Talk:Ivan Paskevich

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Was Paskevich a good general?
If anyone knows anything interesting or illuminating about this Paskevich and his career, please share it. As for me, I don't know if he should be credited with having been a good general. His record in war was an almost unbroken string of victories, but those successes may have occured for reasons having little to do with Paskevich's abilities.

I've read that Paskevich was especially indecisive in his handling of the 1848 Hungarian campaign.

Historian John Curtiss, in his The Russian Army under Nicholas I, 1825-1855 maintains that Paskevich's mistakes were a key reason why the Russian army didn't keep up with the pace of modernization that was unfolding in other European armies before the Crimean War. If this is true, Paskevich may have been the architect of the Russian army's demise in the generations following the Napoleonic Wars.

Kenmore 09:48, 14 December 2006 (UTC)kenmore


 * "After the death of Dibich in 1831, Nicholas I came to consider Paskevich as the greatest authority on military affairs, although he could not uphold his reputation in the Hungarian campaign of 1849. During the Crimean War he appeared very aged and infirm..." (biography of Nicholas I on www.museum.ru)


 * I also consulted Svechin's Evolution of Military Art, vol. II: "Paskevich was an admiror of ceremonial marching, a selfish general who was afraid to commit his troups to open battle on account of possible damage to his bloated reputation, acquired by easy victories over the Persians, Poles and Hungarians. Nicholas respected him more than other generals and shared his two ideas of offensive action: 1) all forces should be kept together, secondary interests should be sacrificed for the sake of victory; 2) great attention should be paid to the equipment and amunition of the army. During the Crimean War, Paskevich was afraid more of Austria than of Turkey and planned to advance on the Carpathians rather than the Balkans".


 * Svechin thinks that Paskevich's ideas during the 1812 campaign were basically sound, although he criticized Barclay de Tolly for his procrastination and indecisiveness. He later became a hostage of his reputation and reported to the tsar about the ceremonial marching of his regiments rather than anything else. -- Ghirla -трёп-  15:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Take care with Svechin's work, it was published under USSR and frequently political commitment. Paskevich was known as "Czar's Sword", but Russian political tradition concerning Nicholas the First was too diverse. --80.249.229.122 10:35, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Not "namestnik", but "namiestnik"
The Polish word is namiestnik, and there is a page in English Namiestnik of Poland.

The word namestnik seems wrong, although there is a page Category:Namestniks of the Kingdom of Poland.

The translation is "lieutenant (of the King)" or "viceroy".

Now, it's up to you to fix this problem.

--Jcqrcd44 (talk) 16:34, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

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