Mikhail Miloradovich

Count Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich (, , ; –

Miloradovich served in wars against France and the Ottoman Empire, earning distinction in the Battle of Amstetten (1805), the capture of Bucharest (1806), the Battle of Borodino (September 1812), the Battle of Tarutino (October 1812), the Battle of Vyazma, and the Battle of Krasnoi (November 1812). He led the reserves into the Battle of Kulm (August 1813), the Battle of Leipzig (October 1813) and the Battle of Paris (1814). Miloradovich attained the rank of General of the Infantry in 1809 and the title of count in 1813. His reputation as a daring battlefield commander (contemporaries called him "the Russian Murat" and "the Russian Bayard" The Russian branch of the Miloradovich family was established in 1715, when Mikhail I Miloradovich (the first) , one of three brothers recruited by Peter I to incite rebellion against the Turks four years earlier, fled from Herzegovina to Russia and joined Peter's service as a colonel. Yakov Gordin suggested that Miloradovich acted as an independent dictator, using Constantine merely as a front.