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Pavel Fedorovich Wistengoff was born on February 4, 1814, in Vyazniki, Vladimir, Russian Federation. He was born in the family of archivist Ivan Fedorovich Vistenhof, a native of Dresden, who accepted Russian citizenship; mother - a native of Alymov.
Pavel Fedorovich received home education; in 1831-1832 he was a volunteer at the verbal department of Moscow University, where he attended lectures with M.Yu. Lermontov.
From 1840 to 1844 Pavel Fedorovich served in the Hussars regiment of the Duke of Leuchtenberg (dismissed by a lieutenant). In 1845 he was appointed to the staff of the Moscow police as a quarterly lieutenant. From 1848 - again in the army, in the Alexandrian Hussar Regiment, with whom Pavel Fedorovich participated in the suppression of the Revolution of 1848-1849 in Hungary, and in 1853-1856 in the Crimean War at the Danube Theater of Operations with the rank of lieutenant under the leadership of Andrei Nikolaevich Karamzin. In 1856 he was transferred to the Poltava regiment, in 1861 - resignation (with the rank of captain and pension). Since 1864 he served in various provinces (including Smolensk, Vyatka) and in various departments (mainly policemen, including the police chief of Simferopol in 1877).
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