During 1869-70 he published The History of a Town, which sums up the achievement of Saltykov's first period. An independent and brutal warlord in pursuit of pan-monarchist goals in Mongolia and territories east of Lake Baikal during the Russian Civil War that followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Ungern von-Sternberg's goals included restoring the Russian monarchy under Michael Alexandrovich Romanov and the Mongolian Khanate under Bogd Khan, and his opponents were mainly Communists. After the deposition and brutal murder of his father, Alexios is said to have taken refuge at the court of his relative Tamar of Georgia who granted him a large estate in the eastern Georgian province of Kakheti. Andreas (Andreievich) Razumovsky (1929-2002), grandson of the latter, well-known political analyst and media figure in Germany and Austria, was expelled from Czechoslovakia where he was posted as correspondent of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1967 for warning of an imminent invasion by Warsaw Pact troops, analysed and published a book in 1981 on the centrifugal forces leading to the dismembering of Yugoslavia. Following the Russian Renaissance, Tsar Paul Romanov II offer the restoration of the Gagarin noble rank and title to Vladimir who graciously accepted the offer. (See Northeast Passage) His expedition made a valuable research in glaciology, geomagnetics, and climatology and also collected data about natural resources and native population of that remote area. One famous member was Count Hans Henrik von Essen (1755–1824) who was a Swedish officer and statesman. The Belosselsky-Belozersky family was forced to flee St. Petersburg and their Krestovsky Island estate during the 1917 revolution, leaving to the West and leaving no one in Russia. Vassily Konstantinovich von Anrep (1852 – 1927) was a professor of forensic medicine and a Russian statesman. Trubetskoy is a Ruthenian Gediminid gentry family of Black Ruthenian stock, like many other princely houses of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later prominent in Russian history, science, and arts. Dimitri was born in Bazorkino, where his family had moved from their ancestral estate at Gori, Georgia during the Russian Revolution of 1905. Semyon Anikeyevich Stroganov (? It wouldn't be until after the Russian Empire again reclaimed parts of Northern Georgia that the family would finally return to their ancestral home and hold their seat within Georgia's noble court. During the February Revolution Milyukov hoped to retain the constitutional monarchy in Russia, but events developed too quickly for him to follow. Widely regarded as the most able of Russian admirals in World War I, he led the Baltic Fleet energetically during the first year of the war before dying unexpectedly after a short bout with pneumonia in May 1915. Mikhail had plans on returning the family back to their Georgian homeland when the territory became apart of the Russian Empire once again. The family came to prominence in the early 18th century at the court of the Georgian king Vakhtang VI of Kartli. Khan Yusuf allied himself with Tsar Ivan the Terrible, but the former allies eventually became enemies. It wasn't until after the Russian Renaissance and the ascension of Paul Romanov II as Tsar that the Stroganov family returned to Russia. The family reached a climax of its might at the turn of the 18th century, when it possessed 78 villages, several castles, fortresses, churches and monasteries as well as 1,500 serf households. On the death of Peter II he conceived the idea of limiting the autocracy by subordinating it to the authority of the Supreme privy council, of which he was president. The Time of Troubles over, Dmitry was addressed by people as "Liberator of the Motherland" and asked to accept the Tsar's throne. Following his naturalization as a French citizen, he married another member of the exiled Georgian nobility, Princess Irina, née Dadiani in August 1927. Those who remained in Georgia were reconfirmed among the nobility by a charter of King Erekle II in 1788. After Russia’s annexation of Georgia in 1801, Mukhrani ceased to exist as an autonomous princedom and its former rulers were confirmed as Russian princes in 1825 and 1850. Unlike his relatives, he chose to remain in Moscow after the revolution and came to be recognized as one of the most prominent Soviet zoologists. It is a sort of parody of Russian history, concentrated in the microcosm of a provincial town, whose successive governors are transparent caricatures of Russian sovereigns and ministers, and whose very name is representative of its qualities — Glupov. His younger brother, Esper Konstantinovich was an avid sailor who won a bronze medal for Russia in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. It was Galitzine who suggested taking refuge in that strong fortress and won over the boyars of the opposite party. Dolgrukiy and okolnichiy Prince F Shakhovsky) for the solemn confirmation of the peace agreements with Sweden. The result was the National Anthem of Russia, which was officially adopted in 2001. He married the well-known society beauty and maid-of-honour to her majesty the Empress Alexandra Feodorovnya Aurore Stjernvall (1808-1903) in 1836. Many officials believe this surname a local Mingrelian variation of the Chijavadze. Alexander remained in Russia well into the Soviet era. In home affairs his influence was insignificant, but his foreign policy was distinguished by the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689), which set the Russo-Chinese border north of the Amur River, and by the peace with Poland (1683), whereby Russia at last recovered Kiev. From 1844 to 1856 he was in charge of the infamous Third Section, or secret police. On 18 September 1679 Charles XI of Sweden gave the baronial rank to five brothers of the family and all their descendants. It is true, however, that other Freemasons who were "punished" (N. Troubetzkoy, I. Lopukhin and I. Turgenev, for example, were merely rusticated on their country estates) had not been directly involved in the efforts to enlist Paul into the M^Asited Paul on behalf of Nikolai Novikov, escaped scott free. Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734-1783), who created for his family such an illustrious Russian history, was the son of Gregory Orlov, governor of Great Novgorod. He married Irina Mikhailovna Zinovyeva (1718-1788), daughter of Steward Mikhail Petrovich Zinoviev, in 1734 and, beside their only male child, bore four preceding daughters: Princess Evdokia Borisovna Yusupova May 5 (NS: May 16) 1743, Moscow - July 19 (NS: July 8) 1780, Saint Petersburg), married on March 6, 1774, Mitava (Mittau) (divorced in 1777 or 1778), as his second wife, to Peter von Biron, the last Duke von Kurland (1769–1795) and the first Duke von Sagan (1786–1795) (February 15, 1724, Mitava (Mittau) - January 13, 1800, Schloss Gellenau), without issue; Princess Alexandra Borisovna Yusupova (1744–1791), married to Senator Ivan Mikhailovich Izmailov (January 30, 1724 - November 10, 1787); Princess Elisaveta Borisovna Yusupova April 27, 1745 - August 29, 1770), married on February 13, 1764 to General-Major Prince Andrei Mikhailovich Galitzine (August 15, 1729 - February 23, 1770), with large issue; Princess Anna Borisovna Yusupova (1749–1772), married in 1771 to Alexander Yakovlevich Protasov (1742 - April 27, 1799), Chamberlain, Senator, Tutor of Alexander I. In the palace revolution of 1762 he played an even more important part than his brother Gregory. It would be through Nikolay that the family continued to survive to the present day. During the reign of Peter III of Russia, Vorontsov was the most powerful man in Russia, as his niece Elisabeth became the Emperor's mistress. At the audience which followed on 30 August, the King announced that the message was "very agreeable", and that he recognised Prince Khilkov as an ambassador to his Court. After initial successes in June–July, Ungern von Sternberg was forced to start a difficult retreat to Mongolia in late July 1920, hard pressed by the overwhelming Bolshevik counter-offensive. Like the rest of the Georgian nobility restored, the family had plans of returning to Georgia until the Georgian War forced them to cancel their plans. Peter was a Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science during the late 1980s until after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Also, his jealousy of the influence which Grigori Orlov and his brothers seemed likely to obtain over the new empress predisposed him to favor the proclamation of his ward the grand duke Paul as emperor, with Catherine as regent only. Alexander's son, George is set to be the next head of the House Gruzinsky. In 1782 Count Alois sold his Polish dignities and estates and returned to Saxony, but Johann Friedrich with his family of seven children by an Alsatian Protestant preacher's daughter Salomea b. Schweppenhäuser (1755-1833), stayed in Warsaw. Later, he moved his operations to the Ukraine, making various agricultural activities the chief source of his family income. A younger branch, received among the princely nobility of Russia under the name of Bagration of Mukhrani, still flourishes and has, since 1957, claimed to be the Royal House of Georgia by virtue of being the genealogically eldest surviving line of the Bagrationi dynasty. 59 Nos. The Revolution of 1905 appeared to signal the imminent end of Tsarism, but Khilkov's hopes of a general uprising were not to be. Several Panin came after and the family survived in Russia until the 1917 Revolution when the family like many nobles of the Russian court were forced to flee Russia. Sie haben Ihre Freiartikel diesen Monat bereits gelesen! Prince Nikolai Sergeevich Gagarin (1784— 1842) who was born in London and appointed to the Highest command of the 1st infantry during a drawing up of the Moscow military force (July 1812). Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718-83, St. Petersburg), was a Count (1767) and a First Rank Actual Privy Counsellor (1773). Panin was the inventor of the famous Northern Accord, which aimed at opposing a combination of Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and perhaps Great Britain, against the Bourbon-Habsburg League. The family, earlier known as Roch’ikashvili, originated in the province of Samtskhe and had a fiefdom centered at the castle of T’mogvi. Ungern von Sternberg attempted to invade Bolshevik-controlled territory of Transbaikalia across the Russo-Mongolian border in agreement with Cossack ataman Grigory Semyonov, and marched his Asian Cavalry Army. On his 90th birthday in 2003, Tsar Paul II personally visited him at his home to present him with the 2nd class Order For Service to Fatherland, citing him for his contributions to culture of Russia. They were confirmed in their rank by the Tsar’s decrees of 1825, 1828, 1829, and 1850. Vladimir's nephew, Count Nikolay Alekseyevich Bobrinsky (1890-1964) specialized in biology. The estate of Petrovskoye-Alabino, near Moscow, is currently claimed by Yevgeniy Meshchersky. Youngest son of duke Aleksandr duke Bagrat Aleksandrovich lost his older brother duke Anton Alekjsandrovich. Sergei was invited to be a member of the Organizing committee of the Paris Olympics of 1900 and took part in the equestrian competitions. What remained of their entire wealthy following the reconstruction was returned to the family. Like most of the Bobrinskys, he emigrated to France following the revolutionary nationalization of their family enterprises. A mystic who was fascinated by beliefs and religions of the Far East such as Buddhism and who believed himself to be a reincarnation of Genghis Khan, Ungern von Sternberg's philosophy was an exceptionally muddled mixture of Russian nationalism with Chinese and Mongol beliefs.