Person
Prince Alexander Galitzine
- Events
- 1
- Episodes
- 3
- Years
- 1769
Every event in Historedia whose sources name Prince Alexander Galitzine, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.
Events and episodes
Russian Capture of Chocim
1769Role: credited with taking the citadel in 1769
- Russian Capture of Chocim
Russian forces credited to Prince Alexander Galitzine took the Ottoman fortress of Chocim in 1769, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.
- Turkish-Tatar Invasion of Central Ukraine
In January 1769, a seventy-thousand-man Turkish-Tatar army under Crimean Khan Qırım Giray invaded central Ukraine.
- Russian Advance over the Dniester into Moldavia
On September 17, 1769, a week after taking Chocim, the Russians began their initial campaign over the Dniester into Moldavia.
- Russian Capture of Chocim
Sources
- Khotyn Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-25