Adam Otto Wilhelm Freiherr
von Bistram or Adam Ivanovich Bistrom (Russian: Адам Иванович Бистром; 23 October 1774 in
Merjama,
Kreis Wiek,
Governorate of Estonia – 17 October 1828 in
Dresden) was a commander in the
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...
during the
Napoleonic Wars. He was from a
Germano-Baltic
Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declined ...
noble family and his elder brother
Karl von Bistram
Karl Heinrich Georg von Bistram or Karl Ivanovich Bistrom (Russian: Карл Иванович Бистром; 1770, Bad Kissingen - 16 June 1838, Bad Kissingen) was a commander in the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars
The Napo ...
also fought in these wars.
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20160422091700/http://www.museum.ru/1812/persons/slovar/index.html
1774 births
1828 deaths
People from Märjamaa
People from Kreis Wiek
Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire
Baltic-German nobility
Russian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
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