Ludwig Ernst von Nicolay

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Louis Ernst Freiherr von Nicolay (Russian: Леонтий Павлович Николаи; 7 January 1820 in Copenhagen, Denmark – 2 February 1891 in the Grande Chartreuse, France)^{[citation needed]} was a Russian general during the Caucasian War. He converted to the Roman Catholicism taking a name Jean-Louis in the monastic life of the Carthusians.

Life

Louis von Nicolay was a grandson of Baron

). His brother, Alexander, was also a well-known figure in the Caucasus and left a memoir.

Nicolay in 1833 entered in the

, where he graduated from the course in 1846.

Since 1847 began active service on Baron Nicolay in the

4th degree. In recompense of these great feats of courage and bravery, rendered in 1853 in the cases against the Highlanders, and especially for the difference extended to the 17th of February in the assault and capture of the enemy's position on heavily fortified river Mechik on 3 October 1854 Baron Nicolay, with 6 companies of managed to break under the His-sous many thousands of Imam Shamil, who tried to invade the Kumyk plane on 6 December of the same year made a major general in the suite with the appointment of His Majesty. From 1857 to 1860 Nicolai was the commander in chief of the Caucasian Army and took part in the famous campaign of 1859, which ended in the Shamil's capture.

On January 28, 1860, Nicolay was promoted to lieutenant general with the appointment of the head of the Caucasian Grenadier Division, and in 1862 he was appointed adjutant-general, and was awarded a gold sword decorated with diamonds with the inscription "For Bravery". In the rank of chief of the Caucasian Grenadier Division of Baron Nicolay remained until 1867, when he left on vacation abroad. The following year he retired.

Religion

Nicolay was extremely religious, and this feeling is particularly developed in it for the full-time of the dangers of service in the Caucasus. The result of this religious sentiment was the transition of Baron Nicolay in 1868 from

in France, where he died on January 21 ( February 2 new style) 1891.

Diary

Baron Nicolay's diary from the period of the Hungarian campaign (1849) was printed in his lifetime in the

Russkaya Starina

in 1877 (Vol. XX, Vol. 9, 10 and 11).

References

Sources

• Military Encyclopedia / Ed. VF Nowicki et al. - St. Petersburg. : t of Sytina IV, 1911-1915. - T. 16.
• Olszewski M. Ya Caucasus from 1841 to 1866. St. Petersburg., 2003.
• Russian Biographical Dictionary: In the 25 t / under the supervision of Alexander Polovtsov. 1896-1918.

External links

• Militera.lib.ru