Mikhail Kamenskiy

Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky () ( 1738 – 1809 ) was a Russian Field Marshal prominent in the Catharinian wars and the Napoleonic Campaigns .

Mikhail Kamensky served as a Volunteer in the French army in 1758 - 1759 . He then took part in the Seven Years' War . In 1783 , Kamensky was appointed Governor General of Ryazan and Tambov Guberniya s. During the Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 , in 1788, he defeated the Turks at the Moldavian settlement of Gangur. When prince Grigori Potemkin fell ill and entrusted his command of the army to Mikhail Kakhovsky , Kamensky refused to subordinate referring to his seniority. For this, he was discharged from the Military Service . In 1797 , Emperor Paul I granted Kamensky the title of count and made him retire. In 1806 , Kamensky was appointed Commander-in-chief of the Russian army in Prussia , which had been fighting the French armies of Napoleon . After six days of being in command, on the eve of the Battle Of Pułtusk , he transferred the command to Feodor Buxhoeveden under pretence of illness and left for his estate near Oryol .

Kamensky was notorious for his maltreatment of his Serf s, and he was killed by one of them in 1809. His death occasioned a sentimental poem by Vasily Zhukovsky . He was the father of Generals Sergei Kamensky and Nikolai Kamensky . British actress Helen Mirren is his great-great-great-great-granddaughter.

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	1738 births

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