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Prince Nikolai or Nicholas Vasilyevich Repnin (Russian: Николай Васильевич Репнин; 22 March [O.S. 11 March] 1734 – 24 May [O.S. 12 May] 1801) was a Russian statesman and general from the Repnin princely family who played a key role in the dissolution of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; the leading figure ...
20 de may. de 2024 · Nikolay Vasilyevich, prince Repnin (born March 11 [March 22, New Style], 1734—died May 12 [May 24], 1801, Moscow) was a diplomat and military officer who served Catherine II the Great of Russia by greatly increasing Russia’s influence over Poland before that country was partitioned.
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(?, 1734-Moscú, 1801) Diplomático y mariscal de campo ruso. Embajador en Polonia (1763-1769), participó en la guerra ruso-turca de 1768-1774 y en las negociaciones del Tratado de Kuchuk-Kainarzhi (1774). Fue gobernador general de la zona de Smolensk (1778-1791). Colabora para ampliar la biografía de Príncipe Nikolái Vasílievich Repnín.
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Born in Saint Petersburg, Prince Repnin served in the Imperial Army under his father, Prince Vasily Anikitovich Repnin, during the Rhenish campaign of 1748, and subsequently resided for some time abroad, where he acquired "a thoroughly sound German education." He also participated, in a subordinate capacity, in the Seven Years' War. In 1763, Empero...
Repnin resigned his post to lead troops against the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War. At the head of an independent command in Moldavia and Wallachia, he prevented a large Ottoman army from crossing the Pruth (1770), distinguished himself at the actions of Larga and Kagul, and captured Izmail and Kilia. In 1771 he received the supreme comman...
After the Second Partition of Poland, he was made governor-general of the newly acquired Lithuanian provinces, where he also commanded the Russian forces during the Kościuszko Uprising. Tsar Paul I raised him to the rank of field marshal(1796), and in 1798 sent him on a diplomatic mission to Berlin and Vienna to detach Prussia from France and unite...
Ambassadors and envoys from Russia to Poland (1763–1794)Ivan PninThis article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. Encyclopædia BritannicaCambridge University PressCatholic Encyclopedia article "Poland"Richard Butterwick, Poland's Last King and English Culture, Oxford University Press, 1998Giacomo Casanova, History of My life, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997Prince Nikolai Grigoryevich Repnin-Volkonsky (Russian: Николай Григорьевич Репнин-Волконский; 1778 – 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1845) was a general in the Imperial Russian Army.
Repnin, Nikolai [Репнин, Николай; né Волконский; Volkonsky], b 1778, d 18 January 1845 in Yahotyn, Pyriatyn county, Poltava region. Political and military leader in the Russian Empire; descendant of the Chernihiv Olhovych house of the Riurykide dynasty; husband of Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky ’s granddaughter; father of ...
Nicholas Repnin. Keyserling, who died in September, was soon replaced by Nicholas Repnin , who would become perhaps the most infamous of the Russian envoys of that period. In order to strengthen the Russian influence, he encouraged the civil war within the Commonwealth, also encouraging the conflict between Protestant and Catholic ...
