Uvarov Fedor Petrovich

General of the cavalry. Fyodor Petrovich Uvarov began active service in 1787 in the Sofia Infantry Regiment with the rank of captain. During the Patriotic War, Uvarov commanded the 1st Cavalry Corps, and then the cavalry of the 1st and 2nd armies. In the case of the Kolotsky Monastery, he supported the rearguard of General Konovnitsyn. Uvarov began the Borodino battle while in reserve. On the morning of August 26, 1812, on the orders of Kutuzov, the cavalry of Uvarov and Platov attacked the left flank of the French and went behind enemy lines, causing panic and delaying the attack on the center of the Russian positions. Thus, Kutuzov was able to bring reserves to the Raevsky battery. In 1813 and 1814. Uvarov was under Emperor Alexander I. In 1821 he was appointed commander of the Guards Corps. The portrait is in the Military Gallery. The Military Gallery is one of the galleries of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. The gallery consists of 332 portraits of Russian generals who participated in the Patriotic War of 1812. The portraits were painted by George Doe and his assistants A.V. Polyakov and Golike (German: Wilhelm August Golike) In addition to the portraits painted by Dow, Polyakov and Golike, large equestrian portraits of Alexander I and his allies were placed in the gallery already in the 1830s - King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm III and Emperor of Austria Franz I. The first two were painted by the Berlin court artist F. Kruger, the third - by the Viennese painter P. Kraft. Alexander I conceived the gallery, but it opened already under Nicholas I in 1826. More than three hundred images of generals and field marshals are presented here. The overwhelming majority was written by one artist - the Englishman George Doe, specially invited to Russia.