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Revision as of 15:16, 23 March 2014
Michael N. Kretchetnikov (1729– 9 May 1793) was a Russian military commander and General of Infantry. He was the younger brother of Piotr Kretchetnikov.
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The son of H.C. Kretchetnikov, a privy counsellor, he graduated from the Land Gentry Corps and fought with the rank of second major in the Seven Years' War. During the Russo-Turkish War he distinguished at
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, for which he was promoted to Major-General. He then took part in the quelling of a revolt in the Ukraine on the orders of Catherine II.
From July 1775 he was governor-poruchik of Tver and then from 1776 governor of Kaluga and Tula. In 1790 he was awarded the title of general-anshefa. He fought in the Polish–Russian War of 1792, commanded Russian troops in Lithuania and was appointed Governor-General of that area (then including Belorussia, Lithuania, western Ukraine and part of Poland) after the First Partition of Poland, before retiring to Russia on the second partition of Poland.
Awards
- Order of St. Anna - 1774, for the storming of the city of Craiova
- Order of the White Eagle - 1776
- Order of Saint Stanislaus - 1776
- Order of Alexander Nevsky - 1779
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- Russian people of the Polish–Russian War of 1792
- 1729 births
- 1793 deaths
- Imperial Russian Army generals
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna
- Order of St. Alexander Nevsky recipients
- Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
- Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus
- Russian military personnel stubs