On this day

On this day

Ivan F. Paskevich, Field Marshal General, was born

19 May 1782

8 (19) May 1782 in Poltava, into a noble family was born Ivan F. Paskevich, Russian military leader and statesman, Count of Erivan (1828), Field-Marshal General (1829), Prince of Warsaw and the governor-general of the Kingdom of Poland (1831).