||||
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 N. I. Svyatopolk-Mirsky (1877) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | July 17, 1833 | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire | |||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | October 27, 1898 (65 years old) | |||||||||||||||||
| A place of death | estate Mir , Novogrudok district , Minsk province | |||||||||||||||||
| Type of army | infantry | |||||||||||||||||
| Rank | cavalry general | |||||||||||||||||
| Commanded | Tenginsky 77th Infantry Regiment Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment | |||||||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | Russian-Turkish war (1877-1878) | |||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Nikolai Ivanovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky was the youngest of three sons from his father’s second marriage with a writer and translator Marciana from the Nostits-Yatskovsky family (1807-1853).
In 1843-1852 he studied at the Page Corps .
Since 1853 he participated in hostilities during the Crimean War ; Lieutenant N.I. Svyatopolk-Mirsky was awarded the Order of St. George of the 4th degree on December 28, 1854.
In the campaign of 1857-1861 he received the rank of captain and order of St. Stanislav of the 2nd art. with swords and St. Anne 2nd art. with swords.
In 1860, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he was appointed an aide-adjutant to His Majesty.
Since 1861 - commander of the Tenginsky Infantry Regiment .
In 1862 he was already promoted to major general and appointed to the retinue of His Majesty.
In 1867, he was appointed commander of the Life Guards Semyonovsky Regiment .
Since 1873 - commander of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Guards Infantry Division . Since 1876 - Lieutenant General, Head of the 9th Infantry Division .
He participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 as an adjutant general. He distinguished himself in the battles of Plevna and Shipka . He became famous for organizing a “throw” through the Balkans to help the corps of General F.F. Radetsky , for whom Lieutenant General N.I. Svyatopolk-Mirsky was awarded the Order of St. George of the 3rd degree and a golden weapon with the inscription “For Courage” on January 31, 1878 ".
| "In retribution of the excellent courage and discretion shown in crossing the Balkans and in the battle with the Turks on December 28, 1877, at Shipka." |
From 1881 to 1898 - the military ataman of the Don Army .
In 1891, he purchased from Princess Maria Lvovna Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
... free of bail and banned part of the property of his own real estate named after the local name Zamirye, located in the Minsk governorate of the Novogrudok district, which she inherited after the death of the adjutant-general Prince Peter Lvovich Sain-Wittgenstein Berleburg [1] [2]
- NIAB. F. 183, Op. 11, D. 3560.
Since 1898 - Member of the Council of State .
He died on his estate Mir and was buried there, against the wall of the Orthodox Nikolaev Church.
Family
In 1860 he married Princess Vera Ilyinichna (1842-1863), the daughter of the Georgian Tsarevich Ilya Georgievich , from whom he had a son, Ilya, who died immediately after birth; soon his wife died.
In 1868, "in the presence of the imperial couple," Nikolai Ivanovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky married Cleopatra Mikhailovna Khanykova (1845-1910), daughter of Colonel Mikhail Nikolayevich Khanykov and Sofia Vasilyevna Engelhardt ; cavalier lady of the Order of St. Catherine 2 tbsp. They had seven sons: Mikhail (1870-1938), Ivan (1872-1921), Dmitry (1874-1950), Vladimir (1875-1906), Semyon (1885-1917), as well as Vasily and Peter, who died early childhood.
Rewards
Russian Empire:
- Order of St. Anne of the 4th degree (1854)
- Order of St. George 4th degree (1854)
- Order of St. Stanislav of the 2nd degree with the Imperial crown and swords (1861)
- Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree with swords (1863)
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1868)
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1872)
- Order of St. Anne 1st degree with swords (1877)
- Order of St. George 3rd degree (1877)
- Golden weapon “For courage” with diamonds (1877)
- Order of St. Vladimir , 2nd degree (1881)
- Order of the White Eagle (1883)
- Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1887)
- Diamond signs to the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1893)
- Order of St. Vladimir 1st degree (1896)
Foreign countries:
- Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class with a star and swords (1874)
- Austrian Imperial Austrian Order of Franz Joseph , Grand Cross (1874)
- Swedish Order of the Sword , big cross (1875)
- Persian Order of Leo and Sun , big cross (1891)
Notes
- ↑ Peter (Peter-Dominic-Ludwig) Lvovich Wittgenstein (1832-1887), adjutant general, lieutenant general, grandson of Field Marshal P.H. Wittgenstein died childless and his sister Maria (Antoinette-Carolina-Stefania) inherited the estate (1829-1898).
- ↑ Perhaps one of the motives for Svyatopolk-Mirsky’s acquisition of this Radziwill heritage was the coincidence of their family name and the town’s name - the ancestors of Svyatopolk-Mirsky had no relation to it, although they were attributed to the nobles of the Minsk province .
Literature
- Almanac of modern Russian statesmen . - SPb. : Type of. Isidore Goldberg, 1897 .-- S. 1201.