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Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky (Михаил Федотович Каменский in Russian) (1738-1809) was a Russian Field Marshal.
Mikhail Kamensky served as a volunteer in the French army in 1758-1759. He then took part in the Seven Years' War. In 1783, Kamensky was appointed Governor General of Ryazan and Tambov. In 1788, he defeated the Turks at Gangur (see Russo-Turkish War, 1787-92). When prince Grigori Potemkin fell ill and entrusted his command of the army to Mikhail Kakhovsky, Kamensky refused to subordinate referring to his seniority. For this, he was discharged from the military service. In 1797, Emperor Paul I granted Kamensky the title of count and made him retire. In 1806, Kamensky was appointed commander-in-chief of the army, which had been fighting the French on the eve of the bloody Battle of Eylau. After six days of being in command, he transferred the command to Feodor Buksgevden under pretence of illness and left for his estate near Orel. Kamensky was killed by one of his serfs in 1809.
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