On September 25, 1771, Nikolai Raevsky, a general, the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, was born. Personal business Nikolai Nikolaevich Raevsky (1771-1829) was born in St. Petersburg. His father, Nikolai Semenovich Raevsky, who served in the Guards Izmailovsky Regiment, was wounded during the Russo-Turkish war and died in April 1771, not having survived before the birth of his son.