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BARYATINSKY, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH, PRINCE (1814-1879) ,Russian soldier and governor of the Caucasus, was privately educated, entered the school of the ensigns of the Guard in his seventeenth year and, on the 8th of November 1833, received his commissionof cornet in the Life Guards of the cesarevich Alexander. In 1835 he served with great
Petersburg
Fieldmarshal Paskievich to suppress the Cracow rising. From 1848 to 1856 he took a leading part in all the chief
mountain
adjutant
chief
commander
governor of the Caucasus. As an administrator
long elusive Shamyl was taken captive. Baryatinsky also conquered many of the tribes of the western Caucasus dwelling between the rivers Laba and Byelaya. For these fresh services he was created a fieldmarshal. But his health was now entirely broken by his strenuous labours, and on the 6th of December 1862 he was, at his own request, relieved of his post. He spent the last days of his life abroad and died at Geneva, after forty
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