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Ivane Bagration of Mukhrani (Georgian: ივანე მუხრანბატონი, Ivane Mukhranbatoni; Russian: Иван Константинович Багратион-Мухранский, Ivan Konstantinovich Bagration-Mukhransky) (February 7, 1812 – March 11, 1895) was a Georgian nobleman of the House of Mukhrani ...
Ivane Bagrationi (Georgian: ივანე ბაგრატიონი, 1730–1795), was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty from the House of Mukhrani. Ivane was a Second-Major of the Russian army although he did not know the Russian language and retired very early.
- Life
- Napoleonic Wars
- Finnish War
- French Invasion of Russia
- Tactics and Doctrine
- Honours and Legacy
- Quotes About Bagration
- See Also
- Sources
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Pyotr was born in 1765 to a prince of the Mukhrani branch of the Bagrationi dynasty, Colonel Prince Ivane Bagrationi, who was the eldest son of Prince Alexander, an illegitimate son of King Jesse of Kartli, which is now central Georgia. He studied Russian and German and was taught Persian, Turkish, Armenian, and Georgian by his father.However, unli...
Battles of Hollabrunn and Austerlitz
In the course of the War of the Third Coalition, Napoleon's defeat of General Mack's Austrian army at Ulm on 19 October 1805 led Kutuzov to consider withdrawing and uniting his forces with reinforcements arriving at Brünn. Kutuzov ordered Bagration to guard Vienna with just a single regiment to stall a possible French assault. The French marshals Murat and Lannes made a false armistice claim to position themselves near the Danube at Vienna. When the guards were distracted they rushed over the...
Battle of Eylau
General Bagration demonstrated his skills as military commander particularly during the brutal Battle of Eylau which took place in East Prussia on 7 and 8 February 1807 during the War of the Fourth Coalition. After destroying the Prussian army at Jena-Auerstedt (October 1806), Napoleon was pursuing Russian forces under Marshal Kamensky. In a series of inconclusive clashes, the French did not reach their ultimate goal of destroying the enemy, while the Russians successfully continued retreatin...
Initial assault
During the Finnish War from 1808 to 1809 Bagration commanded the 21st division of the Russian forces under Buxhoeveden. Not wanting to wait until Sweden had concentrated a large army in Finland, The Russian Empire took initiative and decided to take action. On the night of 9 (21) September (February 1808) Russian troops crossed the border to Finland and launched an offensive. Bagration's 21st division was forming the Russian centre and moving ahead to quickly seize Hämeenlinna, Tampere and Po...
Swedish assault on Turku
In September 1808 the Swedish command decided to land troops on Turku to distract attention from the northern Russian Front that threatened the Swedish main army and to secure the southern part of the west coast of Finland. A 2,500 men strong advance guard arrived in Åland and from there departed for the Turku coast. Bagration made a timely response and quickly threw the Swedes back to the sea. The Swedish leadership decided to take Turku at all cost to be able to create a bridgehead for rein...
Battle for the Åland Islands
In 1809, the Russian command had decided to take the war to the territory of Sweden to finally crush her army. The Russian army was divided into three operational groups commanded by Bagration, Barclay de Tolly and Pavel Shuvalov[ru]. Bagration's 17,000-strong corps consisted of 30 infantry battalions, four cavalry squadrons, 600 Cossacks and 20 guns. The main assault was to be carried out by a daring march across the frozen Gulf of Bothnia from Turku, reaching and capturing the heavily forti...
During the early stage of Napoleon's incursion into Russia, Bagration commanded the 2nd Russian Army deployed close to Vileyka, Belarus. The French march on Vilnius intended to split Bagration's forces from Barclay de Tolly's, who assumed overall command. Napoleon would then destroy Bagration's 2nd army with a combined hammer and anvil operation co...
Bagration, heavily influenced by Alexander Suvorov, was an innovative tactician who favoured mobile offensive warfare even though many of the battles he was engaged in with the French were of a defensive nature. He refused what he perceived as obsolete positioning tactics and instead would give the Russian army strategic objects and tactical manoeu...
On 15 October 1800, Bagration was granted the hereditary title of a Prince of the Russian Empire (Kniaz Bagration) by the Emperor Paul I. He was also awarded the Orders of St Andrew (1810), of St. Alexander Nevsky (1807), of the St Vladimir, 1st class (1809), of the St Anna, 1st class (1800), the St George 2nd class (1805) and made a Commander of t...
"Russia has no good generals. The only exception is Bagration." (Napoleon)"Prince Bagration—the most excellent general, worthy of highest degrees." (Alexander Suvorov)"Bagration—Lion of the Russian army." (Alexander Chernyshyov)Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), "Prince Peter Bagration" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 235Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Prince Peter Bagration" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 206–207Danilewsky, Michailowsky; Goldhammer, Carl R. (1840), Geschichte des vaterländischen Krieges im Jahre 1812, Vol. II, Riga: Edmund Götschel. (in German)Dumin, S.V., ed. (1996), Дворянские роды Российской империи [Noble families of the Russian Empire], Vol. III(in Russian), Moscow: LinkominvestMarek, Miroslav. "Genealogical account of Bagration's family". Genealogy.eu.Ivane Bagration of Mukhrani was a Georgian nobleman of the House of Mukhrani, and general in the Imperial Russian service. He was one of the biggest Georgian landowners of that time and a modernizer of winemaking industry.
English: Ivane Bagration of Mukhrani or Ivane Mukhranbatoni or Ivan Konstantinovich Bagration-Mukhransky (1812–1895) was a Georgian nobleman of the House of Mukhrani, and general in the Imperial Russian service. He was one of the biggest Georgian landowners of that time and a modernizer of winemaking industry.
Irakli Bagration-Mukhrani - Wikipedia. Irakli Bagration-Mukhraneli (in georgiano ირაკლი ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანელი?; Tbilisi, 21 marzo 1909 – Madrid, 30 ottobre 1977) è stato un principe georgiano del ramo Mukhrani dell'ex dinastia reale dei Bagrationi . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Ascendenza. 3 Onorificenze. 4 Note. 5 Altri progetti. 6 Collegamenti esterni.
Ivan Bagration. Ivan Vakhushtovich Bagration (Russian: Иван Вахуштович Багратион; Georgian language: ივანე ვახუშტისძე ბაგრატიონი , Ivane Vakhushtisdze Bagrationi) (1725 – 25 December 1781) was an Imperial Russian general of Georgian royal origin, born in the émigré royal family of Kartli . Biography.
