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Portrait by George Dawe (Military Gallery of the Winter Palace)
Coat of arms of the counts of Arakcheyev. Motto: By work and diligence. Reduced copy of a real coat of arms.
Count Alexey Andreyevich Arakcheyev or Arakcheev (Russian: граф Алексей Андреевич Аракчеев; b. October 4 [O.S. September 23] 1769 in Garusovo – d. May 3 [O.S. April 21] 1834 in Gruzino) was an Imperial Russian general and statesman during the reign of Tsar Alexander I.
He served under Tsars Paul I and Alexander I as an army commander and Inspector of Artillery. He had a violent temper, but was a competent artillerist, and is known for his reforms of Russian artillery known as the "System of 1805".[1] When Alexander was succeeded by Nicholas I, he lost all his offices.
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