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Bagration, Piotr Ivanovich, Prince

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Bagration, Piotr Ivanovich, Prince (pyô`tər ēvä`nəvyĭch bägrätēōn`), 1765–1812, Russian general in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He fought under Field Marshal Suvorov Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich (əlyĭksän` dər vəsē`lyəvĭch s
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 in the Italian and Swiss campaigns of 1798–99 and at Austerlitz, Eylau, and Friedland. In 1808 he captured the Aland Islands from Sweden; in 1809 he fought against the Turks in the Russo-Turkish War of 1806–12; and in 1812 he commanded an army against Napoleon and was mortally wounded at Borodino.


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