2 roubles 2012 Osterman-Tolstoy Russia, MMD
Count Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy (1770 - 1857) - General of Infantry (1817), the heroPatriotic War of 1812. During the war he commanded the 4th Infantry Corps in the 1st Westarmy of Barclay de Tolly, distinguished by the island and at Borodino. In the battle of BorodinoOsterman-Tolstoy fought on battery Rajewski, was wounded, but a few daysreturned to service."... His example encouraged his subordinate forces so that no violent crossfireenemy artillery, attack enemy cavalry could not shake them, and kepthis place before the end of the battle, "Barclay de Tolly, Mikhail Bogdanovich's Ostermann-Tolstoy.
