Pavel Liprandi General Pavel Petrovich Liprandi , Павел Петрович Липранди , ( 15 January 1796 – 27 August 1864 ) was a Russian soldier who took part in the Crimean War . Life . On the French invasion of Russia in 1812 , he unsuccessfully tried to enter the Akhtyrsky Hussars , but had to satisfy himself with being a volunteer on the staff of 6 Corps ( commanded by Dmitry Dokhturov ) , in which his brother Ivan Petrovich was serving as chief quartermaster . Pavel fought with the corps in the battles of , and . Due to this experience was made a sub - ensign in the Pskov Musketeer Regiment in 1813 , with which he participated in the pursuit of Napoleon ' s army back across Germany and into France , fighting at ( for the difference he made to the non - commissioned ranks ) , , , , Laffert - sous - Zhoar ( for which was made a second lieutenant ) , , Chateau - Thierry , Méré , , , Soissons and the capture of Paris . In 1816 Liprandi was appointed adjutant to General Talyzin , head of the 16th Division ; in 1818 ( already at the rank of captain ) he was transferred to the Life Guards Grenadier Regiment . In 1822 he was transferred to the general staff , with his appointment as adjutant to the corps commander General Sabaneyev , with whom he soon became friends and through whom he became known to Count Vorontsov and VP Kiselev . Close interaction with these commanders had a great influence on Liprandi , as was to become manifest later , when he took command himself . Before the Russo - Turkish War of 1828 – 29 , as adjutant and chief of staff to General Kiselev , Liprandi was ordered to the fortress of Isaccea Pasha to deliver the Russian declaration of war , with a secret commission to examine the fortress and find out if the Turks had intelligence of the Russian army ' s movements . Brilliantly fulfilling this assignment , he was sent to Galaţi in order to find out whether there were suitable vessels for the transport of troops in the planned expedition to Isaccea , another mission he successfully executed . In May 1828 Liprandi participated in the siege and occupation of the fortress Brailov and , after the Russian troops crossed the Danube , he was sent to general Rudzevich with orders to capture Isaccea and the road to Brailov , Babadag and Tulcea . On July 8 he participated in the Battle of Shumen and for his conduct there was awarded the Order of St . Vladimir , 4th degree with bow . In 1829 , as a lieutenant - colonel , Liprandi was given a secret order to observe everything that took place in the Austrian Empire and to go the border of Moldova and there gather as accurate information as possible on the Austrians ' plans . In 1830 he was put in charge of the Satunovskiy Quarantine , and on the outbreak of cholera in the Novorossiysk region was appointed chief commander of the fortress of Kinburn and Ochakov . Liprandi commanded the Eletski Infantry Regiment , which participated in the war against the November Uprising in Poland , being first in the unit of General Theodor von Rüdiger for operations against Józef Dwernicki , then fighting at the siege of the fortress at Zamość , where he fought with distinction and was made a colonel . He then fought in the storming of Warsaw ' s fortifications , where he commanded 1st Brigade 2nd Infantry . When Baron Teodor Geismar was shot , Liprandi replaced him as commander of the entire assault column and was the first to ascend the ramparts of fortifications 54 and 22 , for which he was awarded the Order of St . George 3rd degree number 453 , with the citation " in reward for the courage and bravery shown on 25 and 26 August 1831 in the storming of the fortifications of Warsaw " . После покорения Варшавы он вступил в авангард генерал - лейтенанта Сиверса , преследовал мятежников , отступивших в Люблин , и участвовал в блокаде этой крепости . After the conquest of Warsaw , he joined the vanguard of Lieutenant - General Sievers , pursued the retreating Polish rebels to Lublin and participated in the siege of the fortress at Lublin . At the end of hostilities Liprandi proceeded to implement reforms he had already started beforehand to improve soldier ' s living conditions , which he developed with generals Sabaneev , Kiselev and Vorontsov . After two years the Eletskii Regiment became so outstanding in its performance that on January 28 Liprandi was appointed aide - de - camp to the Tsar , and in 1835 was granted primogeniture in the Polish kingdom . On 26 March 1839 Liprandi was promoted to major general and given command of the King Frederick William III Grenadier Regiment ( later known as the Life Guards of St . Petersburg ) and in 1842 was appointed commander of the Semenov Life Guards Regiment . In 1844 he was granted the Order of Saint Stanislaus 1st class . Still concerned with improving the soldiers ' living conditions , Liprandi created the role of special instruction company commander of a contentment company ( later adopted by the leadership in all parts of the lifeguards ) , built a pumping tower with a filter for the regiment on the coast of the Kryukov Canal and so improved the regiment ' s financial state that he could refuse sending soldiers to voluntary work . Throughout his 17 years commanding various regiments , Liprandi never arrested an officer or private unless he was condemned to corporal punishment , proving that the harsh methods of command more common at that time were prejudiced . In 1848 Liprandi was promoted to lieutenant general , appointed Chief of Staff of the Grenadier Corps and admitted to the Guards Corps , the General Staff and the lists of the Life Guards Semenov regiment . With the announcement in 1849 of the military campaign in Hungary , Ivan Paskevich ' s proposal that Liprandi command the 12th Infantry Division was approved , and in the Crimean War Liprandi was appointed head of the Little Valahskiy unit , to cover the right flank of the Southern Army and protect Lesser Wallachia . He died in 1864 and is buried in St . Petersburg at the Mitrofaniyevskoe cemetery . Issue . His son , Raphael P . , who died in the early 1900s , was a Major General on the General Staff and fought with distinction in the Russo - Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ) , including at the Battle of Shipka Pass , for which he was awarded gold weapons and the Order of St . George 4th class .