Friedrich von Hessen-Darmstadt (September 18, 1677,

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– October 18 1708,

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) was a prince of Hesse-Darmstadt and Russian General. Frederick was the youngest son of Landgrave Louis VI. of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630-1678) and

Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (8 January 1640 – 24 August 1709), was a German regent. She was Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt by marriage to Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Regent of Hesse-Darmstadt during the minority of ...

(1640-1709). Frederick entered service in Rome 1697, like his three older brothers George, Philip and Henry, in protest of his mother, a zealous Protestant. Later he entered the Russian service under

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

and was appointed

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of the cavalry. He participated, along with Peter, in the

battle of Lesnaya The Battle of Lesnaya (russian: Битва при Лесной, Bitva pri Lesnoy; sv, Slaget vid Lesna; pl, Bitwa pod Leśną) was one of the major battles of the Great Northern War. It took place on between a Russian army of between 26,500 a ...

against the Swedes, where he was mortally wounded during a musket exchange. Friedrich was brought to Chavusy in order to recover but died there on October 18, 1708, four days after Lesnaya. Frederick had contributed significantly to the victory of the battle and was permitted the completion of a Catholic church during his burial, by

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Peter I.

Literature

Andreas Räss: ''Die Convertiten seit der Reformation'' pp. 468Carl Friedrich Günther. ''Anekdoten, Charakterschilderungen und Denkwürdigkeiten aus der Hessischen ...'' pp. 154
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Russian military personnel of the Great Northern War 1677 births 1708 deaths Russian generals Sons of monarchs