Ivan Fersen

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yevstafyevich and the family name is Fersen.
Order of Saint George
Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky [1]
RelationsFersen family

in Finland against the Swedes, where he assisted Vasily Chichagov's ships in the Bay of Vyborg with the fire of coastal artillery batteries, increasing the confusion of the Swedish warships in the bay.[2][1] He also fought in the Polish–Russian War of 1792 and the Kościuszko Uprising.[2]

In 1792, in the aftermath of the adoption of the

Suvorov. In 1797 he was appointed director of the First Cadet Corps; he soon retired and died in his Livonian estate.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Pre-1918 Russian orthography
  2. ^ since 1793[1]
  3. preposition which approximately means of or from and usually denotes some sort of nobility. While von (always lower case) is part of the family name or territorial designation, not a first or middle name, if the noble is referred to by his last name, use Schiller, Clausewitz or Goethe
    , not von Schiller, etc.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Polovtsov 1901.
  2. ^ a b c d Arsenyev & Petrushevsky 1902.

Sources

  • Arsenyev, Konstantin; Petrushevsky, Fyodor (1902). Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). Vol. 70: Фенолы – Финляндия. Friedrich A. Brockhaus (Leipzig), Ilya A. Efron (Saint Petersburg). pp. 582–583.
  • Polovtsov, Alexander (1901). Russian Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 21: Фабер – Цявловский. St. Petersburg: Типография В. Безобразова и Ко. pp. 51–52.


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