Ivan Paskevich

**Serene Prince**

Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich

Erevansky
Serene Prince; Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich; Erevansky
	Portrait by George Dawe
Native name	Иванъ Ѳедоровичъ Паскевичъ
Born	19 May 1782; Poltava, Russian Empire; (now Ukraine)
Died	1 February 1856 (aged 73); Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Allegiance	Russian Empire
Service/branch	Imperial Russian Army
Years of service	1800–1856
Rank	Field Marshal
Battles/wars	Branched list Siege of Silistra
Awards	Gold Sword for Bravery
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Count Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erevansky, Serene Prince of Warsaw (

Ivan Dibich-Zabalkansky, commander of the Russian armies of the same time.^[1]^[2]

Paskevich started as an officer during the Napoleonic wars serving in the battles of

Russo-Persian War (1826–28). He was made Count of Yerevan in 1828. Afterward, he became Namiestnik of Poland in 1831 after he crushed the Polish rebels in the November uprising. He then helped crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1848

. His last engagement was the Crimean War. Paskevich died in Warsaw in 1856.

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

Early life

Ivan Paskevich was born in

tsar.^[4]

Early military career

Napoleonic Wars

His first active service was in 1805, in the auxiliary army sent to the assistance of Austria against France, when he took part in the Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805, where Austrian – Russian troops were defeated by the French under Napoleon.^[4]

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. During the war with France in 1812–1814 he was in command of the 26th division of infantry, and he won promotion to the rank of lieutenant general.^[4] During and after Napoleon's invasion of Russia Paskevich was engaged in the battles of Borodino, Dresden, Leipzig, and Paris (1814).^[3]

Ivan Paskevich wrote a memoir of some of his experiences during the Napoleonic wars.[5]

The 1820s and the Russo-Persian War

Before the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), then–Lieutenant General Paskevich was made commander of the 1st Guard Infantry.^[3] In the unit the brother of Tsar Alexander and future Tsar Nicholas I. This started a relationship that had the future Tsar calling Ivan Paskevich "father-Commander".^[3]^[6]

On the outbreak of

Field Marshal at the age of forty-seven. In 1830, he was engaged in the Caucasian War on the territory of present-day Dagestan. At the same time he appointed the high-ranking Muslim cleric Mir-Fatah-Agha from Iran as head of the recently established Caucasus Committee. 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. Together with Mir-Fatah's high esteem among Muslims and his devised plans for the Caucasus, they managed to keep the entire Caucasus

stable from rebellious Muslim insurrections for many years to come.