Baron Vasily Vasilievich von Wrangel ( German: Wilhelm Bernhard Friedrich von Wrangel ; 1796/1797, Pskov - 1872) - Russian admiral (1866).
| Vasily / Bergnard Vasilievich Wrangel | ||||||||||||
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| Wilhelm Bernhard Freiedrich von Wrangel | ||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | January 6 (17), 1797 | |||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Pskov | |||||||||||
| Date of death | April 25 ( May 7 ) 1872 (75 years old) | |||||||||||
| Place of death | Revel | |||||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||||||||||
| Type of army | Navy of the Russian Empire | |||||||||||
| Rank | admiral | |||||||||||
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| Communications | brother : professor-lawyer Wrangel, Egor Vasilievich | |||||||||||
The son of Baron Wilhelm Wrangel ( German: Bernhard Wilhelm von Wrangel ; 1747 - 1845 ; from the house of Lüdenhof ) and Baroness Barbara Wrangel ( German: Hedwig Barbara Elisabeth von Wrangell ; 1758 - 1838 ; from the house of Lagen [1] ).
Vasily Vasilievich Wrangel is the brother of Professor Yegor Vasilievich Wrangel , cousin Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel [2] and second cousin Yegor Yermolaevich Wrangel ( 1803 - 1868 ) - grandfather P.N. Wrangel .
Since 1809 he studied at the Naval Cadet Corps . Since 1815 he served as midshipman in the Baltic Fleet. In 1817, with the rank of midshipman, he took part in a voyage abroad on the ship "Dresden" in Cadiz (Spain). February 27, 1820 promoted to lieutenant . In the campaign of 1820 on the ship "Leipzig" cruised in the Baltic Sea.
In 1822-1828 he was an assistant to Professor V. Ya. Struve during his work on the degree measurement; in 1828-1839 - Assistant General F. F. Schubert during trigonometric and astronomical work on the shores of the Baltic Sea . April 6, 1830 promoted to lieutenant commander . December 31, 1831 transferred to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the corps of naval navigators. He participated in the Schubert chronometric expedition, then was the head of the survey and sounding operations in the Baltic Sea. Since December 6, 1849 Wrangel - major general [3] ; On August 30, 1855 he was promoted to lieutenant general [3] and appointed head of the Baltic lighthouses , and in 1860, on top of this, a revelry commander from the port with renaming on June 21 as vice admirals [4] and production on January 1, 1866 as full admirals [4] . In 1872 he was awarded the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky .
Wrangel was a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (since 1828) [5] and a member of the military academy in Stockholm .
From 16.10.1831 he was married to Ida von Helmersen (1808-1888). Their only son is the actual state adviser Vasily Berngardovich (Wilhelm Andreas Georg; 1832 - 1905 ).
Notes
- ↑ Stackelberg, Otto Magnus von. Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften . - Görlitz , 1931. - S. 595. (German)
- ↑ In 1884, Vasily Berngardovich (Vasilievich) Wrangel wrote about the birth of his cousin through his mother and father: “Baron Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel was born on December 29, 1796 in Pskov, in his uncle’s house, before they expected him, and since his aunt was also to give birth, then the newborn was put in the cradle assigned to another child of Baron Vasily, who was born on January 6, 1797 and both boys were in the same cradle, and after 5 years Ferdinand Petrovich, after the death of his parents, was taken to the house uncles and grew up with Baron Vasily-Bern ardom Vasilyevich Wrangel, both arrived in 1810 in the Marine Corps, in 1815 promoted to warrant officers "- see Ovechkin EV. Not returning //" Pskov gubernіya ". - January 2012. - No. 2 (574).
- ↑ 1 2 [ http://www.rusgeneral.ru/general_v4.html List of general ranks of the Russian imperial army and navy] . Generals of the Russian imperial army and navy .
- ↑ 1 2 [ http://www.rusgeneral.ru/general_v4.html List of general ranks of the Russian imperial army and navy] . Generals of the Russian imperial army and navy .
- ↑ Profile of Vasily Vasilievich (Bernhard Wilhelm) Wrangel on the official website of the RAS
Sources
- General maritime list. Part 6: The reign of Paul I and the reign of Alexander I. - SPb: 1892 - p. 566-568
- Stackelberg, Otto Magnus von. Wrangell // Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften . - Görlitz , 1931. - T. 1. - S. 577. (German)
- Wrangel, Vasily Vasilievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.