Johann Jakob von Pistor (1739 - 1814), also known as Yakov Matveyevich Pistor (russian: Яков Матвеевич Пистор), was an 18th-century

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who served in the

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. One of the most notable commanders of Russian forces in the Warsaw Uprising (1794), he authored a memoir on both the fights in Warsaw and the entire Kościuszko's Uprising.

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