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House Of Giedroyć
The House of Giedroyć (; ; ; French: ''Guedroitz'') is an aristocratic clan and family which traces its origins to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. According to the 16th century '' Lithuanian Chronicle'', they are descendants of Prince Giedrius, a brother of Grand Duke Traidenis. Many family members were important figures in Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, French and British history or culture. The family's original domain was the Lithuanian town of Giedraičiai. Notable members * Michał Giedroyć (1420–1485), Augustinian friar * Merkelis Giedraitis (1536–1609), Bishop of Samogitia * Romuald Giedroyć (1750–1824), Commander of the allied Lithuanian regiments of Napoleon's Grande Armée * Vera Gedroitz (1870–1932), Russian military surgeon * Konstantin Gedroits (1872–1932), Russian soil scientist * Wladimir Guedroitz (1873–1941), Chamberlain of the Imperial Court of Russia * Jerzy Giedroyc (1906–2000), Polish writer and pol ...
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Grand Duchy Of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, partitions of Poland–Lithuania. The state was founded by Lithuanians (tribe), Lithuanians, who were at the time a Lithuanian mythology, polytheistic nation of several united Baltic tribes from Aukštaitija. By 1440 the grand duchy had become the largest European state, controlling an area from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south. The grand duchy expanded to include large portions of the former Kievan Rus' and other neighbouring states, including what is now Belarus, Lithuania, most of Ukraine as well as parts of Latvia, Moldova, Poland and Russia. At its greatest extent, in the 15th century, it was the largest state in Europe. It was a multinational state, multi-ethnic and multiconfessionalism, multiconfessional sta ...
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Romuald Giedroyć
Romuald Giedroyć (; ; 7 February 1750 – 15 October 1824) was a Polish-Lithuanian prince from the princely Giedroyć family, who fought in the Bar Confederation, War of 1792 and the Uprising of 1794 as part of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army. From mid-1812 to early 1813, Giedroyć was also the commander of the Polish-Lithuanian regiments raised during the French invasion of Russia. In early 1813, he was captured by the Russians and exiled to Arkhangelsk. In 1815, Alexander I of Russia amnestied Giedroyć and made him a Lieutenant general of the Army of Congress Poland. Biography He came from a Lithuanian princely family. His father was Józef Giedroyć, starosta of , his mother was Józefa Kiełpsz. He was born on 7 February 1750 in . Bar Confederation From 1765, he was in the Corps of Cadets in Warsaw. Giedroyć began his military career in 1765 as a cadet in the 2nd Foot Regiment of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, part of the Polish-Lithuanian military forces. The r ...
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Michal Giedroyc
Michał Jan Henryk Giedroyc (25 January 1929 – 29 December 2017) was a Polish-Lithuanian identity, Polish-Lithuanian aristocrat who later became a naturalised British citizen and aircraft designer. Giedroyc was born on 25 January 1929 in Łobzów, Poland (today Labzova in Belarus).Michał Jan Henryk ks. Giedrojć
in: M.J. Minakowski: Minakowski's Great Genealogy
His father Tadeusz Giedroyć, Tadeusz was a politician, since 1938 Polish senator. His mother was Anna Dunin-Szostakowska. In 1940, he and most of the family were deported to a Siberian Gulag by the Soviet NKVD after the Soviet invasion of Poland. They escaped to Iran in 1942 and travelled to Britain in 1947. He studied at the University of London and then worked designing aircraft at Vickers, Vickers Aerospace. He later moved into economic co ...
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Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of List of academic ranks, academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word ''professor'' is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well, and often to instructors or lecturers. Professors often conduct original research and commonly teach undergraduate, Postgraduate educa ...
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Alexis Guedroitz
Prince Alexis Nicolaevich Guedroitz (9 June 1923 – 1 February 1992) was a Belgian professor of Russian Language and Literature (Ecole de Guerre; Centre Nucléaire de Mol; Higher Institute of Interpreters and Translators Marie Haps; Higher Institute of the City of Brussels) and an interpreter who participated in several meetings between Soviet and Belgian politicians, such as Spaak-Khrushchev (1961), Spaak- Kosygin (1969), Harmel- Gromyko (1972), and the official visit of the King and Queen of the Belgians in USSR (1975). He was also one of the founders and delegates in Belgium of the International Dostoevsky Society (IDS). Biography Childhood Born in exile in Pancevo, Serbia, in 1923, Alexis Guedroitz was the son of the Russian Prince Nicholas Wladimirovich Guedroitz and his wife Alexandra Gregorievna Strigewsky. Shortly after his birth, his father, a young officer of the Imperial Guard, died from wounds of war. The young Alexis, his sister Olga (future wife of Count E ...
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Writer
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain. Writers may develop different forms of writing such as novels, short stories, monographs, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as reports, educational material, and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' works are nowadays published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple medi ...
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Jerzy Giedroyc
Jerzy Władysław Giedroyć (; 27 July 1906 – 14 September 2000) was a Polish writer, lawyer, publicist and political activist. For many years, he worked as editor of the highly influential Paris-based periodical, '' Kultura''. Early life Giedroyć was born in Minsk, into a Polish-Lithuanian noble family on 27 July 1906, with the title of ''kniaź'', prince. His schooling in Moscow was interrupted by the October Revolution, when he returned home to Minsk. During the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 his family left Minsk for Warsaw, where he finished the Jan Zamoyski gymnasium in 1924. He went on to study law and Ukrainian history and literature at the University of Warsaw. Career Giedroyć worked as a journalist and civil servant in interwar Poland, he maintained contacts with leading Ukrainians and urged the Roman Catholic Church to improve relations with the Greek Catholic Church to which many Ukrainians belonged, insisting that Poland's success as a national stat ...
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Chamberlain (office)
A chamberlain (Medieval Latin: ''cambellanus'' or ''cambrerius'', with charge of treasury ''camerarius'') is a senior royal official in charge of managing a royal household. Historically, the chamberlain superintends the arrangement of domestic affairs and was often also charged with receiving and paying out money kept in the royal chamber. The position was usually awarded as an honour to a high-ranking member of the nobility (nobleman) or the clergy, often a favourite, royal favourite. Roman emperors appointed this officer under the title of ''cubicularius''. The Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church enjoys very extensive powers, having the revenues of the papal household under his charge. As a sign of their dignity, chamberlains bore a key, which in the seventeenth century was often silvered, and actually fitted the door-locks of chamber rooms. Since the eighteenth century, it has turned into a merely symbolic, albeit splendid, Order of prece ...
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Wladimir Guedroitz
Prince Wladimir Cesarevich Guedroitz (in Russian: Владимир Цезаревич Гедройц) was Chamberlain of the Imperial Court of Russia, Actual State Councilor and Chairman of the Control Commission of the Russian Empire. Biography Prince Wladimir Guedroitz was born in Tver (''Russia'') in 1873 and died in Courbevoie (''France'') in 1941. He married in Saint Petersburg (1895) Olga ''Nicolaevna'' Karmaline (Drivan (''Lithuania'') 1872 + Courbevoie (''France'') 1941) who was the daughter of General Nicholas ''Nicholaevich'' Karmaline and his wife born Lubov ''Ivanovna'' Belenitzine. From this union were born three sons : Prince Nicholas ''Wladimirovich'' GuedroitzOpen database of officers of the Imperial Russian ArmyGedroits Nikolay Vladimirovich/ref> (Saint Petersburg (''Russia'') 1896 + Kórós (''Hungary'') 1923), Prince Michael ''Wladimirovich'' Guedroitz (Saint Petersburg (''Russia'') 1899 + Biarritz (''France'') 1966) and Prince Alexis ''Wladimirovich'' Guedroi ...
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Konstantin Gedroits
Konstantin Kaetanovich Gedroits (Russian: Константин Каэтанович Гедройц; 25 March 1872 – 5 October 1932) was a Russians, Russian soil science, soil scientist of Lithuanian origins. He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and a president of the International Union of Soil Sciences (1927–1930). Biography Gedroits belonged to the Lithuanian aristocratic Giedroyć family. He was born in Bessarabia, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He studied in Saint Petersburg, where he graduated from the Forest Institute in 1897 and from the Saint Petersburg Imperial University in 1903. After that he led the chemistry laboratory of the :ru:Почвенный институт имени В. В. Докучаева, Dokuchaev Soil Institute in Moscow (1915–17) and the Department of Soil Science of the Forest Institute in Saint Petersburg (1917–30). In 1929–30 he headed the Dokuchaev Soil Institute, and in 1927 was elected as pres ...
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