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89 relations: Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Albert of Riga, Alexander Bunge, Alexander Keyserling, Alexander von Middendorff, Alexander von Oettingen, Archbishopric of Riga, Balthasar von Campenhausen, Baltic Germans, Baltic knighthoods, Baltische Landeswehr, Barbara von Krüdener, Chamberlain (office), Courland, Courland Governorate, Dorothea Lieven, Dorothea von Medem, Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, Duchy of Estonia (1561–1721), Duchy of Livonia, Eduard Toll, Elisa von der Recke, Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Estonia, Estonian Knighthood, Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken, Freiherr, Friedrich Bidder, Governorate of Estonia, Governorate of Livonia, Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock, Herman Wrangel, History of Estonia, History of Latvia, Jacob Sievers, Jakob von Uexküll, Jelgava, Joseph Carl von Anrep, Karl Ernst von Baer, Knabenau, von, Lady-in-waiting of the Imperial Court of Russia, Land reform, Latvia, Lieven, List of palaces and manor houses in Estonia, List of palaces and manor houses in Latvia, Lithuanian nobility, Livonian Knighthood, Livonian War, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, ..., Manorialism, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (1674–1748), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Navigator, Nazi–Soviet population transfers, Northern Crusades, Occupation of the Baltic states, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (archaeologist), Otto von Kotzebue, Otto Wilhelm von Fersen, Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, Paul von Rennenkampf, Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Philip Osipovich Paulucci, Prince, Privy council, Pyotr Wrangel, Riga, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russian Empire, Russian nobility, Saaremaa, Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Serfdom, Sievers family, Social class, Soviet Union, State Council (Russian Empire), Swedish Empire, Swedish nobility, Szlachta, Tallinn, Terra Mariana, Tiesenhausen, Vyborg, World War I. Expand index (39 more) »
Adam Johann von Krusenstern
Baron Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern (Ива́н Фёдорович Крузенште́рн; 10 October 177012 August 1846), born as Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern, was a Russian admiral and explorer of Baltic German descent, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe.
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Albert of Riga
Albert of Riga or Albert of Livonia (Alberts fon Buksthēvdens; Albert von Buxthoeven; c.1165 – 17 January 1229) was the third Bishop of Riga in Livonia.
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Alexander Bunge
Alexander Georg von Bunge (Russian: Aleksandr Andreevich von Bunge, Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Бу́нге; –) was a Russian German botanist.
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Alexander Keyserling
Count Alexander Friedrich Michael Lebrecht Nikolaus Arthur von Keyserling (15 August 1815 in Kabile Parish – 8 May 1891 in Raikküla) was a Baltic German geologist and paleontologist from the Keyserlingk family of Baltic German nobility.
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Alexander von Middendorff
Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (Александр Федорович Миддендорф) (18 August 1815 – 24 January 1894) was a Russian zoologist and explorer.
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Alexander von Oettingen
Alexander von Oettingen (–) was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and statistician.
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Archbishopric of Riga
The Archbishopric of Riga (Archiepiscopatus Rigensis, Erzbisdom Riga) was an archbishopric in Medieval Livonia, a subject to the Holy See.
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Balthasar von Campenhausen
Balthasar Balthasarovich Campenhausen (Балтазар Балтазарович Кампенгаузен) (1772, Lenzenhof, –1823) was a Russian statesman who held the ranks of Privy Councilor and Chamberlain.
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Baltic Germans
The Baltic Germans (Deutsch-Balten or Deutschbalten, later Baltendeutsche) are ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia.
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Baltic knighthoods
Baltic Noble Corporations of Courland, Livonia, Estonia, and Oesel (Ösel) were medieval fiefdoms formed by German nobles in the 13th century under vassalage to the Teutonic Knights and Denmark in modern Latvia and Estonia.
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Baltische Landeswehr
The Baltic Landwehr or Baltische Landeswehr ("Baltic Territorial Army") was the name of the unified armed forces of the Couronian and Livonian nobility from 7 December 1918 to 3 July 1919.
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Barbara von Krüdener
Baroness Barbara Juliane von Krüdener (November 22, 1764December 25, 1824) was a Baltic German religious mystic, author, and Pietist Lutheran theologian that exerted influence on wider European Protestantism, including the Swiss Reformed Church and the Moravian Church, and whose ideas influenced Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
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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.
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Courland
Courland, or Kurzeme (in Latvian; Kurāmō; German and Kurland; Curonia/Couronia; Курляндия; Kuršas; Kurlandia), is one of the historical and cultural regions in western Latvia.
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Courland Governorate
Courland Governorate, also known as the Province of Courland, Governorate of Kurland (Курля́ндская губерния), and Government of Courland (Kurländisches Gouvernement, Kurzemes guberņa), was one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, that is now part of the Republic of Latvia.
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Dorothea Lieven
Princess Dorothea von Lieven (Дарья Христофоровна Ливен, Daria Khristoforovna Liven), née Benckendorff (17 December 1785 – 27 January 1857) was a Baltic German noblewoman and wife of Prince Khristofor Andreyevich Lieven, Russian ambassador to London, 1812 to 1834.
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Dorothea von Medem
(Anna Charlotte) Dorothea von Medem (3 February 1761 – 20 August 1821) was born a Gräfin (Countess) of the noble German Baltic Medem family and later became Duchess of Courland (a Baltic region).
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Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (Ducatus Curlandiæ et Semigalliæ, Księstwo Kurlandii i Semigalii, Herzogtum Kurland und Semgallen, Kurzemes un Zemgales hercogiste) was a duchy in the Baltic region that existed from 1561 to 1569 as a vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and from 1569 to 1726 to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, incorporated into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Sejm in 1726, On 28 March 1795, it was annexed by the Russian Empire in the Third Partition of Poland.
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Duchy of Estonia (1561–1721)
The Duchy of Estonia (Hertigdömet Estland, Eestimaa hertsogkond, Herzogtum Estland), also known as Swedish Estonia, (italic) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1561 until 1721 during the time that most or all of Estonia was under Swedish rule.
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Duchy of Livonia
The Duchy of Livonia (Księstwo Inflanckie; Livonijos kunigaikštystė; Ducatus Ultradunensis; Üleväina-Liivimaa hertsogkond; Pārdaugavas hercogiste; also referred to as Polish Livonia or Inflanty) was a territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania—and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth—that existed from 1561 to 1621.
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Eduard Toll
Eduard Gustav von Toll was a Russian geologist and Arctic explorer.
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Elisa von der Recke
Elisa von der Recke (20 May 1754 – 13 April 1833) was a Baltic German writer and poet.
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Ernst Gideon von Laudon
Baron Ernst Gideon von Laudon (German: Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon (originally Laudohn or Loudon) (13 February 1717 – 14 July 1790) was an Austrian generalisimo, one of the most successful opponents of the Prussian king Frederick the Great, allegedly lauded by Alexander Suvorov as his teacher. He served the position of military governorship of Habsburg Serbia from his capture of Belgrade in 1789 until his death, cooperating with the resistance fighters of Koča Anđelković.
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Estonia
Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.
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Estonian Knighthood
The Estonian Knighthood (Estländische Ritterschaft) was a fiefdom that operated in the northern part of modern Estonia.
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Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken
Prince Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken (Фабиан Вильгельмович Остен-Сакен) (20 October 1752 – 7 September 1837) was a Baltic-German Field Marshal who led the Russian army against the Duchy of Warsaw and later governed Paris during the city's brief occupation by the anti-French coalition.
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Freiherr
Freiherr (male, abbreviated as Frhr.), Freifrau (his wife, abbreviated as Frfr., literally "free lord" or "free lady") and Freiin (his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire, and in its various successor states, including Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, etc.
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Friedrich Bidder
Georg Friedrich Karl Heinrich von Bidder (9 November 1810 – 22 August 1894) was a Baltic German physiologist and anatomist from what was then the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire.
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Governorate of Estonia
The Governorate of Est(h)onia (Eestimaa kubermang) or Duchy of Estonia, also known as the Government of Estonia, was a governorate of the Russian Empire in what is now northern Estonia.
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Governorate of Livonia
The Governorate of Livonia (Лифляндская губерния, Liflyandskaya guberniya; Gouvernement Livland, Livländisches Gouvernement; Vidzemes guberņa, after the Latvian inhabited Vidzeme region) was one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, now divided between the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Estonia.
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Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock
Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock (July 22, 1685 – between July 16 and July 27, 1743) was a Swedish baron and Lieutenant General.
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Herman Wrangel
Herman Wrangel, born either 1584 or 1587 in Livonia, died 10 December 1643.
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History of Estonia
The history of Estonia forms a part of the history of Europe.
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History of Latvia
The history of Latvia began around 9000 BC with the end of the last glacial period in northern Europe.
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Jacob Sievers
Count Jacob Sievers (30 August 1731 in Wesenberg (now Rakvere), Estonia – 23 July 1808 in Bauenhof, Governorate of Livonia (near what is now Valmiera, Latvia)) was a Russian statesman from the Sievers family.
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Jakob von Uexküll
Jakob Johann Baron von Uexküll (8 September 1864 – 25 July 1944) was a Baltic German biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology, animal behaviour studies, and the cybernetics of life.
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Jelgava
Jelgava (Mitau; see also other names) is a city in central Latvia about southwest of Riga with about 63,000 inhabitants.
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Joseph Carl von Anrep
Joseph Carl von Anrep (Иосиф Романович Анреп; Iosif Romanovich Anrep-Elmpt; 1796 – 28 June 1860) was a Russian general, of Baltic German descent, during the Crimean War.
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Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn (Карл Эрнст фон Бэр; –) was an Estonian scientist and explorer.
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Knabenau, von
Knabenau or von Knabenau (also known as Baron von Knabenau) is the name of an ancient Courland nobility, originally from Silesia, and later it spreads in the 16th century in Courland.
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Lady-in-waiting of the Imperial Court of Russia
A lady-in-waiting of the Imperial Russian Court (придворные дамы) was a woman of high aristocracy at the service of a woman of the Imperial family.
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Land reform
Land reform (also agrarian reform, though that can have a broader meaning) involves the changing of laws, regulations or customs regarding land ownership.
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Latvia
Latvia (or; Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika), is a sovereign state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
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Lieven
The Lievens (Latvian Līveni; German Liewen) are one of the oldest aristocratic families of Baltic Germans.
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List of palaces and manor houses in Estonia
This is the List of palaces and manor houses in Estonia.
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List of palaces and manor houses in Latvia
This is a list of palaces and manor houses in Latvia built after the 16th century.
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Lithuanian nobility
The Lithuanian nobility was historically a legally privileged class in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania consisting of Lithuanians, from the historical regions of Lithuania Proper and Samogitia, and, following Lithuania's eastern expansion, many Ruthenian noble families (boyars).
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Livonian Knighthood
The Livonian Knighthood (Livländische Ritterschaft, Liivimaa rüütelkond, Livonijas bruņniecība) was a fiefdom that existed in Livonia (now Southern Estonia and Northern Latvia).
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Livonian War
The Livonian War (1558–1583) was fought for control of Old Livonia (in the territory of present-day Estonia and Latvia), when the Tsardom of Russia faced a varying coalition of Denmark–Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Union (later Commonwealth) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland.
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Magnus, Duke of Holstein
Magnus of Denmark or Magnus of Holstein (–) was a Prince of Denmark, Duke of Holstein, and a member of the House of Oldenburg.
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Manorialism
Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society.
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Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (1674–1748)
Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (5 April 1674 – 22 November 1748), was a Duchess consort of Courland by marriage to Duke Frederick Casimir Kettler of Courland, a Margravine consort of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by marriage to Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and a Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen by marriage to Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.
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Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (–) was a Russian Field Marshal and Minister of War during Napoleon's invasion in 1812 and War of the Sixth Coalition.
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Navigator
A navigator is the person on board a ship or aircraft responsible for its navigation.
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Nazi–Soviet population transfers
The Nazi–Soviet population transfers were population transfers between 1939 and 1941 of ethnic Germans (actual) and ethnic East Slavs (planned) in an agreement according to the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
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Northern Crusades
The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were religious wars undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and to a lesser extent also against Orthodox Christian Slavs (East Slavs).
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Occupation of the Baltic states
The occupation of the Baltic states involved the military occupation of the three Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—by the Soviet Union under the auspices of the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in June 1940 followed by their incorporation into the USSR as constituent republics in August 1940 - most Western powers never recognised this incorporation.
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Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (archaeologist)
Count Otto Magnus Baron von Stackelberg (25 July 1786 – 27 March 1837) was a Baltic German, Imperial Russian archaeologist, as well as a writer, painter and art historian.
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Otto von Kotzebue
Otto von Kotzebue (Russian: О́тто Евста́фьевич Коцебу́, Otto Evstàf'evič Kotsebù) (December 30, 1787 – February 15, 1846) was a Russian officer and navigator in the Imperial Russian Navy.
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Otto Wilhelm von Fersen
Otto Wilhelm von Fersen (1623, Reval – 1703, Kurna) was a Swedish general and nobleman of the Fersen family, governor general of Ingmermanland and Kexholm from 1691 to 1698, field marshal 1693.
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Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 (Julian calendar: April 25) – April 14, 1905) was a Russian astronomer.
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Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow
Patriarch Alexy II (or Alexius II, Патриарх Алексий II; secular name Alexey Mikhailovich von Ridiger Алексе́й Миха́йлович Ри́дигер; 23 February 1929 – 5 December 2008) was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Paul von Rennenkampf
Paul Georg Edler von Rennenkampf(f) (Russified into Павел-Георг Карлович (фон) Ренненкампф, Pavel-Georg Karlovich (von) Rennenkampf; – 1 April 1918) was an Baltic German nobleman and military leader of Baltic German extraction, General of the Cavalry (1910), General-Adjutant (1912), who served in the Imperial Russian Army.
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Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
Peter August Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (7 December 1697 – 22 March 1775) was a Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.
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Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg
Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, known in Russian as Pyotr Karlovich Klodt (Пётр Карлович Клодт; 1805 – 1867), was a favourite sculptor of Nicholas I of Russia.
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Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen
Count Peter Alekseyevich Pahlen (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Па́лен; German: Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen; 28 July 1745 – 25 February 1826) was a Russian courtier who played a pivotal role in the assassination of Emperor Paul.
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Philip Osipovich Paulucci
Filippo Paulucci delle Roncole (11 September 1779 – 25 January 1849), also known as Philip Osipovich Paulucci (Филипп Осипович Паулуччи), was an Italian marquis and army officer, later a general at the services of the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Russian Empire.
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Prince
A prince is a male ruler or member of a monarch's or former monarch's family ranked below a king and above a duke.
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Privy council
A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.
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Pyotr Wrangel
Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, also Vrangel; Freiherr Peter von Wrangel; (August 27, 1878 April 25, 1928) was a Russian officer in the Imperial Russian Army and later commanding general of the anti-Bolshevik White Army in Southern Russia in the later stages of the Russian Civil War.
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Riga
Riga (Rīga) is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
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Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Baron Roman Nicolaus Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg (Барон Ро́берт-Никола́й-Максими́лиан Рома́н Фёдорович фон У́нгерн-Ште́рнберг)adopted Russian name: Роман Фёдорович фон Унгерн-Штернберг, which transliterates as Roman Fyodorovich fon Ungern-Shternberg (10 January 1886 NS – 15 September 1921) was an Austrian-born Russian anti-Bolshevik lieutenant general in the Russian Civil War and then an independent warlord whose Asiatic Cavalry Division wrested control of Mongolia from the Republic of China in 1921 after its occupation.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.
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Russian nobility
The Russian nobility (дворянство. dvoryanstvo) arose in the 14th century.
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Saaremaa
Saaremaa (Danish: Øsel; English (esp. traditionally): Osel; Finnish: Saarenmaa; Swedish & German: Ösel) is the largest island in Estonia, measuring.
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Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (Schleswig-Holstein-Beck for short) was a line of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg branch of the House of Oldenburg.
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Serfdom
Serfdom is the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism.
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Sievers family
The Sievers family is a noble Baltic German family that owned a number of estates in the present-day Baltic States, including the Wenden Castle.
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Social class
A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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State Council (Russian Empire)
The State Council (p) was the supreme state advisory body to the Tsar in Imperial Russia.
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Swedish Empire
The Swedish Empire (Stormaktstiden, "Great Power Era") was a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region during the 17th and early 18th centuries.
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Swedish nobility
The Swedish nobility (Adeln) has historically been a legally and/or socially privileged class in Sweden, and part of the so-called frälse (a derivation from Old Swedish meaning free neck).
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Szlachta
The szlachta (exonym: Nobility) was a legally privileged noble class in the Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Samogitia (both after Union of Lublin became a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) and the Zaporozhian Host.
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Tallinn
Tallinn (or,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Estonia.
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Terra Mariana
Terra Mariana (Medieval Latin for "Land of Mary") was the official name for Medieval Livonia or Old Livonia (Alt-Livland, Vana-Liivimaa, Livonija), which was formed in the aftermath of the Livonian Crusade in the territories comprising present day Estonia and Latvia.
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Tiesenhausen
Tiesenhausen is the name of a Baltic German nobility family.
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Vyborg
Vyborg (p; Viipuri,; Viborg; Wiborg; Viiburi) is a town in, and the administrative center of, Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_nobility
