Prince Rodion (Radukan) Matveyevich Cantacuzino ( ro, Radu Cantacuzino; 1725 – 1774) was a Wallachian colonel, a participant of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. The founder of the Russian branch of the Wallachian

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. The nephew of the Wallachian Spatharios

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, who was killed in a skirmish with the Turks in 1769, Radukan Cantacuzino joined the volunteers' detachment of Count

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's army, acting against the Turks, and participated in the Battle of Kagul. Later he was admitted to the Russian service together with the regiment, which he formed from the natives of Wallachia. From the marriage with Catherine

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(died in 1811) he had sons Ivan (1756–1828) and

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(1761–1841). His niece Roxana Mikhailovna was the wife of the military general

Aleksey Melissino Aleksey Petrovich Melissino (russian: Алексей Петрович Мелиссино; c. 1759–1813) was a Russian military commander during the Patriotic War of 1812, advancing to the rank of major general. He was the last of the Melissino ...

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* * * 1725 births 1774 deaths Cantacuzino family Wallachian nobility {{Europe-mil-bio-stub