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Otto Wilhelm von Fersen (1623,
Reval
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– 1703,
Kurna
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) was a Swedish general and nobleman of the Fersen family, governor general of
Ingmermanland and
Kexholm
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from 1691 to 1698,
field marshal
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1693. He was the son of Hermann von Fersen the elder and cousin to
Fabian von Fersen.
After his death he was buried in
St Mary's Cathedral, Tallinn, where a
sarcophagus
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, probably created by the sculptor
Johann Gustav Stockenberg,
was erected in his memory.
See also
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Fersen The Fersen family, stylized as the von Fersen family (german: Versen), is a Baltic German aristocratic family grouped into several ennobled branches that settled in and around the kingdoms bordering the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. The most well- ...
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1623 births
1703 deaths
17th-century Estonian people
17th-century Swedish military personnel
Field marshals of Sweden
Baltic-German people
Swedish people of Baltic German descent
People from Tallinn
Burials at St Mary's Cathedral, Tallinn
Fersen family