Mikhail Krechetnikov (original) (raw)

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Russian general (1729–1793)

Dmitry Levitzky, Mikhaïl Krechetnikov (Hermitage Museum)

Michael N. Krechetnikov (Russian: Михаил Никитич Кречетников, romanized: Mikhail Nikitich Krechetnikov, 1729, Moscow, Russian Empire – 9 May 1793, Medzhybizh, Podolie Vice-Royalty, Russian Empire) was a Russian military commander and General of Infantry (General-in-chief). He was the younger brother of Pyotr Krechetnikov.

The son of Nikita Krechetnikov, a state councillor, 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 Ukraine (Koliyivshchyna) 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 Belarus, Lithuania, western Ukraine and part of Poland) after the First Partition of Poland, before retiring to Russia on the second partition of Poland.

Manifest of General-in-Chief Krechetnikov

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

Also known as Manifest about joining of Polish oblasts (regions) to Russia in 1793 (see Second partition of Poland), it is an act by which Russian Empire pronounced its right on territories of the Right-bank Ukraine that until then was located as part of Rzeczpospolita.[1] The manifest was announced at town of Polonne near Zwiahel (today Novohrad-Volynsky) on 7 April [O.S. 27 March] 1793.[2]

  1. ^ Kasianenko, Yu. Manifest about joining of Polish oblasts (regions) to Russia in 1793 (МАНІФЕСТ ПРО ПРИЄДНАННЯ ПОЛЬСЬКИХ ОБЛАСТЕЙ ДО РОСІЇ 1793). Jurist encyclopedia by Shemshuchenko.
  2. ^ Valentyn Vitrenko, Leonid Kohan. The second partition of Rzeczpospolita and reform of administrative-territorial system at the Right-bank (ІІ поділ Речі Посполитої і реформування адміністративно-територіального устрою на Правобережжі). Zwiahel city virtual museum.
  3. ^ "Манифест генерал-аншефа Кречетникова о присоединении земель к России по второму разделу Польши".
  4. ^ "Манифест от 27.03.1793 Генерал-Аншефа Кречетникова, объявленный по Высочайшему повелению в стане Российских войск при Полонно "О присоединении Польских областей к России" | ГАРАНТ".
  5. ^ "Манифест генерал-аншефа Кречетникова о присоединении земель к России по второму разделу Речи Посполитой | Архивы Беларуси".
Political offices
Preceded byPyotr Rumyantsev Governor-General of Little Russia 1790–1793 Succeeded byIosif Igelström

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