The Imperial Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky was an
order of chivalry
An order of chivalry, order of knighthood, chivalric order, or equestrian order is an order (distinction), order of knights, typically founded during or inspired by the original Catholic Military order (religious society), military orders of the ...
of the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
first awarded on by Empress
Catherine I of Russia
Catherine I ( rus, Екатери́на I Алексе́евна Миха́йлова, Yekaterína I Alekséyevna Mikháylova; born , ; – ) was the second wife and empress consort of Peter the Great, and Empress Regnant of Russia from 1725 un ...
.
History
The introduction of the Imperial Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky was envisioned by Emperor
Peter I of Russia
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 ...
(r. 1682–1721) for rewarding military bravery in battle. However, he died before he could create the order. It was established by Empress
Catherine I of Russia
Catherine I ( rus, Екатери́на I Алексе́евна Миха́йлова, Yekaterína I Alekséyevna Mikháylova; born , ; – ) was the second wife and empress consort of Peter the Great, and Empress Regnant of Russia from 1725 un ...
, in memory of the deeds of
Saint Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (russian: Александр Ярославич Невский; ; 13 May 1221 – 14 November 1263) served as Prince of Novgorod (1236–40, 1241–56 and 1258–1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1236–52) and Grand P ...
, patron Saint of the Russian capital of
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
, for defending Russia against foreign invaders. The order was originally awarded to distinguished Russian citizens who had served their country with honor, mostly through political or military service.
It was first awarded on the occasion of the wedding of
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (russian: А́нна Петро́вна; 27 January 1708 – 4 March 1728) was the eldest daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and his wife Empress Catherine I. Her younger sister, Empress Elizabeth, ...
and
Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Charles Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp () (30 April 1700 – 18 June 1739) was a Prince of Sweden and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp and an important member of European royalty. His dynasty, the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Gott ...
in 1725. A dozen guests received the reward, and the order quickly fell far behind the
Order of Saint Andrew
The Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called (russian: Орден Святого апостола Андрея Первозванного, translit=Orden Svyatogo apostola Andreya Pervozvannogo) is the highest order conferred by both the ...
and the
Order of Saint Catherine
The Imperial Order of Saint Catherine (russian: Императорский Орден Святой Екатерины) was an award of Imperial Russia. Instituted on 24 November 1714 by Peter the Great on the occasion of his marriage to Catherine ...
in prestige.
The Empress Catherine complained about the situation and by September 1725, she took it upon herself to determine who would receive the award. The Order of Saint Alexander was granted the highest esteem and was not usually bestowed upon people below the rank of Lieutenant-General or an equal political status. It also granted hereditary nobility. Additionally it was, including Polish King Augustus II the Strong
Augustus II; german: August der Starke; lt, Augustas II; in Saxony also known as Frederick Augustus I – Friedrich August I (12 May 16701 February 1733), most commonly known as Augustus the Strong, was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as Ki ...
and King Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway
Legacy
The Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky was abolished after the 1917 Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...
, along with all other orders and titles of the Russian Empire.
In 1942, the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
revived the order as a purely military decoration
Military awards and decorations are distinctions given as a mark of honor for military heroism, meritorious or outstanding service or achievement. DoD Manual 1348.33, 2010, Vol. 3 A decoration is often a medal consisting of a ribbon and a medal ...
and renamed it the more secular Order of Alexander Nevsky
The Order of Alexander Nevsky ( ''orden Alexandra Nevskogo'') is an order of merit of the Russian Federation named in honour of saint Alexander Nevsky (1220–1263) and bestowed to civil servants for twenty years or more of highly meritorious se ...
, and the Russian Federation
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
revived it in 2010.
The heads of the Russian Imperial House in exile have continued to award the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, a pretender to the Russian throne and to the headship of the Russian Imperial House, continues to award a Russian Imperial Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky as a dynastic order of knighthood. These actions are disputed by some members of the Romanov family.
In 2010, researchers in Saint Petersburg and Moscow published a book of all the names of the recipients of the original order. The combined number of honorees spanning the years 1725 to 1917 totaled 3,674.
Insignia ''Order St Alexander Nevsky''
Badge to Order St Alexander Nevsky 1820-1830.jpg, Cross version, edition 1820-1830 (front)
Badge to Order St Alexander Nevsky 1865.jpg, version issued in 1865 in gold on black enamel
Star to Order St Alexander Nevsky embroidered.jpg, Staer version from silver-thread embroidery on white leather, edition ca 1840
Recipients
* Abbas II of Egypt
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* Adam Olsufiev
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* Count Nikolay Adlerberg
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Biography
Ni ...
* Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg
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* Afonso, Prince of Beira
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''Afonso de Santa Maria Miguel ...
* Ahmad Shah Qajar
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Ahmad Shah was born in Tabriz on 21 Janu ...
* Albert I of Belgium
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Born in Brussels as the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-S ...
* Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872)
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* Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg
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Biography Family and early life
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* Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen
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* Albert, Prince Consort
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Albert was born in the Saxon duch ...
* Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev
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* Alexander I of Russia
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The son of ...
* Alexander II of Russia
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* Alexander III of Russia
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* Alexander Kurakin (1697)
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* Alexander Nikolaevich Golitsyn
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* Duke Alexander of Oldenburg
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, father = Duke Peter of Oldenburg
, mother = Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg
, birth_date =
, birth_place =St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
, death_date =
, ...
* Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771–1833)
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* Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
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* Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo
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* Ippolit Andreev
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* Ivane Andronikashvili
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* Fyodor Apraksin
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* Prince Arisugawa Takehito
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Early life
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* Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
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Prince Arisugawa Taruhito was born in Kyoto in 18 ...
* Prince August, Duke of Dalarna
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* Prince August of Württemberg
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, spouse = Marie Bethge
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, mother =Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen
, ...
* Prince Augustus of Prussia
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* Theodor Avellan
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* Karl Gustav von Baggovut
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* Pyotr Bagration
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* Pyotr Romanovich Bagration
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* Alexander Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn
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* Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
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* Joachim Otto von Bassewitz
* Vasili Bebutov
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* Constantine Esperovich Beloselsky-Belozersky
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He was born on 16 June 1843 to Prince Esper Alexandrovitch Beloselsky-Belozersky and E ...
* Alexander von Benckendorff (diplomat)
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* Andrew Bertie
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* Aleksei Birilev
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* Otto von Bismarck
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* Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
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* Georgy Bobrikov
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* Nikolai Bobyr
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* Julius von Bose
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* Nikolai von Bunge
* Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland
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* Carlos I of Portugal
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* Charles X
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* Charles XIII
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* Charles XV
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* Zakhar Chernyshev
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After made a courtier to then-Princess Sophie of Anha ...
* Piotr Grigoryevich Chernyshev
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* Christian IX of Denmark
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* Andrzej Ciechanowiecki
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* Mikhail Pavlovich Danilov
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*Second Lieutenant: 1846 ...
* Nikolay Ivanovich Demidov
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* Porfirio Díaz
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* Hans Karl von Diebitsch
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* Dmitry Dashkov
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* Dmitry Petrovich Dokhturov
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* Poruchik (April 23, 1859)
* Stabskapitän ...
* Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky
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* Mikhail Drozdovsky
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* Fyodor Dubasov
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* Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan
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* Alexander Alexandrovich Dushkevich
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* Andrei Eberhardt
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* Edward VII
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* Johann Martin von Elmpt
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* Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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* Vladimir Etush
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* Archduke Eugen of Austria
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* Aleksei Evert
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* Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
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, predecessor = Himself as Prince
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, reig ...
* Ferdinand II of Portugal
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* Ferdinand VII of Spain
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, father = Charles IV of Spain
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, birth_place = El Escorial, Spain
, death_date =
, death_place = Madrid, Spain
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* Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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* Francis IV, Duke of Modena
Francis IV Joseph Charles Ambrose Stanislaus (Italian: ''Francesco IV Giuseppe Carlo Ambrogio Stanislao d'Asburgo-Este''; 6 October 1779 – 21 January 1846) was Duke of Modena, Reggio, and Mirandola (from 1815), Duke of Massa and Prince of Carr ...
* Franz Joseph I of Austria
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the Grand title of the Emperor of Austria, other states of the Habsburg m ...
* Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (17 December 1802 – 8 March 1878) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was the father of two emperors: Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico. Through his third son Karl Lu ...
* Frederick VI of Denmark
Frederick VI (Danish and no, Frederik; 28 January 17683 December 1839) was King of Denmark
The monarchy of Denmark is a constitutional political system, institution and a historic office of the Kingdom of Denmark. The Kingdom includes ...
* Frederick VII of Denmark
Frederick VII (Frederik Carl Christian; 6 October 1808 – 15 November 1863) was King of Denmark from 1848 to 1863. He was the last Danish monarch of the older Royal branch of the House of Oldenburg and the last king of Denmark to rule as an ...
* Frederick VIII of Denmark
Frederick VIII ( da, Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl; 3 June 1843 – 14 May 1912) was King of Denmark from 29 January 1906 until his death in 1912.
The eldest son of King Christian IX, nicknamed the ''Father-in-law of Europe'', Frederic ...
* Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden
Frederick I (german: Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig; 9 September 1826 – 28 September 1907) was the Grand Duke of Baden from 1858 to 1907.
Life
Frederick was born in Karlsruhe, Baden, on 9 September 1826. He was the third son of Leopold, Gra ...
* Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763 – 5 January 1827) was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. A soldier by profess ...
* Frederick William III of Prussia
Frederick William III (german: Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, wh ...
* Prince Frederick of the Netherlands
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (full names: Willem Frederik Karel; 28 February 1797, in Berlin – 8 September 1881, in Wassenaar), was the second son of William I of the Netherlands and his wife, Wilhelmine of Pru ...
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* Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen (Friedrich Maria Albrecht Wilhelm Karl; 4 June 1856 – 30 December 1936) was a member of the House of Habsburg and the supreme commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I.
Early life
Frie ...
* Ivan Fullon
Ivan Alexandrovich Fullon (July 23 (Aug. 4), 1844 – 1920) was an Imperial Russian division and corps commander. He participated in the suppression of the rebellion in Poland and the war against the Ottoman Empire.
Awards
*Order of Saint Anna, 4t ...
* Prince Fushimi Sadanaru
was the 22nd head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke (branch of the Imperial Family). He was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Early life
Prince Sadanaru was born in Kyoto as the fourteenth son of Prince Fushimi Kuniie (1802–187 ...
* Ivan Ganetsky
Ivan Stepanovich Ganetsky (October 8, 1810 – 1887) was an Imperial Russian division commander. He fought in wars in the Caucasus, Poland and against the Ottoman Empire.
Biography
Born on 26 September (8 October) 1810 in the noble dvoryan Ganet ...
* Ivan Gannibal
Ivan Abramovich Gannibal (russian: Иван Абрамович Ганнибал; June 5, 1735 – October 12, 1801) was an eminent Russian military leader. He was the son of military commander, general and engineer Abram Petrovich Gannibal, as w ...
* Gavriil Gagarin
Prince Gavriil Petrovich Gagarin (January 20, 1745 – January 31, 1808 (1807), Bogoslovskoye village, Dmitrovsky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate) was a Russian writer, Governing Senate, senator and minister of the Gagarin family. Active Privy Councill ...
* George IV
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten y ...
* George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936.
Born duri ...
* George Mikhailovich Romanov
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (russian: Георгий Михайлович Романов, Georgiy Mikhaylovich Romanov, also spelled ''Romanoff''; german: Georg Mikhailowitsch Romanow; born 13 March 1981) is the heir apparent to Ma ...
* Aleksandr Gerngross
Baron Alexandr Alekseyevich Gerngross (russian: Александр Алексеевич Гернгросс) (4 August 1851 – 17 March 1925) was a general of Dutch origin who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the late 19th and early 20th ...
* Alexander von Güldenstubbe
Magnus Alexander Ludwig von Güldenstubbe (, tr. ; ) was a Baltic German general of the Imperial Russian Army and commanded the Moscow Military District from 1864 to 1879. He participated in November Uprising in Poland and the Crimean War.
...
* August Neidhardt von Gneisenau
August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (27 October 176023 August 1831) was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the reform of the Prussian military and the War of Liberation.
Early life
Gneisenau was born at Schild ...
* Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn the Elder
Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn (russian: Дмитрий Михайлович Голицын, Golitsyn, ɡɐˈlʲitsɨn; 16651737) was a Russian aristocrat of the Golitsyn family. A cousin of Prince Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn, he was noted fo ...
* Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn the Younger
Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn or Gallitzin (Russian: Дмитрий Михайлович Голицын; German: ''Demetrius Michalowitsch von Gallitzin''; born 15 May 1721 in Abo, died 19 September 1793 in Vienna) was a Russian diplomat, p ...
* Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (12 August 1843 – 19 April 1916), also known as ''Goltz Pasha'', was a Prussian Field Marshal and military writer.
Military career
Goltz was born in , East Prussia (later renamed Goltzhausen; n ...
* Nikolay Gondatti
Nikolay Lvovich Gondatti (December 3, 1860 – April 5, 1946) was a Russian statesman, a researcher of Northern and Northeastern Siberia. Stallmeister of the Court of His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Active State Councillor. A member of many Rus ...
* Gregory IV of Antioch
Patriarch Gregory IV ( ar, البطريرك غريغوريوس الرابع ; born Ġanṭūs Ḥaddād ; July 1, 1859 – December 12, 1928) was the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch from 1906 to 1928. He was a recipient of the Order of Saint Al ...
* Oskar Gripenberg
Oskar Ferdinand Gripenberg (russian: Оскар-Фердинанд Казимирович Гриппенберг, Oskar-Ferdinand Kazimirovich Grippenberg; 13 January 1838 – 7 January 1916) was a Finnish-Swedish general of the Russian Second M ...
* Curtis Guild Jr.
Curtis Guild Jr. (February 2, 1860 – April 6, 1915) was an American journalist, soldier, diplomat and politician from Massachusetts. He was the 43rd Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1906 to 1909. Prior to his election as governor, Guil ...
* Wladyslaw Gurowski
* Gustaf V
Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf; 16 June 1858 – 29 October 1950) was King of Sweden from 8 December 1907 until his death in 1950. He was the eldest son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau, a half-sister of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxem ...
* Gustaf VI Adolf
Gustaf VI Adolf (Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf; 11 November 1882 – 15 September 1973) was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death in 1973. He was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden. Before Gustaf Ado ...
* Gustav, Prince of Vasa
Prince Gustav of Vasa, Count Itterburg (german: Gustav, Prinz von Wasa; 9 November 1799 at Stockholm – 4 August/5 August 1877 at Pillnitz), born Crown Prince of Sweden, was the son of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen Frederica. His Austr ...
* Haakon VII of Norway
Haakon VII (; born Prince Carl of Denmark; 3 August 187221 September 1957) was the King of Norway from November 1905 until his death in September 1957.
Originally a Danish prince, he was born in Copenhagen as the son of the future Frederick V ...
* John Maurice Hauke
Count Hans Johann Moritz von Hauke (John Maurice Hauke, pl, Jan Maurycy Hauke; 26 October 1775 – 29 November 1830) was a Polish general and professional soldier of German extraction. He was a member of the Hauke-Bosak family.
Life
Hans Moritz ...
* Lodewijk van Heiden
Lodewijk Sigismund Vincent Gustaaf Reichsgraf van Heiden (german: Ludwig Sigismund Vinzent Gustav Reichsgraf van Heyden, russian: Ло́ггин Петро́вич Ге́йден, transliterated Russian name: ''Loggin Petrovich Geyden''; 6 Septemb ...
* Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen
Heinrich XV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (22 February 1751 – 30 August 1825) was the fourth of six sons born into the reigning family of the Principality of Reuss. At the age of fifteen he joined the army of the Habsburg monarchy and later fought again ...
* Gregor von Helmersen
Gregor von Helmersen or Grigory Petrovich Helmersen (russian: Григорий Петрович Гельмерсен, – ) was a Baltic German geologist.
Biography
Helmersen was born in Duckershof, Livonia (now in Estonia) and went to boar ...
* Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846)
Prince Frederick Henry Charles of Prussia (german: Friedrich Heinrich Karl; 30 December 1781, Berlin - 12 July 1846, Rome) was a Prussian prince and army officer.
Life
Henry was a son of Frederick William II of Prussia (1744-1797) by his second w ...
* Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1825–1901)
Hermann George Bernard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (4 August 1825 at Altenstein Castle – 31 August 1901 in Berchtesgaden) was Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Duke of Saxony, and a general in the Württemberger army.
Life
Hermann was the t ...
* Gavriil Ignatyev
Gavriil Alexandrovich Ignatyev (; 1786 – 24 March 1852) was an Imperial Russian Army general of artillery who led the defence of the Babruysk fortress and the city of Babruysk from Napoleon's forces in 1812.
Honours and awards
* Order of St. A ...
* Illarion Illarionovich Vasilchikov
Illarion Illarionovich Vasilchikov (1805 – 12 November 1862) was an Imperial Russian general. He was the son of Illarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikov and Vera Vasilchikova. He was the father of Sergei Vasilchikov. One of his daughters married Alexa ...
* Alexander Imeretinsky
Alexander Konstantinovich Bagration-Imeretinsky ( ka, ალექსანდრე კონსტანტინეს ძე ბაგრატიონ-იმერეტინსკი (''Aleksandre Konstantines dze Bagration-Imeretinski' ...
* Ivan Cherkasov
Baron (from 1742) Ivan Antonovich Cherkasov (6 February 1692 — 30 October 1758) was a Russian statesman, privy councillor, cabinet secretary to Peter the Great, Catherine I and Elizabeth Petrovna. From him comes the baronial clan of Cherkasovs. ...
* Archduke John of Austria
Archduke John of Austria (german: Erzherzog Johann Baptist Joseph Fabian Sebastian von Österreich; 20 January 1782 – 11 May 1859), a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, was an Austrian field marshal and imperial regent (''Reichsverwese ...
* Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (5 December 1825 – 27 May 1911) was the ninth of the ten children of Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kasse ...
* John VI of Portugal
, house = Braganza
, father = Peter III of Portugal
, mother = Maria I of Portugal
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Queluz Palace, Queluz, Portugal
, death_date =
, death_place = Bemposta Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
, ...
* Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Joseph Georg Friedrich Ernst Karl, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (27 August 1789, in Hildburghausen – 25 November 1868, in Altenburg), was a Duke of Saxe-Altenburg.
Biography
He was the second but first surviving son of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildbu ...
* Kyprian Kandratovich
Kyprian Antonovich Kandratovich ( be, Кіпрыян Кандратовіч, Kipryjan Kandratovič, April 29, 1859 – October 31, 1932) was an Imperial Russian corps commander and the appointed commander of the armed forces of the short-lived Bel ...
* Prince Kan'in Kotohito
was the sixth head of a cadet branch of the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940. During his tenure as the Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army Gene ...
* Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern
, spouse = Princess Josephine of Baden
, issue = Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern Stephanie, Queen of Portugal Carol I, King of Romania Prince Anthony Prince Frederick Princess Marie, Countess of Flanders
, house = Hohenzo ...
* Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Karl Philipp, Fürst zu Schwarzenberg (or Charles Philip, Prince of Schwarzenberg; 18/19 April 1771 – 15 October 1820) was an Austrian Generalissimo. He fought in the Battle of Wagram (1809) but the Austrians lost decisively against Napoleo ...
* Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria
en, Charles Theodore Maximilian Augustus
, spouse =
, issue =
, house = Wittelsbach
, father = Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
, mother = Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt
, birth_date =
, birth_pl ...
* Alexander von Kaulbars
Alexander Wilhelm Andreas Freiherr von Kaulbars (russian: Александр Васильевич Каульбарс, translit=Aleksandr Vasil'evič Kaul'bars; 25 January 1925) was a Baltic German military leader who served in the Imperial Russi ...
* Paisi Kaysarov
Paisi Sergeevich Kaysarov (''Paisii Sergeevich Kaisarov''; russian: Паи́сий Серге́евич Кайса́ров; 23 May 1783 – 27 February 1844) was a Russian general who served during the Napoleonic Wars.
Biography Early life
Kaisar ...
* Amanullah Khan
Ghazi Amanullah Khan (Pashto and Dari: ; 1 June 1892 – 25 April 1960) was the sovereign of Afghanistan from 1919, first as Emir and after 1926 as King, until his abdication in 1929. After the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in August 1919, ...
* Mikhail Khilkov
Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Khilkov (also spelled Chilkoff, Chilkov, Khilkoff, Hilkof and other variants) (russian: Михаил Иванович Хилков) (18 December .S. 6 December 1834 - 8 March 1909) was a Russian railroad executive. He was ...
* Pyotr Kikin
Pyotr Andreyevich Kikin (Russian: Пётр Андре́евич Ки́кин; 27 December 1775, Alatyr – 18 May 1834, Saint Petersburg?) was a Russian general and a Secretary of State under Tsar Alexander I.
Biography
He was one of twelve ch ...
* Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen
Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Count of Doggerbank (1 May 1735 – 24 May 1819), was a Dutch naval officer. Having had a good scientific education, Van Kinsbergen was a proponent of fleet modernization and wrote many books about naval organization, d ...
* Hugo von Kirchbach
Hugo Ewald Graf von Kirchbach (23 May 1809 – 26 October 1887) was a Prussian general who commanded the Prussian V Corps during the Franco-Prussian War.
Biography
He was born in 1809 at Środa Śląska, Neumarkt in Silesia, to the Kingdom o ...
* Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa
of Japan, was the second head of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family. He was formerly enshrined in Tainan-Jinja, Taiwan, under the name ''Kitashirakawa no Miya Yoshihisa-shinnō no Mikoto'' as the main and only deity.
Biograp ...
* Johann von Klenau
Johann Josef Cajetan Graf von Klenau, Freiherr von Janowitz ( cs, Jan hrabě z Klenové, svobodný pán z Janovic; 13 April 1758 – 6 October 1819) was a field marshal in the Habsburg army. Klenau, the son of a Bohemian noble, joined the Ha ...
* Hans von Koester
Hans Ludwig Raimund von Koester (29 April 1844 – 21 February 1928) was a German naval officer who served in the Prussian Navy and later in the Imperial German Navy. He retired as a Grand Admiral.
Career overview
Born Hans Ludwig Raimund Koeste ...
* Prince Komatsu Akihito
was a Japanese career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who was a member of the Fushimi-no-miya, one of the ''shinnōke'' branches of the Imperial Family of Japan, which were eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
Biography
Early ...
* Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia ( rus, Константи́н Константи́нович, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ, a=Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov.ru.vorb.oga; 22 August 1858 – 15 June 1915 ...
* Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (21 September 1827 – 25 January 1892) was the Emperor's Viceroy of Poland from 1862 to 1863.
Early life
Konstantin Nikolayevich was born as the second son of Nicholas I and his wife, Charlotte ...
* Konstantin of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name ''Constantinus'' (Constantine) in some European languages, such as Russian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. ...
* Johann Albrecht Korff
Baron Johann Albrecht von Korff (November 30, 1697 – April 7, 1766) was a Russian diplomat, and was the president of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1734–1740).
A native of Courland, he moved through his service at the court duchess ...
* Apostol Kostanda
Apostol Spiridonovich Kostanda (December 24, 1817 – December 5, 1898) was an Imperial Russian division commander. He fought in wars in Crimea and Poland. He commanded the military forces in Moscow from 1888 to 1896.
Awards
*Order of Saint Anna, ...
* Wincenty Krasinski
* Mikhail Krechetnikov
Michael N. Krechetnikov (russian: Михаил Никитич Кречетников, 1729, Moscow, Russian Empire – 9 May 1793, Medzhybizh, Podolie Vice-Royalty, Russian Empire) was a Russian military commander and General of Infantry (General-i ...
* Alexey Kurakin
Prince Alexei Borisovich Kurakin (19 September 1759 – 30 December 1829) was a Russian statesman, Active Privy Councillor, 1st class, Active Privy Councillor of the 1st class (1826), who held a number of top positions in the reign of Paul I of R ...
* Boris Kurakin (1733)
Prince Boris–Leonty Alexandrovich Kurakin (1733 – 1764) was a Russian statesman, clerk, senator.
Biography
The son of the Chief Stahlmeister, Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin and Alexandra Ivanovna, née Panina. Nothing is known of hi ...
* Aleksey Kuropatkin
Aleksey Nikolayevich Kuropatkin (russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Куропа́ткин; March 29, 1848January 16, 1925) served as the Russian Imperial Minister of War from January 1898 to February 1904 and as a field command ...
* Mikhail Kutuzov
Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov ( rus, Князь Михаи́л Илларио́нович Голени́щев-Куту́зов, Knyaz' Mikhaíl Illariónovich Goleníshchev-Kutúzov; german: Mikhail Illarion Golenishchev-Kut ...
* Sergey Stepanovich Lanskoy
Sergey Stepanovich Lanskoy (russian: Серге́й Степа́нович Ланско́й; - ) was the Russian Minister of the Interior from 1855 to 1861, being inaugurated during a reform-minded era and dismissed after the Emancipation Refor ...
* Mikhail Lazarev
Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (russian: Михаил Петрович Лазарев, 3 November 1788 – 11 April 1851) was a Russian Naval fleet, fleet commander and an explorer.
Education and early career
Lazarev was born in Vladimir, R ...
* Leopold I of Belgium
* nl, Leopold Joris Christiaan Frederik
* en, Leopold George Christian Frederick
, image = NICAISE Leopold ANV.jpg
, caption = Portrait by Nicaise de Keyser, 1856
, reign = 21 July 1831 –
, predecessor = Erasme Loui ...
* Leopold II of Belgium
* german: link=no, Leopold Ludwig Philipp Maria Viktor
, house = Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
, father = Leopold I of Belgium
, mother = Louise of Orléans
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Brussels, Belgium
, death_date = ...
* Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt
Leopold IV Frederick, Duke of Anhalt (1 October 1794 – 22 May 1871) was a German prince of the House of Ascania.
From 1817 until 1853 he was ruler of the duchy of Anhalt-Dessau and from 1847 until 1853 also ruler of the duchy of Anhalt-Köthen. ...
* Alexander Mikhailovich Lermontov
Alexander Mikhailovich Lermontov (27 February 1838 – 26 December 1906) was an Imperial Russian division commander. He participated in the war against the Ottoman Empire.
Awards
*Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class, 1863
*Order of Saint Stanislaus ...
* George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg
Prince George Maximilianovich Romanowsky, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg (29 February 1852 – 16 May 1912), also known as Prince Georgii Romanovsky or Georges de Beauharnais, was the youngest son of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg a ...
* Sergei Georgievich, 8th Duke of Leuchtenberg
Prince Sergei Georgievich Romanowsky, 8th Duke of Leuchtenberg (4 July 1890 – 7 January 1974) was the son of Prince George Maximilianovich Romanowsky, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg and his second wife Princess Anastasia of Montenegro. He succeeded h ...
* Levan V Dadiani
Levan V Dadiani ( ka, ლევან V დადიანი; 1793 – 30 July 1846), of the House of Dadiani, was Prince of Mingrelia, in western Georgia, from 1804 to 1846. Succeeding on the death of his father Grigol Dadiani, he ruled—initial ...
* Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
English: Frederick William Louis Charles
, house = Hesse-Darmstadt
, father = Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine
, mother = Princess Elisabeth of Prussia
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Prinz-Carl-Palais, Darmstadt, Gra ...
* Louis XVIII
Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. He spent twenty-three years in ...
* Prince Louis of Battenberg
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, (24 May 185411 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related by marriage to the British ...
* Friedrich von Löwis of Menar
Friedrich von Löwis of Menar (russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Левиз, translit=Fëdor Fëdorovič Leviz; ) was a Baltic German lieutenant-general of Scottish origin, who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars ...
* Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria
Archduke Ludwig Viktor Joseph Anton of Austria (15 May 1842 – 18 January 1919) was the youngest child of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and his wife Princess Sophie of Bavaria, and as such was the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I. H ...
* Luís I of Portugal
Dom Luís I (31 October 1838, in Lisbon – 19 October 1889, in Cascais), known as The Popular (Portuguese: O Popular) was a member of the ruling House of Braganza,"While remaining patrilineal dynasts of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha accord ...
* Manuel II of Portugal
''Dom'' Manuel II (15 November 1889 – 2 July 1932), "the Patriot" ( pt, "o Patriota") or "the Unfortunate" (), was the last King of Portugal, ascending the throne after the assassination of his father, King Carlos I, and his elder brother, ...
* Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia (russian: Мария Владимировна Романова; born 23 December 1953) has been a claimant to the headship of the Imperial Family of Russia (who reigned as Emperors and Autocrats of all ...
* Mikhail Matyushkin
* Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin german: Friedrich Wilhelm Nicolas
, spouse = Alexandrine of Prussia
, issue = Duchess Charlotte
, house =House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
, father =Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
, mother = Alexandrine of Prussia
, birth_date =
, ...
* Duke Charles of Mecklenburg
Duke Charles of Mecklenburg (german: Herzog Carl zu Mecklenburg) (30 November 1785 – 21 September 1837) was a member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a Prussian soldier who served in the Napoleonic Wars. From 1827 until his death he was P ...
* Samad bey Mehmandarov
Samad bey Sadykh bey oghlu Mehmandarov ( az, Səməd bəy Sadıx bəy oğlu Mehmandarov; October 16, 1855 – February 12, 1931) was an Azerbaijani General of the Artillery in the Imperial Russian Army and served as Minister of Defense o ...
* Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly
Emmanuel Graf von Mensdorff-Pouilly (24 January 1777 – 28 June 1852) was an army officer in the Imperial-Royal Army of the Austrian Empire, and vice-governor of Mainz. He was the uncle of Queen Victoria and the godfather of her husband, Pri ...
* Klemens von Metternich
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein ; german: Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternic ...
* Feofil Egorovich Meyendorf
Baron Feofil Egorovich (von) Meyendorf (russian: Феофи́л Его́рович (фон) Мейендо́рф; german: Bogdan Theophil Freiherr von Meyendorff; 4 August 1838 – 18 October 1919) was an Imperial Russian military leader of Baltic ...
* Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (25 October 1832 – 18 December 1909) was the fourth son and seventh child of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia. He was the first owner of the New Michael Palace on the Palace Quay in ...
* Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович, r=Mikhail Aleksandrovich; 13 June 1918) was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas ...
* Miguel I of Portugal
* Mikhail Volkonsky
* Milan I of Serbia
Milan Obrenović ( sr-cyr, Милан Обреновић, Milan Obrenović; 22 August 1854 – 11 February 1901) reigned as the prince of Serbia from 1868 to 1882 and subsequently as king from 1882 to 1889. Milan I unexpectedly abdicated in ...
* Mikhail Miloradovich
Count Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich (russian: Граф Михаи́л Андре́евич Милора́дович, sh-Cyrl, Гроф Михаил Андрејевић Милорадовић ''Grof Mihail Andrejević Miloradović''; – ...
* Pavel Mishchenko
Pavel Ivanovich Mishchenko (russian: Па́вел Ива́нович Ми́щенко; Pavlo Ivanovych Mishchenko; 22 January 1853 - 1918 ) was an Imperial Russian career military officer and statesman of the Imperial Russian Army.
Biography
M ...
* Mohammed Alim Khan
Emir Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan ( uz, Said Mir Muhammad Olimxon, 3 January 1880 – 28 April 1944) was the last emir of the Uzbek Manghit dynasty, rulers of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the R ...
* Alexander von Moller
Alexander Fedorovich von Moller (1796–1862) was an Imperial Russian division commander. He took in the suppression of the uprising in Poland.
Awards
* Order of Saint George, 4th degree, 1833
* Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov), 1s ...
* Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Helmuth is both a masculine German given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name;
*Helmuth Theodor Bossert (1889–1961), German art historian, philologist and archaeologist
*Helmuth Duckadam (born 1959), Romanian forme ...
* Nikolay Mordvinov (admiral)
Count Nikolay Semyonovich Mordvinov (russian: Николай Семёнович Мордвинов) (17 April 1754 – 30 March 1845) was one of the most reputable Russian political thinkers of Alexander I's reign. He is associated with th ...
* Burkhard Christoph von Münnich
Burkhard Christoph Graf von Münnich (, tr. ; – ) was a German-born army officer who became a field marshal and political figure in the Russian Empire. He carried out major reforms in the Russian Army and founded several elite militar ...
* Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov
Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov or Murav'ev (russian: Михаил Никитич Муравьёв; – ) was a Russian poet and prose writer, "one of the best educated and most versatile writers of his generation in Russia".C. L. Drage, 'M. N. Mu ...
* Valentin Musin-Pushkin
Count Valentin Platonovich Musin-Pushkin (Russian: Граф Валенти́н Плато́нович Му́син-Пу́шкин; ) was a Russian military and government official who reached the rank of field marshal.
Biography
Scion of a larg ...
* Ivan Nabokov
Ivan Aleksandrovich Nabokov (russian: Иван Александрович Набоков) (11 March 1787 – 21 April 1852) was a Russian Adjutant general and general of infantry prominent during the Napoleonic wars.
Biography
Nabokov came fr ...
* Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...
* Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh
Kamran Mirza ( fa, کامران ميرزا; July 22, 1856 – April 15, 1929), was a Persian Prince of Qajar dynasty and third surviving son of Nasser al-Din Shah. He was the brother of Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan and Mozzafar al-Din Shah. He w ...
* Ivan Neplyuyev
Ivan Ivanovich Neplyuyev (russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Неплю́ев; 15 November 1693 – 22 November 1773) was a Russian diplomat and administrator prominent in the service of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. His memoirs we ...
* Nicholas I of Russia
Nicholas I , group=pron ( – ) was List of Russian rulers, Emperor of Russia, Congress Poland, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. He was the third son of Paul I of Russia, Paul I and younger brother of his predecessor, Alexander I ...
* Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Pola ...
* Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831–1891)
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (russian: Великий князь Николай Николаевич; 8 August 1831 – 25 April 1891) was the third son and sixth child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Alexandra Feodorovna. He may ...
* Arkady Nikanorovich Nishenkov
Arkady Nikanorovich Nishchenkov (6 March 1855 – February 1940 (russian: Аркадий Никанорович Нищенков) was an Imperial Russian general of the artillery and corps commander. He fought in the wars against the Ottoman Empi ...
* August Ludwig von Nostitz
August Ludwig Ferdinand Count von Nostitz-Ransen (27 December 1777, Zessel, near Öls – 28 May 1866, on his estates at Zobten, near Löwenberg in Schlesien) was a Prussian general who acted as adjutant general to Frederick William III of Pru ...
* Karl Nesselrode
Karl Robert Reichsgraf von Nesselrode-Ehreshoven, also known as Charles de Nesselrode (Russian: Карл Васильевич Нессельроде, ''Karl Vasilyevich Nesselrode''; 14 December 1780 – 23 March 1862) was a Russian German diploma ...
* Peter Obolyaninov
* Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov
Prince Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov (russian: Алексе́й Фёдорович Орло́в; ) was a Russian Empire , Russian diplomat, the natural son of Count Fyodor Grigoryevich Orlov. Born in Moscow, he took part in the Napoleonic Wars from ...
* Oscar II
Oscar II (Oscar Fredrik; 21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907) was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death in 1907 and King of Norway from 1872 to 1905.
Oscar was the son of King Oscar I and Queen Josephine. He inherited the Swedish and Norweg ...
* Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken
Fabian Gottlieb Fürst von der Osten-Sacken (russian: Фабиа́н Вильге́льмович О́стен-Са́кен, trasnlit=Fabián Vil'gél'movič Ósten-Sáken; – ) was a Baltic German Field Marshal who led the Russian army a ...
* Archduke Otto of Austria (1865–1906) en, Otto Francis Joseph Charles Louis Maria
, image = ArchdukeOttoof Austria.jpg
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Graz, Austrian Empire
, death_date =
, death_place = Vienna, Austria-Hungary
, house = Habsburg-Lorraine
, fathe ...
* Gore Ouseley
Sir Gore Ouseley, 1st Baronet GCH, PC (24 June 1770 – 18 November 1844), was a British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat. He was born in 1770 and died at Hall Barn Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1844. He negotiated an important t ...
* Fyodor Palitzin
Fyodor Fyodorovich Palitzin (russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Палицын; – 19 February 1923) (also known as Palitsyn) was a Russian General who commanded the Russian Expeditionary Force in France.
Palitzin attended the Pavel Military ...
* Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg
Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg (german: Herzog Paul Friedrich zu Mecklenburg; 19 September 1852 – 17 May 1923) was a member of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and general of the Mecklenburg cavalry.
Life
Duke Paul Frederick was born i ...
* Pavel Yaguzhinsky
The Count (from 1731) Pavel Ivanovich Yaguzhinsky (Yagushinsky) (1683, Grand Duchy of Lithuania – April 17, 1736, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian statesman and diplomat, associate of Peter the Great, Chamberlain (1712), Ober-Stallmeister (1727 ...
* Pedro V of Portugal
, house = Braganza
, house-type = House
, father = Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
, mother = Queen Maria II of Portugal
, birth_date =
, birth_place =
, death_date =
, death_place = Necessida ...
* Duke Peter of Oldenburg
Duke Constantine Frederick Peter of Oldenburg (german: Konstantin Friedrich Peter; russian: Пётр Гео́ргиевич Ольденбу́ргский, translit=Pëtr Geórgievič Ol'denbúrgskij; – ) was a Duke of the House of Oldenburg. ...
* Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders
nl, Filips Eugeen Ferdinand Marie Clemens Boudewijn Leopold Joris
, image = Philippe comte de Flandre (1880).jpg
, caption =
, spouse =
, issue =
, house = Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
, father ...
* Konstanty Ludwik Plater
Konstanty Ludwik Plater ( lt, Konstantinas Liudvikas Pliateris) (1722 – 31 March 1778 in Krāslava), was Castellan of Troki from 1770, voivode of Mstislavl from 1758 to 1770, Castellan of Polotsk from 1754 to 1758, the great Lithuanian Magnus Sc ...
* Mikhail Mikhailovich Pleshkov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Pleshkov (russian: Михаил Михайлович Плешков) (13 November .S. 1 November1856 – 21 May 1927) was an Imperial Russian Army division and corps commander who achieved the rank of general of the cavalry. ...
* Stanislaw August Poniatowski Stanislav and variants may refer to:
People
*Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.)
Places
* Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine
* Stanislaus County, Cali ...
* Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; russian: Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Попо́в; – ) was a Russian physicist, who was one of the first persons to invent a radio receiving device. declassified 8 Januar ...
* Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo
Count Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (french: Charles-André Pozzo de Borgo, russian: Карл Осипович Поццо ди Борго, ''Karl Osipovich Potso di Borgo''; 8 March 1764 – 15 February 1842) was a Corsican politician, who later ...
* Yevfimiy Putyatin
Yevfimiy Vasilyevich Putyatin (russian: Евфи́мий Васи́льевич Путя́тин; November 8, 1803 – October 16, 1883), also known as was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy. His diplomatic mission to Japan r ...
* Mohammad Shah Qajar
Mohammad Shah (; born Mohammad Mirza; 5 January 1808 – 5 September 1848) was the third Qajar dynasty, Qajar ''shah'' of Qajar Iran, Iran from 1834 to 1848, having succeeded his grandfather Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Fath-Ali Shah. From a young age, M ...
* Mohammad Taqi Mirza Rokn ed-Dowleh
Mohammad Taqi Mirza Rokn ed-Dowleh was a Persian prince of Qajar dynasty.
He was born in Tehran to King Mohammad Shah Qajar before 13 February 1842 (s/o a Zainab Khanum) and was created the title Rukn ud-Daula in 1868. He was governor of Tehran be ...
* Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar ( fa, مظفرالدین شاه قاجار, Mozaffar ad-Din Ŝāh-e Qājār; 23 March 1853 – 3 January 1907), was the fifth shah of Qajar Iran, reigning from 1896 until his death in 1907. He is often credited with t ...
* Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar ( fa, ناصرالدینشاه قاجار; 16 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. He was the son of Mohammad Shah Qajar and Malek ...
* Fyodor Radetsky
Fyodor Fyodorovich Radetsky (Radetzky in German) (; 1820–1890) was a Russian general of German- Silesian extraction. He founded the city of Krasnovodsk (modern Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan) in 1869. He commanded the Russian forces at the 3rd stag ...
* Evgeny Aleksandrovich Radkevich
Evgeny Aleksandrovich Radkevich (russian: Евгений Александрович Радкевич) (16 September 1851 - 1930) was an Imperial Russian Army general of the infantry and a member of the Russian Empire's Military Council. He saw comb ...
* Alexander Ragoza
Alexander Frantsevich Ragoza (russian: Алекса́ндр Фра́нцевич Рагоза́, uk, Олександр Францевич Рогоза; 20 June .S. 8 June1858 – 29 June 1919), in Ukrainian Oleksandr Frantsevych Rohoza, was ...
* Henri de Rigny
Marie Henri Daniel Gauthier, comte de Rigny (; 2 February 1782 – 6 November 1835) was the commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence.
Biography
Family
He was a nephew of Baron Joseph Domini ...
* Roman Vorontsov
Count (1760) Roman Illarionovich (Larionovich) Vorontsov (1717–1783) was a Full Chamberlain (1746), General-Chef (1761), Senator (1760), Vladimir, Penza and Tambov Governor-General (1778–1783), one of the first figures of Russian Freemason ...
* Christopher Roop
Christopher Khristoforovich Roop (Russian, Христофор Христофорович Рооп; May 1, 1831 – 1917) was an Imperial Russian army officer. He was promoted to Polkovnik (colonel) in 1857, major general in 1863 and lieutenant g ...
* Rudolf, Prince of Liechtenstein
Prince Rudolf of Liechtenstein (18 April 1838 – 15 December 1908) was an Austrian aristocrat, a general in the Common Army and one of the highest officials in the court of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Biography
Rudolf was the youngest child an ...
* Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
en, Rudolph Francis Charles Joseph
, caption = Rudolf in 1887
, spouse =
, issue = Elisabeth Marie, Princess Otto of Windisch-Graetz
, house = Habsburg-Lorraine
, father = Franz Joseph I of Austria
, mother ...
* Adam Rzhevusky
Aleksander Adam Rzewuski (russian: Адам Адамович Ржевуский, tr. ; 1801 – April 17, 1888) was a Polish-Russian general. He was born in Pohrebyshche in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He par ...
* Anton Yegorovich von Saltza
Baron Anton Yegorovich Zaltsa (, tr. ; 22 October 18439 February 1916), better known as Baron Anton Yegorovich von Saltza, was a Russian general of Baltic German origin who was the commander of the Kazan Military District, he was also one of the ...
* Alexander Samsonov
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Samsonov (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Самсо́нов, tr. ; ) was a career officer in the cavalry of the Imperial Russian Army and a general during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. He w ...
* Johan Eberhard von Schantz
Johan Eberhard von Schantz (russian: Иван Иванович фон Шанц; 29 October 1802 – 3 January 1880) was a Finnish-born admiral in the Russian Imperial Navy, ship designer and explorer.
Life
Schantz was born in the Western Finn ...
* Sergei Sheydeman
Sergei Mikhailovich Sheydeman (russian: Сергей Михайлович Шейдеман; german: Sergei Michailowitsch Scheidemann; August 18, 1857 – 1922) was an army commander of the Imperial Russian Army in World War I. After the October R ...
* Yakov Schkinsky
Yakov Federovich Shkinsky (4 June 1858 – 22 April 1938) was an Imperial Russian division and corps commander. He fought in the wars against the Ottoman Empire and the Empire of Japan. After the October Revolution, he fought against the Bolshevik ...
* Alexei Senyavin
Alexei Naumovich Senyavin (also spelled Sinyavin) (russian: Алексей Наумович Сенявин) (5 October 1716 – 10 August 1797) was an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, son of Naum Senyavin.
Early career
Senyavin began his ca ...
* Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (''Сергей Александрович''; 11 May 1857 – 17 February 1905) was the fifth son and seventh child of Emperor Alexander II of Russia. He was an influential figure during the reigns of h ...
* Ivan Shestakov
Ivan Alexeyevich Shestakov (russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Шестако́в; 13 April 1820 – 3 December 1888) was a Russian naval officer, statesman, and writer.
Early years
Shestakov was born in the village of Syrok ...
* Georg von Stackelberg
Georg August Paul Freiherr von Stackelberg (russian: Георгий Карлович Штакельберг, translit=Georgij Karlovič Štakel'berg; ) was a Baltic German cavalry general in the service of the Imperial Russian Army. He was no ...
* Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg
* Curt von Stedingk
Curt Bogislaus Ludvig Kristoffer von Stedingk (26 October 1746 – 7 January 1837) was a count of the von Stedingk family, and a successful Swedish army officer and diplomat who played a prominent role in Swedish foreign policy for several decad ...
* Archduke Stephen of Austria (Palatine of Hungary)
Archduke Stephen Francis Victor (german: Stephan Franz Viktor; hu, István Ferenc Viktor; 14 September 1817 – 19 February 1867) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and the last Palatine of Hungary, serving from 1847 to 1848.
Bi ...
* Vladimir Sukhomlinov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinov ( rus, Владимир Александрович Сухомлинов, p=sʊxɐˈmlʲinəf; – 2 February 1926) was a Russian general of the Imperial Russian Army who served as the Chief of the General Staf ...
* Alexander Suvorov
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Суво́ров, Aleksándr Vasíl'yevich Suvórov; or 1730) was a Russian general in service of the Russian Empire. He was Count of Rymnik, Count of the Holy ...
* Peter Tekeli
Peter Tekeli (russian: Петр Авраамович Текели, Serbian: Петар Поповић Текелија or ''Petar Popović Tekelija'',''Popović'' is often omitted. hu, Tököly-Popovics Péter) (1720–1792) was a Russian genera ...
* Alfred von Tirpitz
Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz (19 March 1849 – 6 March 1930) was a German grand admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. Prussi ...
* Dmitry Troshchinsky
Dmitry Prokofievich Troshchinsky (russian: Дмитрий Прокофьевич Трощинский; ; October 26, 1749 – February 26, 1829) was a Russian Imperial statesman of Ukrainian origin, senior Cabinet Secretary (1793–98), Prosecut ...
* Erast Tsytovich
Erast Stepanovich Tsytovich (russian: Эраст Степанович Цытович, 28 February 1830 – 27 January 1898) was an Imperial Russian military commander. By the end of his nearly five decades of service, Tsytovich attained to the ran ...
* Prince Valdemar of Denmark
Prince Valdemar of Denmark (27 October 1858 – 14 January 1939) was a member of the Danish royal family. He was the third son and youngest child of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. He had a lifelong naval career. Early li ...
* Sergei Vasilchikov
Sergei Illarionovich Vasilchikov (9 September 1849 – 27 August 1926) was an Imperial Russian division commander. He was born in Kiev in modern-day Ukraine. He was the son of Imperial Russian general Illarion Illarionovich Vasilchikov. He fought ...
* Georgy Vasmund
Georgy Robertovich Vasmund (Russian, Георгий Робертович Васмунд, 25 December 1840 - 30 May 1904) was an Imperial Russian division commander, lieutenant general. He took part in the suppression of the uprising in Poland a ...
* Nikita Villebois
* Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (russian: Влади́мир Александрович; 22 April 1847 – 17 February 1909) was a son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, a brother of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and the senior Gra ...
* Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (russian: Владимир Кириллович Романов; 21 April 1992) was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia, a position which he claimed from 1938 to his death.
Early life
Vladimir was bo ...
* Sava Vladislavich
Count Sava Lukich Vladislavich-Raguzinsky (russian: Са́вва Луки́ч Рагузи́нский-Владиславич; sr, Сава Владиславић Рагузински, ''Sava Vladislavić Raguzinski''; 16 January 1669 – 17 June ...
* Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov
Count Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov (russian: Илларио́н Ива́нович Воронцов-Дашков; 27 May 1837 – 15 January 1916) was a notable representative of the Vorontsov family. He served as Minister of Imperial Pro ...
* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister o ...
* Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (german: Kaiser) and King of Prussia, reigning from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918. Despite strengthening the German Empir ...
* William I of Württemberg
William I (german: Friedrich Wilhelm Karl; 27 September 178125 June 1864) was King of Württemberg from 30 October 1816 until his death.
Upon William's accession, Württemberg was suffering crop failures and famine in the "Year Without a Summer", ...
* William I, German Emperor
William I or Wilhelm I (german: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and German Emperor from 18 January 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the f ...
* William II of the Netherlands
William II ( nl, Willem Frederik George Lodewijk, anglicized as William Frederick George Louis; 6 December 1792 – 17 March 1849) was King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg.
William II was the son of William ...
* William II of Württemberg
, spouse =
, issue = Pauline, Princess of WiedPrince Ulrich
, house = Württemberg
, father = Prince Frederick of Württemberg
, mother = Princess Catherine of Württemberg
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Stu ...
* William IV
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded h ...
* Duke William of Württemberg
Duke William of Württemberg (german: Wilhelm Nikolaus Herzog von Württemberg; 20 July 1828 – 5 November 1896) was an Austrian and Württemberg General.
Early life and family
Duke William was born at Carlsruhe, Kingdom of Prussia (now P ...
* Sergei Witte
Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte (; ), also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing the tsar as head of the government. Neither a liberal nor a conservative, he attract ...
* Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857)
Duke Eugen of Württemberg (german: Herzog Friedrich Eugen Carl Paul Ludwig von Württemberg; 8 January 1788 – 16 September 1857) was a German prince and a General of Infantry in the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Early life ...
* Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet
Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet (Russian: Я́ков Васи́льевич Ви́ллие ''Yakov Vasilyevich Villiye'') (13 November 1768 — 2 March 1854), was a Scottish physician who served as a battlefield surgeon and as a court physician i ...
* Yamagata Aritomo
''Gensui (Imperial Japanese Army), Gensui'' Prince , also known as Prince Yamagata Kyōsuke, was a senior-ranking Japanese people, Japanese military commander, twice-elected Prime Minister of Japan, and a leading member of the ''genrō'', an ...
* Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (russian: Алексе́й Петро́вич Ермо́лов, p=jɪrˈmoləf; – ) was a Russian Imperial general of the 19th century who commanded Russian troops in the Caucasian War. He served in all the Rus ...
* Prince Zaitao
* Matija Zmajevic
* Dmitry Zuyev
Dmitry Petrovich Zuyev ( – 4 September 1917) was an Imperial Russian Army general.
He was commander of the 1st Infantry Division from 1907 to 1910. He fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 and the Eastern Front of World War I. He com ...
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