Prince Prince Yuri Dolgorukov (russian: Князь Юрий Долгуроков; November 2 (13) 1740 - 8 (20) November 1830) was a Russian general in chief and military governor of Moscow from May to November 1797, as well as the author of a set of military memoirs.

Life

He was the son of the future governor of Riga prince Vladimir Petrovich (1699-1761) and Elena Vasilievna, née Princess Hilkova (died 1763). He entered military service in 1749 and fought in the

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from 1756 to 1763, being wounded twice. He then fought in the

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and the

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, serving at the battles of Gross-Jegersdorf, Cesme and Ochakov among others.

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put him in command of a detachment sent in 1763 to support

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, a candidate for the throne of Poland. Later, he was sent by Empress Catherine on a Russian mission to the Serbs in

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when

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appeared on the scene claiming to be

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who died 1762. On 21 April 1773, he became a lieutenant general, in 1787 a lieutenant colonel. He defeated Ottoman troops near Chisinau in 1789 and retired from 1790 to 1793 before commanding a division in Moscow from 1794 to 1795. That post ended in resignation after friction with

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he was military governor-general of Moscow and commander of the Astrakhan Grenadier Regiment. From 1798 until his final retirement in 1799 he was also a member of the Council at the High Court. After retirement he lived in a large lost house on the Bolshaya Nikitskaya and on his Moscow estate at Petrovskoe-Razumovskoye. He died during a cholera epidemic just after his 90th birthday, surviving all his relatives. He was buried next to his wife in the lower church of the Nikolsko-Arkhangelsk church, near the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Saltykovka microdistrict, Balashikha).

References

*http://wars175x.narod.ru/bgr_dlg2.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Dolgorukov, Yuri

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1740 births 1830 deaths People of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) Russian military personnel of the Seven Years' War Deaths from cholera Governors-General of Moscow