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Peter Hahn (driver)
Peter Hahn von Rottenstern (1799–1873) was a member of the Baltic German nobility, which also belonged to Russian nobility, remembered in the United States mainly as the father of Helena Blavatsky. Early life and marriage Born as the son of the Baltic Germans, Baltic-German Lieutenant-General Axel Heinrich Hahn von Rottenstern (d. 1815) and his wife, Christine Elizabeth von :File:Pröbsting_wapen.svg, Pröbsting (d. 1799), daughter of Magnus Wilhelm von Pröbsting (1731–1788). He was the father of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. A captain of horse artillery, known as Peter von Hahn, whose family came originally from the petty nobility of Mecklenburg, married, in 1830, the 16-year-old Yelena Hahn, Helena Fadeeva. She was the daughter of Princess Helene Dolgoruki, Helena Dolgorukova (1789–1860) and Andrei Fadeev, Andrei Mikhailovich Fadeev (1789–1867), Privy Councillor of the Caucasus, and half his age. Vera, a younger sister of Helene Fadeev, would marry Julius Witte and become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltic German Nobility
Baltic German nobility was a privileged social class in the territories of today's Estonia and Latvia. It existed continuously since the Northern Crusades and the medieval foundation of Terra Mariana. Most of the nobility were Baltic Germans, but with the changing political landscape over the centuries, Polish, Swedish and Russian families also became part of the nobility, just as Baltic German families re-settled in locations such as the Swedish and Russian Empires. The nobility of Lithuania is for historical, social and ethnic reasons separated from the German-dominated nobility of Estonia and Latvia. History This nobility was a source of officers and other servants to Swedish kings in the 16th and particularly 17th centuries, when Couronian, Estonian, Livonian and the Oeselian lands belonged to them. Subsequently Russian Tsars used Baltic nobles in all parts of local and national government. Latvia in particular was noted for its followers of Bolshevism and the latter were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
