Johann Jakob Pistor Explained

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.

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