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Pyotr Bagration

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (1765 - ) served as a Russia

Russia

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n general. He was an ethnic Georgian

Georgians

The Georgians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus, the oldest group of the South Caucasian peoples people mainly centered in Georgia , but also living in Turkey, Russia, the United States, Iran, and other countries....
and descendant of the Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
royal family of the Bagrations.

as born in 1765, in Kizlyar

Kizlyar

Kizlyar is a town in the Dagestan, Russia, located in the River delta of the Terek River 221 km northwest of Makhachkala. Population: 48,457 ; 30,000 ....
(Dagestan

Dagestan

The Republic of Dagestan , older spelling Daghestan, is a federal subjects of Russia of the Russia ....
, Northern Caucasus).

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Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (1765 - ) served as a Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n general. He was an ethnic Georgian

Georgians

Georgia (country)

Life

He was born in 1765, in Kizlyar

Kizlyar

Kizlyar is a town in the Dagestan, Russia, located in the River delta of the Terek River 221 km northwest of Makhachkala. Population: 48,457 ; 30,000 ....
(Dagestan

Dagestan

The Republic of Dagestan , older spelling Daghestan, is a federal subjects of Russia of the Russia ....
, Northern Caucasus). His father was a Georgian prince, Colonel Ivane Bagrationi. His brother Roman (Revaz) Bagrationi

Roman Bagration

Prince Roman Ivanovich Bagration was a Imperial Russia general of Georgian people origin. A scion of the Bagrationi royal family, he was a brother of Pyotr Bagration, a notable Russian commander during the Napoleonic Wars....
was also a general of the Russian army.

Bagration entered the Russian army in 1782, and served for some years in the Caucasus

Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
. He participated in the Siege of Ochakov (1788), and in the military campaign to supress the Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
Kosciuszko Uprising

Kosciuszko Uprising

The Kosciuszko Uprising was an rebellion led by Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Poland and Lithuania in 1794. It was a failed attempt to liberate Poland and Lithuania of Russian Empire influence after the Second Partition of Poland and the creation of the Confederation of Targowica....
of 1794. His merits were recognized by Suvorov

Alexander Suvorov

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov , Count Suvorov of R?mnicu Sarat, Prince of Italy, Count of Holy Roman Empire , was the fourth and last generalissimus of Russian Empire....
, whom he accompanied in the Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
and Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
campaign of 1799, winning particular distinction by the capture of the town of Brescia

Brescia

Brescia is a city in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 190,000....
.

In the wars of 1805 Bagration's achievements appeared even more brilliant. With a small rearguard he successfully resisted the repeated attacks of forces five times his own numbers at the Battle of Hollabrunn (1805), and though half his men fell, the retreat of the main army under Kutuzov

Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov

Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov was the Russian Field Marshal who defeated the Napoleon I of France Grande Arm?e during Napoleon's French invasion of Russia of Russia of 1812, the decisive turning point of the Napoleonic Wars....
was thereby secured. At Austerlitz

Battle of Austerlitz

The Battle of Austerlitz also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon I of France greatest victories, effectively destroying the Third Coalition against the First French Empire....
(2 December 1805) Bagration fought against the left wing of the French

First French Empire

The Empire of the French , also known as the Greater French Empire or First French Empire, but more commonly known as the Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France in France....
army commanded by Murat

Joachim Murat

Joachim-Napol?on Murat , Prince Murat, Grand Duke of Berg and Duchy of Cleves, Marshal of France, was King of the Two Sicilies from 1808 to 1815....
and Lannes

Jean Lannes

Jean Lannes, 1st Duc de Montebello della Battaglia, 1st Sovereign Prince de Sievers was a Marshal of France. He was one of Napoleon's most daring and talented generals....
. He fought bravely and obstinately at the battles of Eylau

Battle of Eylau

The Battle of Eylau or Battle of Preussisch-Eylau was a bloody and inconclusive battle between Napoleon I of France Grande Arm?e and a mostly Russian Empire army under Levin August, count von Bennigsen near the town of Preu?isch Eylau in East Prussia....
(7 February 1807), Heilsberg

Battle of Heilsberg

The Battle of Heilsberg took place on 10 June 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars....
(11 June 1807) and Friedland

Battle of Friedland

The Battle of Friedland saw Napoleon Bonaparte's French army decisively defeat Levin August, Count von Bennigsen's Russian army about twenty-seven miles southeast of K?nigsberg....
(14 June 1807).

During the Finnish Campaign

Finnish War

The Finnish War was fought between Kingdom of Sweden and Russian Empire from February 1808 to September 1809. As a result of the war, the eastern third of Sweden was established as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire....
of 1808, by a daring march across the frozen Gulf of Finland

Gulf of Finland

The Gulf of Finland is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea that extends between Finland and Estonia all the way to Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it....
, Bagration captured the Åland

Åland

The ?land Islands form an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. It is situated at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia and forms an Federacy, Demilitarized zone, Monoglottism Swedish language Provinces of Finland, Regions of Finland and historical provinces of Finland of Finland....
Islands, and in 1809 he led the Russian army against the Turks

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
at the battles of Rassowa and Tataritza

Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812

The Russo-Turkish War, 1806–1812 was one of Russo-Turkish Wars fought between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire....
. In 1809 he was promoted to General of Infantry.

In 1812 Bagration commanded the 2nd army of the West, and though defeated at Mogilev

Mogilev

Mahilyow is a city in eastern Belarus, about 76 km from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and 105 km from the border with Russia's Bryansk Oblast....
(23 July 1812), rejoined the main army under Barclay de Tolly

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly

Knyaz Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly , known in Russia as Mikhail Bogdanovich Barklay-de-Tolli , was a Russian Field Marshal and Minister of War during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and War of the Sixth Coalition in Europe....
, and led the left wing at the Battle of Borodino

Battle of Borodino

The Battle of Borodino , fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250,000 troops and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties....
(7 September 1812), where he received a mortal wound. He died on 24 September, in the village of Simi, which belonged to his aunt.

Honours

Tsar Nicholas I

Nicholas I of Russia

Nicholas I , , was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the List of Russian rulers. On the eve of his death, the Russian Empire reached its historical zenith spanning over 20 million square kilometres....
had a monument erected in his honour

Honour

File:Hamilton-burr-duel.jpgHonour or Honor , is the evaluation of a person's trustworthiness and social social status based on that individual's espousals and actions....
on the battlefield of Borodino. The general's remains were transferred to the place where he had fallen and remain there to this day. The grave was blown up during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
(reputedly, the local museum authorities only being able to save shreds of bone and cloth from the grave) but has since then been restored.

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
chose Bagration as the name of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
's June 22, 1944, successful offensive that defeated the German Army Group Centre

Army Group Centre

Army Group Centre was the name of two distinct Nazi Germany strategic army groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. The first Army Group Centre was created on 22 June 1941, as one of three German Army formations assigned to the Operation Barbarossa ....
and drove the forces of Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
out of what is now Belarus

Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
. After the war, the Soviet Union annexed northern East Prussia

East Prussia

East Prussia refers to the main part of the Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Sea from the 13th century to 1945. From 1772?1829 and 1878?1945, the Province of East Prussia was a province of the Germany state of Prussia....
, and the until-then German town of Preußisch Eylau—scene of the 1807 battle—was renamed Bagrationovsk

Bagrationovsk

Bagrationovsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located some 37 km south of Kaliningrad. Population: ...
in his memory.

Pronunciation

The name Bagration is not pronounced "bag-ration" as many people think when reading War and Peace for the first time. By English-speakers used to Italian names it is often pronounced "Ba-gratsi-ON," but in Russian it is pronounced bah-grah-tee-ON. The Georgian pronunciation is bah-grah-tee-on-i, with no significant stress.

Pyotr Bagration

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