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Dmitri Alekseyevich Gallitzin

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Prince Dmitri Alexeievich Gallitzin FRS (21 December 1728 – 16 March 1803) was a Russian diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist and mineralogist. [1]

32 relations: Aachen, Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin, Étienne Maurice Falconet, Catherine the Great, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Collegium of Foreign Affairs, Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, Denis Diderot, Dutch Republic, Electrostatic generator, Fellow of the Royal Society, First League of Armed Neutrality, François Hemsterhuis, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Heinrich von Brühl, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Mineralogy, Mystification (Diderot), Paul I of Russia, Physiocracy, Pierre Crozat, Polish question, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, René Just Haüy, Samuel von Schmettau, Scheveningen, Volcanologist, Voltaire, Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange.

Aachen

Aachen or Bad Aachen, French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle, is a spa and border city.

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Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

The Leopoldina is the national academy of Germany.

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Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin

Princess Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin (also known as Amaliia Samuilovna Golitsyna or in Russian as Амалия Самуиловна Голицына; 28 August 1748 – 17 April 1806) was the daughter of the Prussian Field Marshal Count Samuel von Schmettau and the mother of Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin.

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Étienne Maurice Falconet

Étienne Maurice Falconet (1 December 1716 – 24 January 1791) was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor, best-known for his equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman (1782), in St.

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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (Russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Yekaterina Alekseyevna; –), also known as Catherine the Great (Екатери́на Вели́кая, Yekaterina Velikaya), born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader.

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Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius (26 January 1715 – 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur.

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Collegium of Foreign Affairs

The Collegium of Foreign Affairs (also College) was a Russian executive body (collegium), created in the government reform of 1717.

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Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin

Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (December 22, 1770 – May 6, 1840) was an emigre Russian aristocrat and Roman Catholic priest known as The Apostle of the Alleghenies.

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

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Dutch Republic

The Dutch Republic was a republic that existed from the formal creation of a confederacy in 1581 by several Dutch provinces (which earlier seceded from the Spanish rule) until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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Electrostatic generator

An electrostatic generator, or electrostatic machine, is an electromechanical generator that produces static electricity, or electricity at high voltage and low continuous current.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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First League of Armed Neutrality

The first League of Armed Neutrality was an alliance of European naval powers between 1780 and 1783 which was intended to protect neutral shipping against the Royal Navy's wartime policy of unlimited search of neutral shipping for French contraband.

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François Hemsterhuis

François Hemsterhuis (27 December 1721 – 7 July 1790) was a Dutch writer on aesthetics and moral philosophy.

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste.

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Heinrich von Brühl

Heinrich, count von Brühl (Henryk Brühl, 13 August 170028 October 1763), was a Polish-Saxon statesman at the court of Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and a member of the powerful German von Brühl family.

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Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.

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Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Margravine Anna Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt (22 April 1738 – 10 February 1820) was a Prussian princess.

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Mineralogy

Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts.

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Mystification (Diderot)

Mystification or l'Histoire des portraits is an unfinished work from 1768 by Denis Diderot.

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Paul I of Russia

Paul I (Па́вел I Петро́вич; Pavel Petrovich) (–) reigned as Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801.

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Physiocracy

Physiocracy (from the Greek for "government of nature") is an economic theory developed by a group of 18th century Enlightenment French economists who believed that the wealth of nations was derived solely from the value of "land agriculture" or "land development" and that agricultural products should be highly priced.

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Pierre Crozat

Danae'' from Crozat's collection. Pierre Crozat (1665–1740) was a French art collector at the center of a broad circle of cognoscenti; he was the brother of Antoine Crozat.

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Polish question

The Polish question (kwestia polska or sprawa polska) is the issue, in international politics, of the existence of Poland as an independent state.

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Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia

Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia (August Ferdinand von Preußen; 23 May 1730, Berlin – 2 May 1813, Berlin) was a Prussian Prince and general, and Herrenmeister ("Master of the Knights") of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Order of Saint John.

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René Just Haüy

René Just Haüy FRS MWS FRSE (28 February 1743 – 3 June 1822) was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame.

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Samuel von Schmettau

Samuel Graf von Schmettau (24 March 1684 - 18 August 1751) was a Prussian field marshal.

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Scheveningen

Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague, Netherlands, as well as a subdistrict (wijk) of that city.

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Volcanologist

A volcanologist or vulcanologist is a geologist who studies the processes involved in the formation and eruptive activity of volcanoes and their current and historic eruptions, known as volcanology.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange

Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina; 7 August 1751 in Berlin – 9 June 1820 in Het Loo) was the consort of William V of Orange and the de facto leader of the dynastic party and counter-revolution in the Netherlands.

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Redirects here:

Demetrius Alekseyevich Gallitzin, Dmitry Alexeyevich Golitsyn, Prince Demetrius Gallitzin.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Alekseyevich_Gallitzin

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