Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy

Count Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman, soldier and officer who served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 and in the era of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He belonged to the famous Tolstoy family. Being in numerical inferiority while commanding the rear guard on the first day of the Battle of Kulm, he held out against the onslaught of French forces but lost his left arm.