Mikhail Kamensky

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Portrait by unknown painter, end of the 18th century. Suvorov's Museum, Saint Petersburg

Napoleonic campaigns
.

Biography

Mikhail Kamensky served as a

Potemkin fell ill and entrusted his command of the army to Mikhail Kakhovsky
, Kamensky refused to subordinate himself, referring to his seniority. For this, he was discharged from military service.

In 1797, Emperor

Feodor Buxhoeveden under pretence of illness and left for his estate near Oryol
.

Kamensky was notorious for his maltreatment of his

Nikolai Kamensky
.

British actor Helen Mirren is one of his descendants.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Command Performance". The New Yorker. 24 September 2006.