Editing Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin (section)

== Military career ==
Repnin resigned his post to lead troops against the [[Ottoman Empire]] in the [[Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774|Russo-Turkish War]]. At the head of an independent command in [[Moldavia]] and [[Wallachia]], he prevented a large Ottoman army from crossing the [[Pruth]] (1770), distinguished himself at the actions of [[Battle of Larga|Larga]] and [[Battle of Kagul|Kagul]], and captured [[Izmail]] and [[Kiliya|Kilia]]. In 1771 he received the supreme command in Wallachia and occupied [[Bucharest]]. A quarrel with the [[commander-in-chief]], [[Pyotr Rumyantsev|Rumyantsev]], then induced him to send in his resignation, but in 1774 he participated in the capture of [[Silistra|Silistria]] and in the negotiations which led to the [[Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji|peace of Kuchuk-Kainarji]]. In 1775-76 Repnin and his factotum, [[Yakov Bulgakov]], represented Russian interests at the [[Sublime Porte|Porte]].

On the outbreak of the [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] he led 30,000 men to [[Breslau]], and at the subsequent [[congress of Teschen]], where he was Russian plenipotentiary, compelled [[Austria]] to make peace with [[Prussia]].

During the [[Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792|second Turkish war (1787-92)]] Repnin was, after [[Alexander Suvorov]], the most successful of the Russian commanders. He defeated the Ottomans at [[Umbrărești|Salcia]], captured the whole camp of the ''[[seraskier]]'', [[Cenaze Hasan Pasha]], shut him up in Izmail, and was preparing to reduce the place when he was forbidden to do so because of his indecisiveness at the siege (1789). After another unsuccessful siege by [[Pavel Potemkin]], [[Alexander Samoylov|Samoylov]], and [[José de Ribas|de Ribas]], Suvorov, appointed by [[Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin]], [[siege of Izmail|stormed Izmail]]. On the retirement of Potemkin in 1791, Repnin succeeded him as commander-in-chief, and immediately routed the grand vizier [[Battle of Măcin|at Măcin]], a victory which compelled the Ottomans to accept the truce of [[Galaţi]] (31 July 1791).