Peter Bagration, prince, a Russian general of the Georgian Bagratide family, born about 1765, died Oct. 7, 1812. He entered the Russian army as a common soldier, and first served in the wars against the mountaineers of the Caucasus; then under Suvarotf against the Turks in 1788, when he took part in the storming of Otchakov, and against the Poles in 1794. Under the same general he fought with distinction against the French in Italy and Switzerland (1799). In 1805, under Kutuzoff, he commanded the vanguard in the Austro-Russian campaign; at Znaim he successfully resisted Murat and Lannes, whose forces outnumbered his. Having been created a lieutenant general, he commanded the vanguard of the Austrian army at Austerlitz, under Prince Lichtenstein. In the Prussian campaign of 1807, his resistance made the battle of Eylau so terrible that even Napoleon shuddered at its bloody results. With equal stubbornness he fought at Fried-land. In 1808 he overran Finland, and occupied the Aland isles; and in 1809 he commanded against the Turks, and besieged Silis-tria, though without final success. In 1812 he fought an unsuccessful battle with Davoust at Mobilev, but succeeded nevertheless in joining the Russian main army.

He was mortally wounded at the terrible battle of Mozhaisk or Borodino, Sept. 7, 1812, just a month before he died. He married in 1810 a lady of great beauty and wealth descended from Catharine I. At the congress of Vienna she was one of the leaders of fashion and gallantry, and subsequently lived in Paris in grand style. In 1830 she married secretly Col. Caradoc, afterward known as Lord Howden, from whom she soon separated herself. She died in 185(5.