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Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy

Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy

Count Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy (or Osterman-Tolstoy; Russian: Александр Иванович Остерман-Толстой, romanized: Aleksandr Ivanovich Osterman-Tolstoy; 1770 – 12 February 1857) was a Russian Imperialgeneral of the infantry, best known for his services during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He belonged to the famous Tolstoy family. Being in numerical inferiority while commanding the rear guard on the first day of the Battle of Kulm, he held out against the onslaught of French forces but lost his left arm.