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ROMANZOFF. 



4 vols., 1828); the last of the four volumes is a 

 BMitgraJia dei liomatizi, &c. d Italia. See, also, 

 our articles oil Uie Portuguese, Spanish, and French 



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K< i MAN /OFF, PETER ALKXANDBo\viTscn,count, 

 Rwiian general and field-marshal, born aboutnSO, 

 was descended from an illustrious family, and hav- 

 ing entered into the army when very young, his 

 courage and abilities soon procured him promo- 

 tion. He commanded at the taking of Colberg in 

 1761; and in the following year the death of Peter 

 III. prevented the invasion of Holstein, which he 



was about to undertake at the head of 40,000 men. 

 Catharine II. made peace with the Danes, and, in 

 1769, employed Romanzoft' against the Turks. 

 He succeeded prince A. Galitzin,as commander in- 

 chief, in 1770, and obtained many advantages over 

 the enemy in that and the following years, previ- 

 ously to the treaty into which he forced the grand 

 vizier to enter, in his camp at Kainardgi, in July, 

 1774. He soon after set out for his government of 

 the Ukraine. Romanzoff served against the Turks 

 in the war which began in 1787. He died in De- 

 cember, 1796. 



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