Aleksandr Chechenskiĭ

Alexander Nikolayevich Chechenskiy (born Ali; ; 1780 – 1834) was a Russian major general in the Russian imperial cavalry of Chechen descent. He participated in the War of the Fourth Coalition and Patriotic War of 1812 among many other conflicts.

Early life Alexander was captured as a five year old during a Tsarist raid on the Chechen village of Aldi, his birth name was Ali. His mother Rahimat died in childbirth. The father of the child, Alkhazur fell in battle with the Tsarist troops attacking his aul. He was taken up by a sixteen-year-old lieutenant Nikolay Raevsky. The boy was baptised Alexander Nikolayevich Chechenskiy. He grew up in Kamenka in Little Russia with the mother of Nikolai Raevsky, Ekaterina Nikolaevna.

Alexander received an excellent home education and later graduated from the Moscow University. Then begins the military career of Alexander. With the rank of chief officer, he serves in Kizlyar in the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment, where the commander was his adoptive father, Nikolay Raevsky. During two years of service in the Caucasus, Alexander distinguished himself in expeditions against the Qajar Empire around the Caspian and in military operations against the Ottoman Empire in the Black Sea. He was promoted to the rank of warrant officer.

Legacy On the Cathedral of Christ the Savior erected under the reign of Alexander III, among the names of other heroes, the name of Alexander Chechensky was carved as he was awarded the Order of St. George IV degree.

The name of the village of Chechen in the Pskov oblast and Chechen street in Bezhanitsy is commonly associated with the name of Alexander Chechenskiy.

In Grozny there is a street named after Alexander Chechenskiy.