Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky (1738-1809), Russian Field Marshal-General, participant in the Seven Years ' War of 1756-1763 and the Russo-Turkish Wars of 1768-1774 and 1787-1791. He commanded a brigade, a separate corps. In the Russo-Prussian-French War of 1806-1807, he was commander-in-chief of the Russian Army. ...This happened during the second Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1791. In the area of the Moldavian village of Gankur, Kamensky's division was attacked by the forces of Mehmet Giray, the son of the Crimean Khan, an ally of the Ottoman Empire. The outcome of the case was decided by a masterful maneuver of the general-in-chief. With a combined blow to the flank and rear, he overturned the enemy, and the Tatars fled. The Russian cavalry gave chase. In the sich, Mehmet Giray fell with a hundred of his soldiers, in addition, the Russians captured prisoners and considerable trophies, including artillery and six banners. In war as in war. But even the most intense ecstasy of victory is not able to overshadow the noble warrior's compassion for the defeated enemy. At the end of the battle, Kamensky ordered to find the remains of the commander on the battlefield and transfer them to the enemy. Appealing, as they say now, to universal values, in a letter to the khan, he noted that he was transferring the body of his son so that he could be buried according to the Muslim rite, and he was doing this "not as a Russian general, but as a father whose children might suffer the same fate.".. The army biography of Mikhail Kamensky (he was born in 1738, graduated from the land cadet corps) began during the Seven Years ' War. But although he managed to study the Prussian army well both in battle (he participated in the campaigns of 1760 and 1761) and theoretically (in 1765 he served as a military agent under Frederick II), he still gained military fame in battles with the Turks. By the beginning of the first Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774, 30 - year-old Mikhail Fedotovich was alr ... Read more