Alexander Mikhailovich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Римский-Корсаков) (August 24, 1753May 25, 1840) was a Russia

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n General

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 remembered as an unlucky assistant to Alexander Suvorov

Alexander Suvorov

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov , Count Suvorov of Rymnik, Prince in Italy, Count of the Holy Roman Empire , was the fourth and last generalissimo of the Russian Empire.One of the few great generals in history who never lost a battle along with the likes of Alexander...

 during his Swiss expedition of 1799–1800

Suvorov's Italian and Swiss expedition

The Italian and Swiss expeditions of 1799 and 1800 were undertaken by the Russian commander Alexander Suvorov against French forces in Piedmont and Switzerland as part of the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars in general and the War of the Second Coalition in particular.-Italian...

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Korsakov entered military service early, and fought in the Russo-Turkish War in 1788 and 1789, and then in the Russo-Swedish War. He subsequently became a major-general of the Semenovsky regiment

Semenovsky Regiment

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 of the Leib Guard, assigned to accompany the Count of Artois

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 to England

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. From there he went to Flanders

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 to the army commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg

Prince Josias of Coburg

Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was a general in the Austrian service.-Biography:...

, with which he participated in the Battle of Fleurus (1794)

Battle of Fleurus (1794)

In the Battle of Fleurus on 26 June 1794, the army of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan faced the Coalition Army commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg in the most decisive battle of the Flanders Campaign in the Low Countries during the French Revolutionary Wars...

. Returning to St. Petersburg, he fought under Count Valerian Zubov

Valerian Zubov

Count Valerian Aleksandrovich Zubov was a Russian general who led the Persian Expedition of 1796. His siblings included Platon Zubov and Olga Zherebtsova....

 in an ill-fated expedition against Persia

Persian Expedition of 1796

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, which Emperor Paul I

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 recalled in 1799 in order to deal with the French Revolutionary Wars

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Paul I gave Korsakov command of an army of 40,000 men to drive the French out of Switzerland

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. Korsakov took the army to Zürich

Zürich

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 to join up with the 25,000-man army of Austria

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n general Friedrich von Hotze; Alexander Suvorov

Alexander Suvorov

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov , Count Suvorov of Rymnik, Prince in Italy, Count of the Holy Roman Empire , was the fourth and last generalissimo of the Russian Empire.One of the few great generals in history who never lost a battle along with the likes of Alexander...

's army was also supposed to meet them, but did not arrive in time. The French under André Masséna

André Masséna

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 attacked on September 25, 1799 in the Second Battle of Zürich

Second Battle of Zürich

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, winning a victory and forcing Korsakov to withdraw. He led the remainder of his army towards Lindall and combined it with that of Suvorov, who took over primary command. The combined army turned towards Bohemia

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, from which Paul I recalled it to Russia for the winter.

With the accession of Emperor Alexander I

Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I of Russia , served as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and the first Russian King of Poland from 1815 to 1825. He was also the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland and Lithuania....

 in 1801, Korsakov was appointed cavalry

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 general. He soon retired from military command, and from 1805 to 1830 served as Governor-General of Lithuania and ordered the reconstruction of the Tuskulėnai Manor

Tuskulenai Manor

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 in Vilnius

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, where he lived. He died in 1840 in St. Petersburg as a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia

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