Biography of Kutaisov Alexander

He grew up and was brought up in the family. In the tenth year of life, according to the established tradition of those years, the boy was recorded in the army. When Alexander was 15 years old, Alexander Kutaysov was promoted to colonels with the appointment of an artillery battalion in the Life Guards. Translation to artillery was performed not without the influence of the uncle of young Alexander, his mother’s brother, Colonel Dmitry Petrovich Rezov.

At the end of the year he took part in the Austrian campaign.

Alexander’s combat baptism took place on December 14 in the battle near Golimin South Prussia already with the rank of Major General, which he received in September of the same year. The feat in the battle on January 27 of the year on the snowfield under the Provish-Elau in East Prussia made a twenty-twenty-year-old general to the well-known to all of Russia. So only Suvorov was awarded to him.

In the year, Kutaisov received a long vacation for a trip abroad. He did not spend a minute idly, from early morning to night he was in continuous classes more than one subject. Around the bed, he always stood up to ten rather large stools, like tables. On one he drew anything from the fortification, artillery, architecture, translated on the other, wrote artillery notes on the third, painted on the fourth, on the fifth lay a board with a neck for mathematical calculations, on the sixth violin and notes, on the seventh poems and so on.

Since February, Kutaisov was appointed chief of artillery of the 1st Western Army. In the same year, he developed the first battle charter of the field artillery "General rules for artillery in the field battle." With the outbreak of hostilities, Kutaisov was a frequent guest in the rearguard. It was Kutaisov with the gunners of the battery company Colonel Glukhov from the burning city that the image of the Smolensk Mother of God was saved.

The young general died during the Battle of Borodino on the Raevsky battery, when he personally led the retreating soldiers on the attack. It is believed that Kutaisov was killed by the nucleus. They could not bear his body, as the French surged, only managed to remove the order signs. A month later, Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov wrote an inconsolable father a letter with lines of true compassion.

In the army, it was also known about the love of Alekdra Ivanovich Kutaysova and Princess Anastasia Borisovna Meshcherskaya, the daughter of the owner of the neighboring village of Christmas, the village of Anosino. As a child, they were enlightened to each other and both wished this marriage.