Alexander Isakov (
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: Александр Степанович Иисаков, 1730 — 1794) was a major general and a military and administrative Russian figure of the 18th century.
Reign
He was born into the family of a clerk and served in army since 1742.
In 1755, he became the captain of the garrison of the Borovska settlement,
Bakhmut
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province of the
Voronezh Governorate
Voronezh Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1708 (as ''Azov Governorate'') to 1779 and again from 1796 to 1928. Its capital wa ...
, during the construction of the village of Serbo-Slavyanskoye for the settlement of the
Serbs who settled there. Participant of the
Seven Years' War
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of 1756–1763.
On March 22, 1764, he was appointed to the post of commander of the
Fortress of St. Elizabeth and all the villages near that fortress that made up the Novorossiya Governorate, and consisted in this position until his resignation.
Participant in the
first campaigns of the
Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774) where he commanded the defense of the St. Elizabeth fortress.
On January 1, 1770, he was dismissed from service in the same rank, without being awarded a rank.
[От канцелярии Правительствующего Сената объявления о вызове наследников, кредиторов и должников в Курскую палату гражданского суда // С.-Петербургские сенатские объявления по судебным, распорядительным, политическим и казенным делам. — 1831. — 11 августа (№ 64). — С. 7.]
References
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Governors-general of Novorossiya
Imperial Russian major generals
Russian military personnel of the Seven Years' War