Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy

Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann - Tolstoy (Russian: Александр Иванович Остерман - Толстой, scientific transliteration Aleksandr Ivanovich Osterman - Tolstoy, * 1770/72; † February 11, 1857 in Le Petit- Saconnex, Switzerland ) was an officer in the Russian army in time the Napoleonic Wars. He was a great-grandson of Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann.

Life

Ostermann - Tolstoy fought in 1790 with distinction in the campaigns against Turkey and Poland.

In 1798 he became Major General and was awarded in 1805 as a lieutenant general in command of the Russian Corps, which carried out a diversionary attack in northern Germany together with Swedish and English auxiliaries. After his return he became governor of Saint Petersburg. In 1806 he led a division in Bennigsen's army and fought, as well as in 1807 against the French. In 1812 he was given command of the Fourth Army Corps, and participated with this the entire campaign of 1812 with distinction. He took a major role in the battles of Borodino and Tarutino. 1813 Ostermann - Tolstoy ( 21-22. May) was wounded in the Battle of Bautzen, then fought at Dresden. In the battle of Kulm on 29 and 30 August, he commanded the Russian Guard Corps. In this battle, where he twice a stronger enemy was stopped at the top of the Guards Corps ( under General Vandamme ), he was again wounded and lost his left arm.

Together with Klenau he reached the capitulation of Dresden in November. In 1815 he went for a short time as an envoy to Paris. 1817 appointed one Ostermann - Tolstoy general of the infantry. As commander of the Grenadier Corps in 1825, he took his leave. After he had spent several years in France and Italy, he undertook in 1831 when accompanied by Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer a journey through the Orient and settled down in 1837 in Le Petit- Saconnex on Lake Geneva. Ostermann - Tolstoy died childless.