Mozhaisky biography

In the year, Alexander entered the Marine Cadet Corps, finished it in the year and served in the Baltic. The most striking event of the naval biography of the young officer was a campaign on the Diana frigate, which left Kronstadt on October 4, to change the wiped frigate of Pallada, on which Admiral E. Diana commander S. Fregat was accompanied by a diplomatic mission in Japan.

"Brave", in favorable weather, towed a sailboat. Next, the ship moved alone. At this time, they expected a breakdown of diplomatic relations with England. Therefore, only at the Canary Islands lingered for a short while, then they went to Rio de Janeiro, curled Cape Horn and, after repairs in Valparaiso, arrived at the Hawaiian Islands. It became known here that the war of Russia with England and France began and that enemy ships appeared in Pacific waters.

Lesovsky left Gonolulu and on June 11, he connected with a detachment of Putyatin in the de-Kastri Bay. Such swimming in itself was a good school for a young sailor. But he was waiting for an even more severe test. In mid-September, despite the danger of meeting with the Anglo-French squadron, Putyatin went to Japan. On the morning of December 11, the earthquake caused a tsunami, a flushing city.

The frigate, due to a sharp change in water level, was so shaking for several hours that its body could not stand it. Later, a fragment of keel was found on the shore. Having somehow corrected the damage, the Russian sailors with the help of the Japanese tried to transfer the fragment for repair to Simoda Bay, but the flooding flurry destroyed the frigate completely. With other crew members, Mozhaisky was on the shore.

Soon Putyatin sent Lesovsky with 8 officers and sailors on the American schooner in Petropavlovsk, among the officers there was also Mozhaisky. Since Russian ships left the port after his heroic defense, the sailors on another American schooner moved to de-Kastri. In the summer of the year, A. Mozhaisky commanded the Amur Flotilla from small vessels and cannon vehicles "Dvina". In the fall, he returned to Russia and presented to Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich Album with the watercolors of Japan.

For participation in the campaign of Diana and the command of the flotilla, the captain-lieutenant was awarded on November 30, the Order of St. Stanislav II degree, and on August 26-a bronze medal on the St. Andrew's tape “In memory of the war-gg. In the year, Mozhaisky was appointed to the expedition of the Russian Military Mission to Khiva and Bukhara, served in the Khiva expedition led by A.

Butakov and on March 23, after the successful completion of the mission, he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the IV degree. After the Crimean War on the Paris world, Russia lost the right to hold the fleet on the Black Sea. Officers who did not find places on ships after reducing their number were given the opportunity to engage in other activities. Since October 21, Captain-Lieutenant Mozhaisky was on a four-month vacation to draw up the charter letters and in November married summer Lyubov Dmitrievna Kuzmina, the daughter of the court adviser.

She died in the year, leaving her sons: Alexander two years and Nikolai - two months. In the year, Mozhaisky served as a candidate of the world mediator of the Gryazovets district of the Vologda province. All this time, the sailor was listed in the fleet. At the beginning of the year, he was produced in captains of the 2nd rank, and in March was fired for service on commercial ships.

He served in the Baltic and received "the gratitude of his imperial majesty for the construction of rescue boats and stations in the Baltic Sea." In April, having received the rank of captain of the 1st rank, Mozhaisky entered the Joint-Stock Russian Society of Shipping and Trade Ropit, whose director, N. Chikhachev, met in the Far East. With the death of his brother, Nikolai Alexander Mozhaisky, became the guardian of his children and ruled the estate in the Barslav district of the Podolsk province; Since the year, he has been an honorary justice of the peace of the Bartslav district and in August was approved in this position continuing to be listed in Ropit.

However, on May 26, the sailor was again called up to the fleet.

From November to May, he was a temporary member of the Naval Court at the St. Petersburg Port. Long -term service on land allowed A. Mozhaisky to engage in aeronautics. Links on the topic:.