Background
Nikolai Dekhterev was born in 1775 in the noble family of the Bobrovsky district.
Nikolai Dekhterev was born in 1775 in the noble family of the Bobrovsky district.
To the service was recorded in 1784 in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment, in 1791 was transferred to the Life Guards Semenovsky Regiment. He served in the Pskov and Kinburn dragoon regiments.
In 1792-1794 he participated in the battles with the Polish Confederates, in 1799 - in a campaign against the French in Switzerland.
Commander of the Petersburg Dragoon Regiment (1801-1808). Chief of the Olviopolsky Hussar Regiment (1808 - after 1812). A participant in the wars of Russia against Napoleon during 1805-1807.
Was retired since 1816.