Fyodor Logginovich van Heiden
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire | |
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| Allegiance |  Russian Empire |
| Service/ | Imperial Russian Army |
| Years of service | 1835–1900 |
| Rank |  General of the Infantry |
| Commands held | Finland Military District (1881–1898) |
| Battles/wars | Caucasian War
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 |
Count Fyodor Logginovich Heiden (born Friedrich Moritz Reichsgraf
Background
Friedrich Moritz Reichsgraf van Heiden was born in
Earlier career
Young van Heiden fought in the
In 1854, he married Countess Elisabeth Nikolayevna Zubova (1833–1894), the daughter of Countess Alexandra Raimond-Modène (1807–1839).[2] Her father Count Nikolay Dmitrievich Zubov (1801–1871; Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Зубов) was Steward of the Russian Imperial Court, himself the son of princess Paraskeva Viazemskaia and Count Dmitri Alexandrovich Zubov, one of the brothers of Prince Platon Zubov. Countess Elisabeth was a first cousin of countess Olga van Suchtelen.
After the war, van Heiden was chiefly a member of the General Staff. He participated in Dmitry Milyutin's military reforms and was appointed as head of the General Staff (Glavni Stab) in 1866. He also chaired the conscription committee that enacted the conscription in Russia in 1874, and was in charge of the mobilization during the Turkish War, acting as Minister of War during Milyutin's absence during the Turkish War.
In 1870, van Heiden was promoted to full general. Eleven years later, he was appointed Governor-General of Finland.
Governor-General
Although he had adopted Russian culture later in life, van Heiden was eagerly Russian and a
To attain this goal, van Heiden supported the use of Finnish as the language of administration, university, and military, as opposed to the traditionally dominant Swedish. In appointments to public offices in government, administration, justice, and military, he favored the conservative and monarchist Finnish Party and those who had learned the Russian language well and resided in Russia, as opposed to possibly separatist Swedes and the liberal Swedish Party. Van Heiden furthered trade between Finland and Russia, and reduced customs formalities.
Another of his priorities was to clarify jurisdiction within Finland, defining which decisions belonged to the imperial government and which to autonomous local governments in Finland.
He was awarded Order of Prince Danilo I and a number of other decorations.[3]
References
- ^ Regarding personal names: Reichsgraf is a title, usually translated as Imperial Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Reichsgräfin. Titles using the prefix Reichs- were not created after the fall of the Holy Roman Empire.
- ^ (in German) Genealogy handbook of Baltic nobility: Estonia pp.301-302
- ^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 626.
Sources
- (in Finnish) Seitkari, Olavi: Kenraalikuvernööri kreivi Fedor Logginovits Heiden Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Genos 18 (1947), pp. 80–86
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