Ivan Petrovich Liprandi (17 (28) July 1790 - 9 (21) May 1880) was a Russian major general, historian and chief of the secret police.

Life

His father headed Russia's arms factories and organised those of Tsar Alexander, before moving from Russia to the Piedmont

Piedmont

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. Ivan fought in the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

 and then in Odessa

Odessa

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 under Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov

Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov

Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov , was a Russian prince and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic wars, and most famous for his participation in the Caucasian War from 1844 to 1853....

. A close friend of Pushkin, he recorded several anecdotes relating to the author. After leaving military service, he was an 'official for special assignments', first for the Minister of Internal Affairs (from 1840), and then at the Government Office (from 1856 PM).

Liprandi played a prominent role in the so-called Petrashevsky Circle

Petrashevsky Circle

The Petrashevsky Circle was a Russian literary discussion group of progressive-minded commoner-intellectuals in St. Petersburg organized by Mikhail Petrashevsky, a follower of the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier. Among the members were writers, teachers, students, minor government...

. On behalf of Minister of Interior L.A. Perovskii, he observed the circle for a year and on 20 April 1849 gave the names of four people more or less involved in it, all of whom were arrested. The Commission of Inquiry invited Liprandi to express his opinion about the case, provided they noted that (napech. in Russian Antiquity 1872), in his own words, he had contributed to the guilt verdict against the four.

Main works

• "Brief Review of the Patriotic War of August 17 until September 2 ( St. Petersburg ., 1858 );
• "The Battle of Borodino
  Battle of Borodino
  The Battle of Borodino , fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia and all Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250,000 troops and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties...
  
  " ( 1861 );
• "The Eastern Question and Bulgaria" (Wiley, 1868 );
• "Bulgaria" ( 1877 );
• "Looking at the theatre of war on the Danube, etc." ( 1878 ).
• Numerous articles (on topics including the Old Believers
  Old Believers
  In the context of Russian Orthodox church history, the Old Believers separated after 1666 from the official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652–66...
  
  ) published in Russian Antiquity " , "Russian Archives" , "Thurs MO I. Dr." etc.

Sources

Article on Liprandi

• Rogachev AB Liprandi Ivan Petrovich / / Russian writers, 1800-1917: Biographical Dictionary. М., 1994. M., 1994. Т. 3. T. 3. С. 362—364. S. 362-364.

This article incorporates text from the Eleventh Encyclopædia Britannica (1890-1907).