Mikhail Kamensky served as a
volunteer in the French Army in 1758–1759. He then took part in the
Seven Years' War. In 1783, Kamensky was appointed as the
governor general of
Ryazan and
Tambov Governorates. During the
war with Turkey, in 1788, he defeated the Turks at the
Moldavian settlement of Gangur. In the
previous war with the Turks, he had helped
Alexander Suvorov, who had earned a reputation as one of Russia's great generals, to win the victory
at Kozludzha, which ended the war. When prince
Potemkin fell ill and entrusted his command of the army to
Mikhail Kakhovsky, Kamensky refused to subordinate himself, referring to his seniority. For this, he was discharged from military service. On 5 April 1797, Emperor
Paul I granted Kamensky the title of
count in the
Russian Empire and made him retire. In 1806,
Alexander I of Russia appointed him
commander-in-chief of the Russian army in
Prussia, which had been
fighting the French armies of
Napoleon. After six days of being in command, on the eve of the
battle of Pułtusk, he transferred the command to
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Buxhoeveden under pretence of illness and left for his estate near
Oryol. ==Death==