Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Ostermann-Tolstoy.
Count
Alexander Ivanovich Osterman-Tolstoy
Portrait by George Dawe, 1825
Born1770 (1770)
Died(1857-02-12)February 12, 1857 (aged 87)
Geneva, Switzerland
Occupations
  • Military commander
  • diplomat
HonoursOrder of St. George (2nd class)
Military Order of Maria Theresa

Count Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy (or Osterman-Tolstoy; Russian: Александр Иванович Остерман-Толстой, romanized: Aleksandr Ivanovich Osterman-Tolstoy; 1770 – 12 February 1857) was a Russian nobleman, soldier and officer who served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 and in the era of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He belonged to the famous Tolstoy family. Being in numerical inferiority while commanding the rear guard on the first day of the Battle of Kulm, he held out against the onslaught of French forces but lost his left arm.

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