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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.
Prince Pyotr Romanovich Bagration, the son of general Prince Roman Bagration, was a Russian-Georgian statesman, general and scientist who invented the first dry galvanic cell.
The Governorate of Estonia, also known as the Governorate of Esthonia was a governorate in the Baltic region, along with the Livonian and Courland Governorates. It was a part of the Imperial Russian administration (guberniya), which is located in modern-day northern Estonia and some islands in the West Estonian archipelago, including the islands of Hiiumaa and Vormsi. The Governorate was established in 1796 when Paul I's reform abolished the Viceroyalty (namestnik). Previously, the Reval Governorate existed under Peter I's reign from the Treaty of Nystad, which ceded territory from Sweden to the newly established Russian Empire, until its inexistence in 1783.
The Baltic governorates, originally the Ostsee governorates, was a collective name for the administrative units of the Russian Empire set up in the territories of Swedish Estonia, Swedish Livonia (1721) and, afterwards, of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1795).
Lodewijk Sigismund Vincent Gustaaf Reichsgraf van Heiden was a Dutch naval officer and Orangist who went into exile from the Batavian Republic and served in the Russian Navy. He ultimately became a Russian admiral and commanded a squadron of the Imperial Russian Navy in the Battle of Navarino (1827).
Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky was a Russian and Soviet painter, a member of the Knave of Diamonds group.
The House of Pahlen is an old German, Estonian, Russian, Lithuanian, Swedish and Baltic German noble family of Pomeranian origin.
The Saint Petersburg Governorate was a governorate of the Russian Empire, with its administrative centre in Saint Petersburg. The governorate was composed of 44,613 square kilometres (17,225 sq mi) of area and 2,112,033 inhabitants. The Saint Petersburg Governorate was bordered by the Estonian and Livonian Governorates to the west, the Pskov Governorate to the south, the Novgorod Governorate to the east, the Olonets Governorate to the northeast, and the Vyborg Governorate of the Grand Duchy of Finland to the north. The governorate covered most of the areas of modern Leningrad Oblast and Ida-Viru, Jõgeva, Tartu, Põlva, and Võru counties of Estonia.
Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a dramatist, opera librettist and translator from the Russian Empire.
The Nativity of Christ Cathedral, Riga, Latvia was built to a design by Nikolai Chagin and Robert Pflug in a Neo-Byzantine style between 1876 and 1883, with decorations made by the firm of August Volz, during the period when the country was part of the Russian Empire. It is the largest Orthodox cathedral in the Baltic provinces built with the blessing of the Russian Tsar Alexander II on the initiative of local governor-general Pyotr Bagration and bishop Veniamin Karelin. The Nativity of Christ Cathedral is renowned for its icons, some of which were painted by Vasili Vereshchagin. During the First World War German troops occupied Riga and turned its largest Russian Orthodox cathedral into a Lutheran church. In independent Latvia, the Nativity of Christ Cathedral once again became an Orthodox cathedral in 1921. Archbishop Jānis Pommers, a native Latvian, played a key part in the defence of the cathedral, including defence from the Latvian government which was extremely unfriendly to Orthodox Church in the first years of an independent Latvia. In the early 1960s, Soviet authorities closed down the cathedral and converted its building into a planetarium. The cathedral has been restored since Latvia regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Courland Governorate, also known as the Province of Courland, Governorate of Kurland and known from 1795 to 1796 as the Viceroyalty of Courland was one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, that is now part of the Republic of Latvia.
Frolov, or Frolova is a Russian surname that is derived from the male given name Frol and literally means Frol's. It may refer to:
Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov was a Russian landscape and seascape painter.
The House of Volkonsky, also spelled Volkonski or Wolkonsky, is an ancient Russian noble family, belonging to the Rurikids. It was named after the Volkona river south of Moscow. The family held the title of Prince in the Russian Empire.
Peter von Glehn was a Baltic German botanist.
The governor-general of the Baltic provinces or governor-general of Estonia, Livonia, and Courland was the military commander of the Riga Military District and the highest administrator of the Baltic governorates of Estonia, Livonia and Courland sporadically under Russian rule in the 19th century.
Carl Timoleon von Neff, also russified from 1844 as Timofey Andreyevich Neff was a Russian Imperial artist of Baltic German descent.
Events from the year 1800 in Russia
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