Johann Jakob Pistor

Pistor in a Russian artillery uniform, painting by Johann Werner Kobold

Johann Jakob von Pistor 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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