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Estonia250th Birth Anniversary of Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Date of Issue : 20 October 2011
Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (27 Dec 1761 – 26 May 1818), a Russian General Field Marshal, bearer of all the four classes of the Order of St George, descended from a Baltic nobleman's family of Scottish descent. He was Minister of War during Napoleon's invasion in 1812 and War of the Sixth Coalition.
He was buried on his family estate at Jõgeveste in Estonia where a mausoleum (by architect A Shchedrin, grave monument by V Demut-Malinovski) was completed in 1823.
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