Prince Ivan Stepanovich Gurielov also known as Guryalov (Гурьялов) or Gurieli (Гуриэли; ) (1770 – 1818) was a Russian general

General

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 of Georgian

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 origin who fought in several campaigns, most notably in the 1812-14 wars against Napoleon I of France

Napoleon I of France

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.

Gurielov came from the princely dynasty of Gurieli

Gurieli

Gurieli was a Georgian noble family and a ruling dynasty of the southwestern Georgian province of Guria which was autonomous and later for a few centuries independent, as well as a few ducal rulers of the dynasty rose in the 17th-18th centuries to be kings of the whole western Caucasus in place...

, which ruled Guria

Guria

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, a small region on Georgia’s

Georgia (country)

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 Black Sea

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 coast. His grandfather, Kaikhosro III, who had briefly ruled Guria in 1716, retired to Russia with Vakhtang VI of Kartli

Vakhtang VI of Kartli

Vakhtang VI , also known as Vakhtang the Scholar and Vakhtang the Lawgiver, was a Wāli of Kartli, eastern Georgia, as a nominal vassal to the Persian shah from 1716 to 1724. Traditionally, he has been still styled as king of Kartli...

 in 1724 and then served in the Georgian Hussar Regiment.

Ivan Gurieli enrolled in the Russian army

Imperial Russian Army

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 in 1780 and received the rank of praporshchik

Praporshchik

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 in 1786. He took part in the Russo–Turkish War (1787–1792) and the Polish campaign

Kosciuszko Uprising

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 (1794). He was promoted to colonel

Colonel

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 on June 25, 1799, and to major general

Major General

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 on May 16, 1803. He served as a commander of Volinsky musketeer

Musketeer

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 regiment (1803-05) and a commandant of Vilno (now Vilnius

Vilnius

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, Lithuania

Lithuania

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) (1808-12). During Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812), he led the Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg

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sky Infantry Regiment and then the 1st Brigade within the 23rd Infantry Division and assumed the command of the same division after the Battle of Borodino

Battle of Borodino

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. He took part in the battles of Tarutino

Battle of Tarutino

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, Vyazma

Battle of Vyazma

The Battle of Vyazma , occurred at the beginning of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. In this encounter the rear guard of the Grande Armée was defeated by the Russians commanded by General Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich...

 (1812), Bautzen

Battle of Bautzen

In the Battle of Bautzen a combined Russian/Prussian army was pushed back by Napoleon, but escaped destruction, some sources claim, because Michel Ney failed to block their retreat...

 and Leipzig

Battle of Leipzig

The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations, on 16–19 October 1813, was fought by the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine...

 (1813). During the Battle of Paris (1814)

Battle of Paris (1814)

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, he was the first of the allied commanders to assail the Montmartre

Montmartre

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Heights. Since 1816, Gurielov served as a commander of the 27th Division.