Aleksandr Barley branch

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Aleksandr Daniłowicz Gerstenzweig (Russian: Александр Данилович Герштенцвейг) (born 1818, died 24 October 1861 in Warsaw) - Russian general lieutenant from 1861, general adjutant from 1859, military general of Warsaw since August 1861. from a Polish aristocratic family with German roots.

In 1837 he graduated from the officer school. 1848-1849 participated in the suppression of the uprising in Hungary. In 1855 he was appointed General-Major, and in 1859 he was General-Lieutenant. On October 15, 1861, he commanded the action of the invasion of Russian troops in the cathedral of St. John in Warsaw to pacify the civilians gathered there to commemorate the anniversary of Tadeusz Kosciuszko's death. He committed suicide. He was awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir III and IV, Order of Saint Anne I and II, Order of St. Stanislaus I and III, Order of the Leopold of Austria, Order of the Red Eagle II and III, Prussian Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.

He was the grandson of the Polish commander from the time of the founding of the Kościuszko General Antoni Madaliński. Bibliography

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