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Pavel Tsitsianov

1754 - 1806

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Prince Pavel Dmitriyevich Tsitsianov (Russian: Па́вел Дми́триевич Цициа́нов; 19 September [O.S. 8 September] 1754–20 February [O.S. 8 February] 1806) was an Imperial Russian general of Georgian noble origin who played a prominent role in the Russian conquest of the South Caucasus. He served as the Russian Commander-in-chief in the Caucasus from 1802 to 1806 and commanded Russian forces in the Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813 until his assassination near Baku in 1806. Born in Moscow to a Georgian noble family that had lived in Russia for two generations, he entered military service at a young age and fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, the 1794 Polish uprising and the Persian expedition of 1796. Tsar Alexander I appointed him commander of Russian forces in the Caucasus in 1802. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Tsitsianov is the 6,938th most popular politician (up from 6,941st in 2019), the 606th most popular biography from Russia (up from 636th in 2019) and the 182nd most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pavel Tsitsianov ranks 6,938 out of 19,576Before him are Odo I, Duke of Burgundy, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Željko Komšić, Estrid of the Obotrites, Felipe Calderón, and Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin. After him are Lin Xin, Trần Hưng Đạo, Johannes Steinhoff, Edvard Eriksen, Yōsuke Matsuoka, and Lucjan Żeligowski.

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Among people born in 1754, Pavel Tsitsianov ranks 25Before him are Salomon Maimon, Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, Franz Xaver von Zach, Usman dan Fodio, Jurij Vega, and Jean-Antoine Marbot. After him are Vicente Martín y Soler, Andrea Appiani, Joseph Joubert, Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg, William Murdoch, and Alejandro Malaspina. Among people deceased in 1806, Pavel Tsitsianov ranks 25Before him are Michel Adanson, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Mungo Park, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, and George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney. After him are Vicente Martín y Soler, John Breckinridge, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, George Stubbs, and Federico Gravina.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pavel Tsitsianov ranks 606 out of 3,761Before him are Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1579), Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), Yuri Lotman (1922), Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), and Igor Netto (1930). After him are Alexander Godunov (1949), George Sanders (1906), Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), Vladimir Fock (1898), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), and Rodion Shchedrin (1932).

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