Nikolai Repnin-Volkonsky

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Prince

Nikolai Repnin-Volkonsky
General

Prince Nikolai Grigoryevich Repnin-Volkonsky (Russian: Николай Григорьевич Репнин-Волконский; 1778 – 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1845)[1] was a general in the Imperial Russian Army.

Life

Portrait of Repnin-Volkonsky by Vladimir Borovikovsky (1806)

He was the son of General Prince Grigory Semyonovich Volkonsky of the

Göttingen Academy of Sciences
.

He returned to Russia in 1811, and a year later, was put in command of a cavalry regiment in the army department commanded by

Jean-Victor Moreau
.

He took part in the Hundred Days campaign and the Congress of Vienna. In 1816, he became governor of the Province of Poltava, and in 1835, a member of the State Council.

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