Pavel Tsitsianov
| Pavel Tsitsianov | |
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| Pavle Dimitris dze Tsitsishvili | |
Portrait of Tsitsianov wearing military decorations
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| Military Commander of Georgia / Viceroy of the Caucasus | |
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In office 1802–1806 |
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| Born | September 19, 1754 |
| Died | February 20, 1806 (aged 51) Baku, Baku Khanate, (present-day Azerbaijan) |
| Resting place | Sioni Cathedral, Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Religion | Georgian Orthodox |
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Prince Pavel Dmitriyevich Tsitsianov Russian: Павел Дмитриевич Цицианов, also known as Pavle Dimitris dze Tsitsishvili (Georgian: პავლე ციციშვილი, 19 September [O.S. 8 September] 1754—20 February [O.S. 8 February] 1806) was a Georgian nobleman and a prominent General of the Imperial Russian Army. Responsible for conquering large parts of Persia's Caucasus territories during the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813, from 1802 to 1806 he also served as the Russian Commander-in-chief in the Caucasus.
Tsitsianov was born in the noble Georgian family of Tsitsishvili to Dimitri Pavles dze Tsitsishvili and his wife Elizabeth Bagration-Davitashvili. His grandfather, Paata, moved to Russia in the early 1700s as part of a group of Georgian émigrés accompanying the exiled Georgian monarch Vakhtang VI. Tsitsianov had a younger brother, Mikhail Dmitrievich Tsitsianov, a Senator of the Russian Empire.
Tsitsianov began his career at the elite Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guard (Russia) in 1772. In 1786 he was appointed Colonel of a Grenadier regiment and it was in this capacity that he began his distinguished career during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–92) under Catherine the Great. In the aforementioned war, he fought at Khotin, on the Salchea River, at Ismail, and Bender.
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