Prince Pyotr Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1790–1868) was an Imperial Russian Army

Imperial Russian Army

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 general from the Gorchakov

Gorchakov

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 family of Russian nobility

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He served under Mikhail Kamensky

Mikhail Kamensky

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 and Mikhail Kutuzov in the campaign against Turkey, and afterwards against France in 1813–1814. In 1820 he suppressed an insurrection in the Caucasus

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, for which service he was raised to the rank of major-general. In 1828–1829 he fought under Prince Peter von Wittgenstein against the Turks, won an action at Aidos, and signed the treaty of peace

Treaty of Adrianople

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 at Adrianople. In 1839 he was made governor of Eastern Siberia

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, and in 1851 retired into private life.

When the Crimean War

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 broke out he offered his services to the emperor Nicholas

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, by whom he was appointed general of the VI army corps in the Crimea

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. He commanded the corps in the battles of Alma

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 and Inkerman

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. He retired in 1855 and died at Moscow

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, on March 18, 1868.