13 Facts About Ivan Paskevich

Ivan Paskevich started as an officer during the Napoleonic Wars serving in the battles of Austerlitz and Borodino.

Ivan Paskevich then helped crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Ivan Paskevich attained the rank of field marshal in the Russian army, and later in the Prussian and Austrian armies.

Ivan Paskevich's father was of the Paskevich family of Zaporozhian Cossack gentry, while his mother was a Belarusian noblewoman.

Ivan Paskevich was educated at the Page Corps, where his progress was rapid, and in 1800 received his commission in the Guards and was named aide-de-camp to the tsar.

From 1807 to 1812, Ivan Paskevich was engaged in the campaigns against the Ottomans, and distinguished himself by many brilliant and daring exploits, being made a general officer in his thirtieth year.

Ivan Paskevich wrote a memoir of some of his experiences during the Napoleonic wars.

Ivan Paskevich hoped that by the help of Mir-Fatah's high stature in the Muslim community, he could make a very valuable contribution to the Russian consolidation of power in the Caucasus.

In June 1831, after the death of Field Marshal von Diebitsch, commander of Russian troops in Congress Poland, Ivan Paskevich was appointed his successor in crushing the Polish uprising.

Ivan Paskevich was created Prince of Warsaw and awarded the office of Namestnik of the Kingdom of Poland.

In 1854 Ivan Paskevich took command of the Army of the Danube, which was then engaging the Turks in the initial stage of the conflict which evolved into the Crimean War.

Ivan Paskevich died in Warsaw, where in 1870 a memorial was erected to him before the Koniecpolski Palace.

Ivan Paskevich's remains were reburied by his son in the family mausoleum on the grounds of the Homel Palace.