Geismar Fedor Klementevich

(1783 - 1848), a native of Westphalia, the service began in the Austrian army, then went to the Russian military service, participated in the Turkish War of 1812. In 1813, the battle of Kulm, Geismar, led by the Cossack regiment, made a spirited attack against the two French teams cuirassiers. In October of that year, taking Weimar before retreating French, Geismar repulsed all the attacks, General Lefebvre and thus saved the city from destruction. In 1825, Mr.. he was commissioned to subdue rebellious Chernigov Regiment, which was broken in a village near the White Church. In the Turkish war of 1828 - 29 g. Geismar, appointed head of a separate unit, successfully fought September 14, 1828, Mr.. attack superior forces viddinskogo seraskira, the village of Slender-billed Parakeet, and the following night he attacked the Turks, who had left the village Boeleshti, smashed them on the day stormed Calafat, and so forced the enemy to go to the right bank of the Danube. Polish war of 1831, Mr.. started unhappily for Geismar, commanding the 2 nd horse hunter division, . he suffered a defeat at the perfect collision with a detachment in the village Dvernitskogo Stoczek; he subsequently regained their military reputation in the battles of Olszynka Grochowska, . Debe-Wilke, and Egan, . as well as in the storming of Warsaw, . where he was severely wounded.,