Pyotr Kakhovsky

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Peter Kakhovsky

Pyotr Grigoryevich Kakhovsky (Russian: Пётр Григорьевич Каховский, 1799 – 25 July [O.S. 13 July] 1826) was a Russian officer and active participant of the Decembrist revolt, known for the murder of General Mikhail Miloradovich and Colonel Ludwig Niklaus von Stürler.

Biography

Pyotr Kakhovsky was born in 1799 in

serfs
from his parents, his elder brother eventually found only seventeen after his death; the others either had been sold without land, or had run away, or had died.

He studied at

Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich
for "rude behavior in the house of a collegiate assessor, Mrs Wangersheim, not paying his debt to a candy shop, and laziness in military service".

Kakhovsky was sent to the 7th Ranger Regiment to fight in the

poruchik, in 1821 retired his military service because of an illness. In 1823 he traveled for medical treatment to Dresden, then Paris and Switzerland, Italy and Austria. After returning to Russia he settled in Saint Petersburg
(1824).

At that time, he was very enthusiastic about the history of Rome, especially Brutus killing of Julius Caesar and pronounced that he sought a similar fate. The decision may have been prompted by the rejection of his hand by S.M. Saltykova.

Kakhovsky became an active member of the

Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich, who attempted to pacify the Decembrists troops and prevent the bloodletting. Kakhovsky also killed the commander of the Life-guard grenadier
regiment colonel Ludwig Niklaus von Stürler who went to the Senate Square to persuade his soldiers not to take part in the uprising, and wounded another officer Gastfer.

Kakhovsky was arrested at his own apartment on December 15

Goloday Island in Saint Petersburg
.

Legacy

A commemorative stele to the Five Decemberists on Dekabristov Island.

His grandniece Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya (1887 – 1960) was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary militant and also became a terrorist: in 1918 she collaborated in the assassination of the German governor of Ukraine Hermann von Eichhorn, and actively worked in two failed attempts on the lives of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi and General Anton Denikin. She spent most of her life in Tsarist and Soviet prisons, or in internal exile.

The monuments to Pyotr Kakhovsky and four other executed Decemberists were placed on their probable burial place on Dekabristov Island (former Goloday Island).[3]

On 3 August 1940, the Soviet authorities renamed former Golodaevsky Lane in Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) to Kakhovskogo Lane in his honor.[4][3]

References

  1. ^ Каховский Григорий Алексеевич 1758 (in Russian). All Russia Family Tree. 28 June 2005. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  2. ISBN 0-8047-1026-0
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  3. ^ a b "Kakhovsky P.G. (1797-1826), Decembrist". Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Kakhovsky Lane". Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia. Retrieved 16 June 2016.

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