Count Adam Petrovich Ozharovsky (; ; 1776 – 30 November 1855,
Warsaw
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) was a Russian general of Polish descent who distinguished himself during the
Napoleonic Wars
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.
His father,
hetman Piotr Ożarowski, was seized by the insurrectionists and charged with treason during the
Warsaw Uprising
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, which took place from April 17 to April 19, 1794. He was sentenced to death and executed by
hanging three weeks after the insurrectionists gained control of the Polish capital, on May 9, 1794.
Possibly as a consequence of this, Adam entered the Russian service.
Emperor Paul had him dismissed from the imperial service and committed to prison in 1798; he was pardoned the following day, without any explanation. In 1806, upon her divorce from
Count Pahlen, Ozharovsky married Maria, great niece of
Prince Potemkin and the last Countess
Skavronskaya.
In September 1802 Ozharovsky was promoted Colonel and took part in all the
Napoleonic Wars
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that followed. During the
Battle of Austerlitz he took hold of the French banner, an exploit which won him the
Order of Saint George. He also excelled in the
Battle of Friedland, which claimed the life of his brother. On 22 July 1807 Ozharovsky was promoted Major General.
Ozharovsky played a prominent part in the
Patriotic War of 1812. An admirer of the military theories of
Ernst von Pfuel, he was put in charge of the camp of Russian forces near the
Drissa River. At
Tarutino and
Maloyaroslavets, Ozharovsky commanded a separate corps of
Cossacks and peasant militia. His "flying column" was stationed
at Krasnoi, when the
Imperial Guard attacked the town and succeeded in ousting Ozharovsky from it.
During the foreign campaigns of the Russian army, Ozharovsky fought in all major battles and took 20 French cannons at Sompuis. At the close of the war, he was promoted to Full General of Cavalry. He served as
Alexander I's aide-de-camp and was appointed a senator on 6 December 1826. Ozharovsky fell out with the next emperor and settled into retirement in 1827 but returned to take part in the suppression of the
November Uprising
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in 1831. At the time of his death, he was a member of the State Council of Poland.
References
The Dictionary of Russian Generals
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Russian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
Counts of Poland
Imperial Russian Army generals
Polish generals
1776 births
1855 deaths
Recipients of Russian royal pardons
Government officials of Congress Poland
Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree