Valerian Johann von Engelhardt (russian: Валериан Фёдорович Энгельгардт) (1798–1856) was a Russian lieutenant general and director of the Russian Institute of Railway Engineers.
Family
Engelhardt was born into the nobility of
Livonia as a member of the
Engelhardt family
The House of Engelhardt (russian: Энгельгардт) is a Baltic-German noble and baronial family of the former Russian Empire. The family name is sometimes given as von Engelhardt.
History
The legendary founder of the Engelhardt dynasty, C ...
on December 24, 1798, the son of Colonel F. H. Engelhardt.
His brother
Nikolai Engelhardt
Nikolai Fyodorovich Engelhardt (russian: Николай Фёдорович Энгельгардт) (24 December 1799 – 27 February 1856) was a Russian lieutenant general who helped to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
Family
Engelhardt ...
also became a lieutenant general and member of the
Order of St. George.
Army career
In 1815, he entered military service as a
cadet
A cadet is an officer trainee or candidate. The term is frequently used to refer to those training to become an officer in the military, often a person who is a junior trainee. Its meaning may vary between countries which can include youths in ...
in the Life Guards Regiment of Chasseurs. He was promoted to
ensign in 1819.
In 1830, Engelhardt was assigned to the Tenginsky 77th Infantry Regiment, and soon distinguished himself in the campaign in the
Kuban
Kuban (Russian language, Russian and Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Кубань; ady, Пшызэ) is a historical and geographical region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Pontic–Caspian steppe, ...
, for which he was promoted to captain. In 1832 he was promoted to colonel and transferred to the Volinsky Life Guards Regiment.
In 1831 Engelhardt was promoted to
major general and appointed to the 3rd Grenadier Division. In 1842 he was made a commander for special assignments in the independent
Caucasian Corps
Before the creation of the Caucasus Military District in 1865, Russian forces in the Caucasus were organized, at different times, in a number of formations under various names.
Before 1815
In 1777, the Russian troops located at Kizlyar and alon ...
under General
Neidgardt.
Director of the Institute of Railway Engineers
In 1843, Engelhardt was appointed director of the Institute of Railway Engineers. On December 4 of the same year, he was awarded the
Order of St. George, fourth class, for his 25 years of irreproachable service as an officer. In 1852 he received the rank of
lieutenant general and was appointed to a senior post in the Corps of Civil Engineers.
Engelhardt died on May 20, 1856, in
St. Petersburg and is buried in the Volkov Lutheran cemetery.
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1798 births
1856 deaths
Valerian
Imperial Russian Army generals
Russian military personnel of the Caucasian War