José de Ribas
José de Ribas | |
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| Born | 13 September 1751 Naples, Kingdom of Naples |
| Died | 14 December 1800 (aged 49) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Allegiance |  Naples Russia |
| Service/ |  Imperial Russian Navy |
| Years of service | 1774–1800 |
| Rank | Admiral |
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| Awards | Order of St. Vladimir |
Admiral José de Ribas y Boyons (6 June 1749 – 14 December [O.S. 2 December] 1800), known in Spanish as José Pascual Domingo de Ribas y Boyons, in Italian as Giuseppe de Ribas and in Russian as Iosif (Osip) Mikhailovich Deribas (Russian: Ио́сиф (О́сип) Миха́йлович Дериба́с), was a Spanish[1][2][3] military officer under the Spanish held Kingdom of Naples, in Russian service. In recognition of de Ribas' famous victory at nearby Khadjibey, the future city's most famous street, Derybasivska, was named after him.[4] José de Ribas was one of the principal figures on the monument of Catherine the Great in Odesa and there is a small personal monument to him at the beginning of Derybasivska Street.
Life
Son of the Spanish consul in
He worked assiduously to smoothe relations between Jones and the European officers, especially Nassau-Siegen, as well as with Potemkin. He dealt with cases of insubordination and drunkenness by talking firmly with the offenders rather than exacting immediate punishment. His performance was noted and rewarded. Potemkin personally transferred him from the navy and placed him in charge of an army detachment under the operational command of Count Ivan Gudovich, one of the most decorated and accomplished generals in the southern theater.[7]
In late 1789, de Ribas's grenadiers captured Khadjibey (the village on the future site of Odesa) without a battle: "It was, in fact, one of the great non-battles of the war. The entire affair lasted no more than half an hour. The Ottoman garrison, a few-dozen startled soldiers and their senior officer, surrendered on the spot."[8]
His greatest deed was the
Shortly after the end of the war, he proposed a plan to Catherine of transforming the Ottoman garrison town of Khadjibey into a major Russian port with an ice-free harbor; she accepted the idea, and on 27 May 1794, she issued an edict ordering its development as a commercial and shipping center and naming de Ribas the chief administrator (glavnyi nachal'nik) of the project. He began constructing stone houses and administrative buildings and may have been the one to suggest naming the city after the ancient Greek town of Odessos (though Catherine is said to have insisted on a feminine ending, making it Odessa).[9]
As a son-in-law of
See also
References
- ^ White 2013, p. 301.
- ^ Addis, Kurrer & Lorenz 2020, p. 143.
- ^ Merry del Val 2008, p. 74.
- ^ Aleksandr Deribas, "Staraja Odessa", Optimum, 2012, p. 7.
- ISBN 0393070840), p. 44.
- ^ King, Odessa, p. 45.
- ^ King, Odessa, p. 47.
- ^ King, Odessa, p. 48.
- ^ King, Odessa, pp. 51-52.
Bibliography
- Addis, Bill; Kurrer, Karl-Eugen; Lorenz, Werner (2020). Physical Models: Their Historical and Current Use in Civil and Building Engineering Design. Wiley. ISBN 978-34-33609-62-0– via Google Books.
- Merry del Val, Diego (2008). "José de Ribas: Un Genio Militar al Servicio de la Zarina". Clío: Revista de historia. 78: 74–79. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- White, Duncan (Summer 2013). "Reviewed Work: Isaac Babel and the Self-Invention of Odessan Modernism. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory by Rebecca Jane Stanton". The Slavic and East European Journal. 57 (2): 300–302. JSTOR 24642452. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
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