Career
He came to his death swimming over the Elbe, while trying to break an encirclement by Napoleonic troops at Dessau. He was the prototype of Fedor Dolokhov, a partisan leader in Leo Tolstoy"s War and Peace.
He came to his death swimming over the Elbe, while trying to break an encirclement by Napoleonic troops at Dessau. He was the prototype of Fedor Dolokhov, a partisan leader in Leo Tolstoy"s War and Peace.