Dmitri Kutejnikov

Kuteinikov's portrait from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace (1825) painted by George Dawe

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Dmitri Kutejnikov (1766 - 1844), born in a Don Cossacks noble family and was a Russian Full General in time of Napoleonic Wars. Hero of Battle of Kinburn (1787). Kuteinikov served in wars against France and Turkey, was in a Russian expedition to India in 1800. In Patriotic War of 1812 was at Borodino, Battle of Maloyaroslavets and Battle of Berezina.

References

The Dictionary of Russian Generals in Napoleonic Wars. (Russian)

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