Grigory Yakovlevich Skariatin (russian: Григорий Яковлевич Скарятин; 1808 – Segesvár,now Sighisoara, Romania July 9 or July 31, 1849) was a Russian

Major general Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of ...

. On February 3, 1849, on the command of his superior, Alexander von Lüders, he crossed the

Carpathians The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...

and occupied

Sibiu Sibiu ( , , german: link=no, Hermannstadt , la, Cibinium, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Härmeschtat'', hu, Nagyszeben ) is a city in Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Ci ...

. He faced a defeat on March 11 since the Hungarians led by

Józef Bem Józef Zachariasz Bem ( hu, Bem József, tr, Murat Pasha; March 14, 1794 – December 10, 1850) was a Polish engineer and general, an Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European patriot ...

outnumbered the Russian army. Since the Habsburg staff admitted its defeat at Sibiu, Skariatin was forced to leave Hungary. As he successfully organized the retreat, he was promoted to major general and was appointed to lead the 5th Infantry Corps. On July 31 he was hit by a cannonball at the Battle of Sighisoara, and died. According to the Russians he actually fell on July 9.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Skariatin, Grigory 1808 births 1849 deaths People of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848