Battle of Rusçuk (1773)

The battle took place near the walls of Ruse. The Russian army under the command of Colonel N. P. Repnin (brother of General Nikolay Vasilyevich Repnin) thought that they could easily capture this place, relying on their serial successes until 1771. However, Ali Pasha came to the aid of Rusçuk and attacked the Russian army.

The shaken Russian army, including its commander Colonel Repnin, retreated with 1,000 to 3,000 prisoners and 500 dead, while also losing 3 cannons.^[2] After Colonel Repnin's wound was treated, he was sent to Istanbul and imprisoned in Yedikule Fortress.

After this defeat, Field Marshal Pyotr Rumyantsev concentrated on the offensives in Varna, Bulgaria and Silistra, but the Ottoman army won notable victories there as well.