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Count Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky

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Count Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky

Birth
Simferopol, Simferopol Raion, Republic of Crimea, Ukraine
Death
Dec 1857 (aged 62)
Simferopol, Simferopol Raion, Republic of Crimea, Ukraine
Burial
Sevastopol, Lenin raion, City of Sevastopol, Ukraine Add to Map
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Count Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky (1794–1857) was an Imperial Russian general and statesman.

The illegitimate son of Count Aleksey Kirillovich Razumovsky [ru], who became Russia's Minister of National Education, Perovsky studied at Moscow University, then joined the retinue of Emperor Alexander I in 1811. As he retreated toward Moscow after the 1812 Battle of Borodino the French took him prisoner; he remained in captivity until the fall of Paris in 1814.

Perovsky was seriously wounded in Russia's 1828 war with Turkey.
Count Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky (1794–1857) was an Imperial Russian general and statesman.

The illegitimate son of Count Aleksey Kirillovich Razumovsky [ru], who became Russia's Minister of National Education, Perovsky studied at Moscow University, then joined the retinue of Emperor Alexander I in 1811. As he retreated toward Moscow after the 1812 Battle of Borodino the French took him prisoner; he remained in captivity until the fall of Paris in 1814.

Perovsky was seriously wounded in Russia's 1828 war with Turkey.


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