Johann Jakob Pistor
German general
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Johann Jakob von Pistor (1739 - 1814), also known as Yakov Matveyevich Pistor (Russian: Яков Матвеевич Пистор), was an 18th-century German general who served in the Imperial Russian Army. One of the most notable commanders of Russian forces in the Warsaw Uprising (1794), he authored a memoir on both the fights in Warsaw and the entire Kościuszko's Uprising.
Bibliography
- Johann Jakob Pistor (1806). Mémoires sur la révolution de la Pologne, trouvés a Berlin (in French). Paris. p. 167.
- Johann Jakob Pistor; Bolesław Prawdzic-Chotomski (1906). Pamiętniki o rewolucyi polskiej z roku 1794 (in Polish). Warsaw: Biblioteka Dzieł Wyborowych. p. 150.
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