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Raevsky (Раевский) Aleksander Nikolaevich
(1795—1868)

The older son of general Nikolay Nikolaevich Raevsky. General took his two sons to the Army with him. The older son, Alexander, was 16 and the yonger, Nikolay, was only 11. And these teenagers served to the Fatherland in the age when children usually sit at desks in school. In the battle at Saltanovka they were with their father. In the moment of the offensive attack to the French batteries Raevsky took them with him in at the head of the column of the Smolensk regiment, and he led by the hand his younger son Nikolay... The heroic example of the commander and his sons filled the troops with enthusiasm the soldiers who had lingered under the enemy case-shot, rushed forward and overrun the enemy. Later Colonels Alexander Raevsky was involved in the case of Decembrists.

USSR, 1949, Pushkin reading his poems to Southern Society

USSR, 1949, Pushkin reading his poems to Southern Society