Alexandre Michaud, count of Beauretour (Russia: Александр Францевич Мишо; 19 January 1771, Nice, Kingdom of Sardinia – 22 July 1841,

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( it, Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1860. The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and a ...

) was a Piedmontese general who served 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 ...

as aide de camp to the tsar and as a military commander. His father was Jean-François Michaud, chief engineer to the County of Nice. He is buried in a floor tomb in the

Catacombe dei Cappuccini The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo (also Catacombe dei Cappuccini or Catacombs of the Capuchins) are burial catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. Today they provide a somewhat macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary histori ...

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Russian people of Italian descent Russian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars 1771 births 1841 deaths People from Nice {{Russia-mil-bio-stub