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Prince Bebutoff, the New Russian Commander-in-Chief in Asia. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 24 November 1855. Volume: 27 , Issue: 771, page 613 Prince Bebutoff. The New Russian Commander-in-Chief in Asia. The absorbing interest that once attached to the long continued conflicts between the Russians and the Turks in the Danubian Principalities has, to a great extent, been transferred to the operations of those two belligerent nations still further East. The brilliant victory obtained by Omer Pacha at the passage of the Ingour, and the consequent insanity of General Mouravieff, the Russian officer in command, have led to the appointment of General Prince Bebutoff as his successor. Russian resembles Roman policy, in that it seeks to incorporate the conquered with the conquerors. In the course of the eventful history of Russian aggrandisement, for every instance ol a hostile kingdom converted into a tranquil province, there is found a reason and an explanation in the extensive and unscrupulous use of bribery as a means of influence. Of all kinds of bribery, honours, titles, and dignities have ever been found the most serviceable, where the aristocracy of a country are the objects of temptation. The Princely rank of the Bebutoff family in the hierarchy of Russian nobility is owing to one of these transactions. For many a year, indeed for many a century, the independent kingdom of Georgia had sustained an unequal but determined struggle with the growing power of the Muscovite-a struggle which, under the Emperor Paul, was rapidly drawing to a close, the domestic dissensions of the Georgians having led to an application for hip interference. At length, in the reign of Alexander, the long-sought result was arrived at: the Georgians were conquered ; and, in the year 1807 t:le loyal family of that country were, by order of the conqueror, invited to come to St. Petersburg, where they obtained Court dignities, Russian titles, and military rank; their country being at the same time converted into a province of Russia. In this distribution the immediate ancestor of the subject of this notice participated. The family of Prince Bebutoff n as of Princely rank in Georgia, and it obtained the same rank in the nobility of Russia. Its members still professed the faith of their forefathers, who had been Armenian Christians. The connection of the family with Georgia led naturally to the selection of Prince Bebutoff for a high command, under Prince Woronzoff, on the frontiers of that province and Asiatic Turkey. He had been previously employed on various services, but on none of a character to bring his name into distinction ; not must he be confounded with his elder brother, General Bebutoff, who was among the Russian Generals wounded in the battles with the Turks on the Danube, and who has been for many years past stationed in Russian Poland. When the present war broke out, the Prince Bebutoff, who is the subject of this memoir, found himself under the general orders of Prince Woronzoff, and commanding a corps in Georgia, the province of which his ancestors had been Princes, with general instructions to watch the Turkish frontier. Reinforcements had very recently been sent from Sebastopol, and Prince Woronzoff had only just concluded a general military inspection. rhe Turkish forces, a part of the army of Anatolia, were under the command of Selim Pacha -a man who subsequently proved himself to be utterly unfit for his position. Under him, among others, was afterwards placed the celebrated General Guyon, but, unfortunately for the Turks, without power to make his will obeyed, or influence to make his opinion respected. In the month of October, 1853, matters were in this state, and the Turkish commanders in Anatolia had received orders from Constantinople not to act on the offensive, and to avoid a combat unless compelled to accept one; but very shortly after an accidental skirmish brought on a general action with 15,000 Russians, who were defeated. This success, however, on the part of the Turks was but a gleam of prosperity, to be soon followed by serious reverses. The Russians received reinforcements which increased their number to 45,000 men, and they were encamped in the neighbourhood of Kars, but on the Georgian frontier; a point from which Prince Bebutoff might without much difficulty, after a successful battle, have menaced Constantinople itself. In most of the engagements between these opposed armies, Prince Bebutoff took a prominent part. Towards the end of November Lieut.- General Prince Andronikoff, with 9000 men, attacked some 10.000 Turks who had advanced against Akatshik. The Turks intrenched themselves at Suplis, but the Russians stormed their camp. After a fierce encounter ... He is like the rest of his family an Armenian Christian. |
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