 Pyotr Melissino

Pyotr Ivanovich Melissino (, , ); c. 1726 – c. 1797) was a General of the Artillery of the Russian Empire and was widely considered the best Russian artilleryman of the 18th century.He was born as Petros Melissinos in 1726, on the Greek island of Cephalonia, which was then under Venetian rule.