General of the Imperial Russian Army (1765–1812)
A Georgian prince who became one of the Russian Empire's most aggressive commanders during the Napoleonic Wars, notable for pushing back against retreat-and-burn strategy even as his own forces withdrew — and for dying leading the left flank at Borodino in 1812.
Born into the Bagrationi dynasty in Kizlyar in 1765, Bagration enlisted in the Imperial Russian Army in 1782 and spent his early career in grinding regional campaigns: the Russo-Circassian War, the siege of Ochakov in 1788, the suppression of the Kościuszko Uprising in Poland in 1794. He made his name under Field Marshal Suvorov during the 1799 Italian and Swiss campaigns against France. When Russia joined the coalition against Napoleon in 1805, Bagration's successful defense at Schöngrabern that November allowed retreating Russian forces to link up with Kutuzov's main army; a month later he c…
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