Ivan Paskevich Portrait by George Dawe from the Military Gallery Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich ( Russian : Иван Фёдорович Паскевич ) ( 18 August 1782 [ O.S. 5 August ] – 1 February 1856 [ O.S. 20 January ] ) was a Ukrainian -born military leader in the Russian service . For his victories , he was made Count of Erivan in 1828 and Prince of Warsaw in 1831 . Born in Poltava to a well-known family of the Ukrainian gentry , he was educated at the imperial institution for pages , where his progress was rapid , and in 1800 received his commission in the Guards and was named aide-de-camp to the tsar . His first active service was in 1805 , in the auxiliary army sent to the assistance of Austria against France , when he took part in the Battle of Austerlitz . From 1807 to 1812 , he was engaged in the campaigns against Turkey , and distinguished himself by many brilliant and daring exploits , being made a general officer in his thirtieth year . During the war with France in 1812 - 1814 he was present , in command of the 26th division of infantry , at all the most important engagements ; at the Battle of Leipzig he won promotion to the rank of lieutenant general . On the outbreak of war with Persia in 1826 he was appointed second in command , and , succeeding in the following year to the chief command , gained rapid and brilliant successes which compelled the shah to sue for peace in February of 1828 . In reward of his services he was named by the emperor Count of Erivan , and received a million rubles and a diamond -mounted sword . From Persia he was sent to Turkey , and , having captured in rapid succession the principal fortresses , he was at the end of the campaign made a Field Marshal at the age of forty-seven . In 1830 , he subdued the mountaineers of Dagestan . Paskevich Palace in Homel , Belarus . In 1831 , he was entrusted with the command of the army sent to suppress the November Uprising in Poland , and after the fall of Warsaw , which gave the death blow to Polish independence , he was raised to the dignity of prince of Warsaw , and created viceroy of the kingdom of Poland . On the outbreak of the Insurrection of Hungary in 1848 he was appointed to the command of the Russian troops sent to the aid of Austria , and finally compelled the surrender of the Hungarians at Világos . In April of 1854 he again took the field in command of the army of the Danube , but on June 9 , at Silistria , where he suffered defeat , he received a contusion which compelled him to retire from active service . He died in Warsaw , where in 1869 a memorial was erected to him . He held the rank of field marshal in the Prussian and Austrian armies as well as in his own service . References This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition , a publication now in the public domain . Categories : Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica | 1782 births | 1856 deaths | People of the Revolutions of 1848 | Russian Field Marshals | Russian nobility | Ukrainian people In other languages : Deutsch | Français | Magyar | Polski | Русский | Українська Иван Фёдорович Паскевич 18 August 1782 5 August 1 February 1856 20 January 