Paskievitch, a Russian general, born at Poltava; took part in repelling the French in 1812, defeated the Persians in 1826-27 and the Turks in 1828-29; suppressed a Polish insurrection in 1831 and a Magyar revolution in 1849; was wounded at Silistria in 1854 and resigned (1782‒1856).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pasiphaë * Pasquino