Ivan Paskevich

Russian Empire state institutions Counter-revolutionary forces 1782–1856 ○ Natural causes

Russian field marshal who took Warsaw in 1831 and in 1849 led the Russian army that forced the Hungarian surrender at Világos

Born at Poltava in 1782 to a father of a Zaporozhian Cossack family and a Belarusian noblewoman, he passed through the Page Corps and was commissioned into the Guards in 1800. He fought at Austerlitz, Borodino and Leipzig, conquered the Erivan khanate in the Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828, becoming Count of Erivan, and was made field marshal in 1829. Charged in 1831 with crushing the Polish November Uprising, he took Warsaw and was made Prince of Warsaw and viceroy of Poland; his rule, known in Poland as the "Paskevich Night", was infamous for political repression and Russification. In 1849 he led the Russian army sent to aid Austria into Hungary and finally compelled the Hungarian surrender at Világos. Commanding the Army of the Danube at the start of the Crimean War, he was wounded in 1854, and he died in Warsaw in 1856.

Also known as: Ivan Paskevich-Erivansky · Ivan Paskevich-Erevansky