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Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (10 July 1765 – 24 September 1812) was a Russian general and prince of Georgian origin, prominent during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Bagration, a member of the Bagrationi dynasty, was born in Kizlyar.
Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (em georgiano: პეტრე ივანეს ძე ბაგრატიონი P'et're Ivanes dze Bagrat'ioni, em russo: Пётр Ива́нович Багратио́н; 1765 — 24 de Setembro de 1812) foi um príncipe e general do exército Russo. Descendente da família real Bagrationi da Geórgia.
Pyotr Ivanovich, Prince Bagration was a Russian general who distinguished himself during the Napoleonic Wars. Bagration was descended from the Georgian branch of the Bagratid dynasty. He entered the Russian army in 1782 and served several years in the Caucasus.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
On July 8, with the forces of the emperor’s younger brother, King of Westphalia Jérôme Bonaparte, hard on his heels, Prince Pyotr Bagration, commander of Russia’s 2nd Army of the West ...
- Boris Egorov
Napoleon occupied Smolensk by driving out Prince Pyotr Bagration's Second Army. The French artillery bombardment burned the city to the ground. Of 2,250 buildings, 84% were destroyed with only 350 surviving intact.
Russian general Peter Bagration faced his supreme test against napoleon on the battlefield of Borodino in 1812.
Born into a noble Georgian family, he began his military career in 1782. He fought in the campaigns of 1792 and 1794 against the Poles. He found favour with Suvarov and was chosen as one of the latter's lieutenants for the Swiss and Italian campaigns of 1799.
