Dmitry Dokhturov
Dmitry Sergeyevich Dokhturov (Russian: Дмитрий Сергеевич Дохтуров) (1756 - November 14(26), 1816, Moscow) was a Russian Infantry General and a prominent military leader during the Patriotic War of 1812.[1]
During the War of the Third Coalition, Dokhturov commanded the first column in the battle of Austerlitz, which he was able to extricate from the French envolopment at Pratzen. During the War of the Fourth Coalition, Dokhturov fought at Eylau and Friedland. Promoted to General of Infantry in 1810, at Borodino he commanded in the center of the Russian line and after Pyotr Bagration was mortally wounded, he commanded the left flank.
In the aftermath of the Hundred Days, during the advance of Field Marshal Tolly's Russian army into France in 1815, Dokhturov commanded the right column.[2]
See also
- Dmitry Dokhturov is mentioned in Tolstoy's War and Peace,[3] where he lauded as a great and effective soldier who is little recognized precisely because he fulfills his role so silently and effectively.
- He is an ancestor of E. L. Doctorow.[4]
Notes and references
- ^ Some English language sources spell the family name Doctorov, the historian William Siborne spelt it Dochterow and Napoleon Bonaparte spelt the family name Doctorow in his book on the Russian Campaign (Oeuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome V: Campagne de Russie (1821)).
- ^ William Siborne, in Waterloo Campaign 1815, Fourth Edition, Birmingham, 34 Wheeleys Road. p. 51
- ^ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Chapter XV
- ^ E. L. Doctorow & Christopher D. Morris. Conversations with E.L. Doctorow, University Press of Mississippi, 1999, ISBN 157806144X p. 82
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