Filipp Semyonovich Zhevakhov (1752 – c. 1817) was a Russian

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 general of Georgian

Georgia (country)

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 noble descent and a participant of the Napoleonic Wars

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Zhevakhov was born in the émigré Georgian family of Princes Javakhishvili

Javakhishvili

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 who had an estate in Ukraine

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. He joined the Russian army as a hussar officer in 1766 and took part in the wars against the Ottoman Empire

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. He retired as a major-general in 1801, but temporarily returned to a military service to lead a volunteer militia from the Poltava Governorate

Poltava Governorate

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 during the war with Napoleonic France in the years 1812-1814.