Ivan Martinovich Lesovoy

Russia 28.11.1835 – ?
Education
Mihailovskoe Artillery School (1858); Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy in Sankt Petersburg, Russia (1867)
Military service
? 1877-1878 08.07.1878 13.04.1882 21.06.1882 04.04.1883 30.06.1883 28.10.1883 ? 30.01.1893	Chief of the artillery proving ground in Kharkov Military District Served in the siege artillery during the war against Turkey, fighting at Nikopol and in the siege of Plevna Appointed Artillery Inspector of the Bulgarian Army by the Russian Imperial Commissar in Bulgaria, Prince Aleksandr Mihailovich Dondukov-Korsakov Bulgarian Military Minister Left the post of Military Minister Left temporarily the post of Head of the Bulgarian artillery Left definitively the post of Head of the Bulgarian artillery and appointed General Aide-de-camp of Prince Aleksandar of Battenberg Left Bulgaria and resumed his post in the Russian Army, serving at Sankt Petersburg in the Main Artillery Directorate Chief of the 39th Artillery Brigade Retired
Ranks
14.09.1860 30.07.1862 30.08.1862 4.10.1863 16.04.1867 30.08.1870 31.03.1874 10.11.1879 21.04.1881	2nd Lieutenant Ensign of the Imperial Guard 2nd Lieutenant of the Imperial Guard Lieutenant of the Imperial Guard Staff Captain of the Imperial Guard Captain of the Imperial Guard Colonel of the Imperial Guard Mayor General of the Bulgarian Army Mayor General