Baron Nikolai Alekandrovich Vrangel ( 1869 , Strelna - 1927 , Rome ) is a Russian general from the Wrangel clan who manages the affairs and adjutant of Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich .
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| Date of Birth | August 25, 1869 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Strelna , Peterhof County , St. Petersburg Province | |||||
| Date of death | March 7, 1927 (57 years old) | |||||
| Place of death | Rome | |||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||||
| Type of army | Cavalry | |||||
| Rank | Major General | |||||
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Biography
The son of a diplomat Baron Alexander Egorovich Wrangel [1] .
In 1890 he graduated from the Alexander Lyceum . In 1891, he passed the officer exam at the Nikolaevsky Cavalry School on the first grade and was determined to be a Horse Guards Regiment .
Ranks: Cornet Guard (1891), Lieutenant of the Guard (1895), Staff Captain of the Guard (1900), Captain of the Guard (1903), Army Lieutenant Colonel (1903), Colonel (1907), Major General (1916).
In 1901 he was enrolled in the office of Empress Maria Feodorovna . Served i.d. clerk of the manager of affairs (1901-1907), clerk of the manager of affairs (1907-1909), secretary (1909-1912), adjutant (since 1911) and manager of affairs (1912-1913) with Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich . In 1911 he published a collection of "Poems", reprinted in 1913.
In 1913-1914 he was the commander of the 16th Irkutsk Hussars . In 1914 he returned to the post of adjutant of Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich. On April 19, 1917 was in the reserve ranks at the headquarters of the Dvina military district .
After the revolution he emigrated to Italy . In 1927 he committed suicide .
Awards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd century. (1901);
- Order of St. Anne 3rd century. (1903);
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1905);
- Order of St. Anne 2nd century. (1906);
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th century (1910).
Family
In June 1894, in the Dresden Orthodox Church, N. A. Wrangel was married to 19-year-old maid of honor, Maria Vladimirovna Skaryatina, the sister of the occultist M. V. Skaryatina . Divorced in 1907. Children from this marriage [1] :
- Mary (12.3.1895 —?), Married to G. P. Borov from December 1916
- Vera (19.5.1896 -?), In December 1918 in London, she married N. D. Semenov-Tian-Shansky (1888-1974)
- Vladimir (19.2.1898 —?)
- Ksenia (25.2.1902-1918)
- George (3.9.1903—?)
All children, except Vera, were born on the estate of Terpilitsa .
The second marriage, 16/7/1915, married Baroness Elizabeth Bartholdovna (Feodorovna) Goyningen-Gyune (1891-1973), sister of the famous American photographer , but already in 1916 he was divorced from her. In December 1922, "Betty" Wrangell married a British officer, Charles Norman Buzzard (1873–1961) [2] , a hero of the First World War [3] . In the years 1922-1933. headed the Paris fashion house Yteb [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Genealogisches Handbuch der estländischen Ritterschaft, Bd. 1 . - Görlitz, 1931. - S. 579. (German)
- The The Peerage Genealogy Review
- ↑ His older brother for services to medical science was granted a baronet, and his younger brother, who served as a general, was married to the daughter of painter Collier from his marriage to the daughter of the zoologist T.G. Huxley .
- А. A. Vasiliev. Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility; Freedom of the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion. - Harry N. Abrams, 2000. - ISBN 9780810957015 . - P. 234.
Links
- Wrangel, Nikolai Aleksandrovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."
- Baron Wrangel Nikolai Aleksandrovich