Aleksei Mikhailovich Chenykhaev

A nobleman, he came from a Tatar family which converted to Orthodoxy. As a child he was sent to the Land Noble Cadet Corps (1779), and from there he joined the army with the rank of Lieutenant (1793). In 1796 he retired with the rank of captain and joined the theater management, where he worked until 1819. He published “Zhizn’ i voennye deianiia <...> Suvorova-Rymnikskogo” ("Life and military actions <...> of Suvorov-Rymniksky") (1800) - an extract from the work by Johann Friedrich Anthing.