Biography of DV Davydov

Davydov’s father was a team leader at the military service and served under the command of Prince Suvorov. Denis Vasilievich received an excellent, at that time, home education. In Davydov, he enters the service in the cavalry guard Guards Regiment Junker and the next year he receives the rank of cornet. However, it was already transferred to the satirical free -designed fables from the guard to the Belarusian hussar regiment.

Two years later, Davydov is credited to the Life Guards Hussar Regiment as an adjutant of Prince Peter Bagration. During the fourth anti -Napoleon coalition - Davydov fought with the French on the territory of Prussia near Gutstadt and Gailsberg and was awarded various orders and regalia. Also on the topic: B - fought with the Swedes in Finland and participated in the capture of the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea.

For courage in the battle of Shumla, he was awarded diamond pendants to the Order of St. Anna of the 2nd degree. In Davydov, already in the rank of lieutenant colonel, he commands the battalion of the Akhtyr hussar regiment in the 2nd Western Army of Prince Bagration. After the outbreak of World War II, Davydov fights with the Napoleonic invaders in defensive battles near Romanov, Saltanovka and Smolensk.

He is deeply worried about the forced retreat of the Russian army deep into Russia. Before the Battle of Borodino, Davydov turned to Bagration with a proposal to carry out a deep raid on the rear of the enemy with the support of the population. He was allocated fifty hussars and eighty Cossacks. In fact, Davydov unfolded a real partisan war in the rear of the enemy.

With the success of the Davydov detachment, an increasing number of peasants flocked to him to continue the fight against the French invaders. So the hussar commander became one of the leaders of the partisan movement in the Patriotic War after the start of the French army, the detachment of Davydov, together with other partisan detachments, attacked the retreating French column of General Oero and captivated about two thousand people.

The glory of the dashing hero-Hussar was on everyone's lips. After the end of the Patriotic War, Davydov receives the rank of colonel and in with his detachment is part of the Adjutant General Vincerodrod. Without the order of the corps commander, Davydov raided the Saxon city of Dresden and forced the city garrison to surrender. Davydov removed Davydov from his post for the universality of Vinceroder and wanted to put him on trial, but the request of Denis Vasilyevich's friends before Emperor Alexander I helped Davydov to avoid a military tribunal and return to the army commander of Cossack detachments with whom he participated in the battle of Leipzig.

In Davydov commands the Akhtyr hussar regiment, fights at the forefront of the Silesian army commander Field Marshal Blucher. After the battle of Brown, Davydov was promoted to Major General and, at the head of the hussar brigade, joined Paris. After Davydov, he first commanded the first Dragoon division and then the 2nd equestrian division and resigned. However, not for long.

After coming to the imperial throne of Nicholas I, already in, Denis Davydov returns to military service and goes to the Caucasus to General Ermolov, where he takes an active part in the hostilities during the Russo-Persian War. Following the resignation of General Ermolov, Denis Davydov retires to his family estate. The incompatibility of characters with the new commander in the Caucasus General Paskevich prompted Davydov to make this decision.

However, as soon as the Motherland was in danger, Davydov immediately resumes military activities-Denis Vasilievich is appointed commander of the detachment between Villa and Bug during the Polish uprising in April of the same year Davydov is awarded the rank of Lieutenant General for the capture of Vladimir-Volynsky and is awarded the orders of St. Anna of the 1st degree and Vladimir 2nd degree.

After the rebellion in Poland, Davydov forever leaves military service and settles the upper MAZ in his estate in the Simbirsk province. Occasionally visits Moscow and St. Petersburg. During this period, Davydov is engaged in literary activity. On the southern anniversary of the victory over Napoleon, Denis Davydov was to take part in the celebrations for the opening of the monument on the Borodino field and at his proposal to the reburial of the remains of the hero Borodin Prince Peter Bagration.

However, the disease did not allow him to do this and on April 22 Denis Davydov at the age of 54 died in his estate. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. Denis Davydov made a huge contribution to Russian poetry and military literature. Davydov’s poetry can be called “hussar lyrics”. The heroes of Davydov’s poems are dashing hussars and shirt heroes, saturated with romanticism, patrioticity and love for Russia.

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