Pyotr Kakhovsky was born in 1799 in Smolensk Governorate to a retired collegiate assessor from an impoverished Polish noble family Kakowski h Kosciesza, Gregori Alekseyevich Kakhovsky, and his wife from the Smolensk branch of the noble family Olenin, Nimfodora Mikhailovna Kakhovskaya.
12 Facts About Pyotr Kakhovsky
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Pyotr Kakhovsky had five brothers, Aleksey, Vasily, Ivan, Platon, who all died before 1820, and Nikolay.
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Pyotr Kakhovsky started his military career as a Junker at Leib Guard Ranger Regiment in March 1816.
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Pyotr Kakhovsky became an active member of the Northern Society of the Decembrists and an assistant to Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev.
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Pyotr Kakhovsky was the founder of the Decembrist section in Grenadier regiment.
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However, the next day, the actual day of the revolt, Pyotr Kakhovsky hesitated and decided that the religion did not allow him to kill the emperor.
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Pyotr Kakhovsky shot and fatally wounded the governor of Saint Petersburg and a popular hero of the Napoleonic Wars, General Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich, who attempted to pacify the Decembrists troops and prevent the bloodletting.
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Pyotr Kakhovsky killed the commander of the Life-guard grenadier regiment colonel Ludwig Niklaus von Sturler who went to the Senate Square to persuade his soldiers not to take part in the uprising, and wounded another officer Gastfer.
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Pyotr Kakhovsky argued before the Investigating Commission, that the high-handedness of the bureaucracy, the lack of respect for ancient gentry freedom, and the favoritism shown to foreigners had been the primary cause of the suppressed uprising.
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Pyotr Kakhovsky was one of the five, sentenced to death by quartering, but later the tsar replaced this cruel punishment by hanging.
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Pyotr Kakhovsky's grandniece Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary militant and became a terrorist: in 1918 she collaborated in the assassination of the German governor of Ukraine Hermann von Eichhorn, and actively worked in two failed attempts on the lives of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi and General Anton Denikin.
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Pyotr Kakhovsky spent most of her life in Tsarist and Soviet prisons, or in internal exile.