The Russian field marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin,…

August 1757 CE

The Russian field marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin, who had fought under Münnich against the Turks and had risen rapidly to the rank of General, had been present at the taking of Ochakov in 1737 and brought to the Russian capital news about the capture of Khotin in 1739.

Apraksin led a Russian embassy to Persia several years later.
 
At the Russian court, Apraksin had become one of the keenest opponents of both the pro-Prussian party and of Count Lestocq.

He is one of the few devoted supporters of Chancellor Aleksey Bestuzhev, who had ensured Apraksin's promotion to Field Marshal and appointment to command the Russian army on the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756.

Commanding an army of approximately seventy-five thousand men, Apraksin enters East Prussia in 1756 and after a five-day bombardment captures Memel, which becomes the army's base for an invasion of the rest of Prussia.

Apraksin, cautious and lacking war experience, is reluctant to commit his troops to battle.

He tries to encircle the Prussian army of twenty-five thousand five hundred men with his larger army, which Lehwaldt is able to avoid.

Instead of marching on Wehlau, as is expected, ...

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