Mikhail Krechetnikov

Dmitry Levitzky, Mikhaïl Kretchetnikov (Hermitage Museum)

General Krechetnikov declares the manifest of Catherine the Great to Volhynians and Podolians (Partitions of Poland)

Michael N. Kretchetnikov (1729– 9 May 1793) was a Russian military commander and General of Infantry. He was the younger brother of Piotr Kretchetnikov.

Life

The son of H.C. Kretchetnikov, a privy counsellor, he graduated from the Land Gentry Corps and fought with the rank of second major in the Seven Years' War. During the Russo-Turkish War he distinguished at Kagul, for which he was promoted to Major-General. He then took part in the quelling of a revolt in the Ukraine on the orders of Catherine II.

From July 1775 he was governor-poruchik of Tver and then from 1776 governor of Kaluga and Tula. In 1790 he was awarded the title of general-anshefa. He fought in the Polish–Russian War of 1792, commanded Russian troops in Lithuania and was appointed Governor-General of that area (then including Belorussia, Lithuania, western Ukraine and part of Poland) after the First Partition of Poland, before retiring to Russia on the second partition of Poland.

Awards

Order of St. Anna - 1774, for the storming of the city of Craiova
Order of the White Eagle - 1776
Order of Saint Stanislaus - 1776
Order of Alexander Nevsky - 1779

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(Russian) Biography

Political offices
Preceded by Pyotr Rumyantsev	Governor-General of Little Russia 1790–1793	Succeeded by

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