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| Generalissimo Prince Suvorov's 11th Grenadier Fanagoriysky, currently His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich's Regiment | |
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| 11-й Гренадерский Фанагорийский Генералиссимуса Князя Суворова, ныне Его Императорского Высочества Великого Князя Димитрия Павловича полк | |
 Regimental badge | |
| Active | 25 May 1790 – 1918 |
| Country | Russia |
| Allegiance | 3rd Grenadier Division |
| Type | Infantry |
| Patron | Alexander Suvorov-Rymniksky; Dmitri Pavlovich |
| Anniversaries | Regimental holiday – 30 August |
| Engagements | § Military engagements |
| Battle honours | Ribbon of Saint George |
The 11th Fanagoriysky [a] Grenadier Regiment was an infantry unit of the Russian Imperial Army. [1]
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- Precedence — May 25, 1790.
- Regimental holiday — August 30.
- Headquarters — Moscow.
Фанагория, Fanagoriya, ' Phanagoria ', – whence the regiment's name (Fanagoriysky) – is an island and town at mouth of the Kuban River. [2]
In 1790 the Russian Empire, in alliance with Austria, was fighting the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) against the Ottoman Empire. Russia's troops were near the Danube River and in the Caucasus. The commander-in-chief was Prince Potemkin, and Suvorov stood with his detached corps in Birlad (Bârlad in present-day Romania) near the Austrians. Suvorov's command included, among other troops, detached grenadier battalions which had taken part in September 1789 in the Battle of Rymnik, the great victory of Suvorov and of the Austrian General Coburg over Cenaze Hasan Pasha on the river Rymnik, where Russo-Austrian forces defeated enemy troops four times their own strength, and for which Suvorov received the dignity of a Count (Russian : Граф, romanized: Graf) and the victory title Rymniksky. [3] — Here from these battalions Suvorov himself formed his personal, 11th Fanagoriysky Grenadier Regiment. [3]
The Russian Empress Catherine II (r. 1762–1796) at the beginning of her reign, among other transformations, had ordered some grenadier battalions to form a regiment called the 4th Grenadier Regiment; then in 1785 the 4th Grenadier Regiment was ordered to be called the Fanagoriysky, [3] and on 2 April 1790 (N.S. 13 Apr.) Potemkin ordered Suvorov to form and command a Fanagoriysky Regiment. [2] This name and the appointment of Suvorov as the regiment's chief was due to the fact that from 1777 to 1779 Suvorov had commanded a detachment on the Kuban River,—by force and negotiation he had conquered many tribes in the Phanagorian region and joined their lands to Russia. [2]
Private of the 11th Fanagoriysky Grenadier Regiment, 1877–1878
Alexander Suvorov-Rymniksky, portrait by Joseph Kreutzinger (1799)
