Adam Karl Wilhelm Nikolaus Paul Eugen von Württemberg (16 January 1792 – 26 July 1847) was a Duke of Württemberg and General in

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n and Polish-Russian service. Württemberg was born in Puławy to Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756–1817) and Princess Maria Anna Czartoryska (1768–1854). After his parents divorced in 1793 he was raised by his father and, as a nephew of the Russian Empress consort Maria Feodorovna, he was one of the playfellows of the later Tsar

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and soon joined the Tsarist Russian Army. During the occupation of France, in 1815, he was the chief of the army of Würtemberg in the department of Allier. Throughout the Polish

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of 1830 he commanded the Russian avantguard troops of General

Cyprian Kreutz Cyprian Gualbert Heinrich Graf von Kreutz (russian: Киприа́н Анто́нович Крейц , translit=Kiprián Antónovič Krejts ; 10 July 1777 - ) was a general of the Russian Imperial Army known for his service in the Napoleonic Wars ...

and was defeated on 19 February 1831 by the Polish forces of General

Józef Dwernicki Józef Dwernicki (March 19, 1779 in Warsaw – November 23, 1857 in Lopatyn near Lwów) was a General of Cavalry in the Polish Army, and a participant in the November Uprising (1830–1831). Biography Dwernicki was born in a szlachta, nobl ...

prior to the

Battle of Olszynka Grochowska The Battle of Olszynka Grochowska was fought on 25 February 1831 in the woods near Grochów, on the eastern outskirts of Warsaw. The Polish army, commanded by Józef Chłopicki, succeeded in preventing its Russian counterpart, under Hans Karl vo ...

. Württemberg became a lieutenant general and adjutant of Tsar Nicholas I; after his dismissal he returned to Germany, where he died in

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Ancestry

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Adam Of Wurttemberg 1792 births 1847 deaths People from Puławy Dukes of Württemberg (titular) Members of the Württembergian Chamber of Lords German expatriates in Russia