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 Germanic military and political figure, General-Field Marshal (1914). |
 The Roman commander, praetor (93 BC AD.), Consul (88 BC AD.) Dictator (82 BC AD.). |
 Rhode Wrangel, leading his descent from the XIII century, was of Danish origin. Many of its representatives have served under the flags of Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Holland and Spain, as well as Livonia and Estonia finally confirmed for Russia, Wrangel began faithfully serve Russia′s crown. In the genus Wrangel was 7 field marshals, 18 generals and 2 Admiral (the name of one of them named F. Wrangel Island in the Arctic and Pacific oceans). |
 Princely family Golitsyn, its origin from the descendants of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, who are vitally connected with the great princes of Moscow and later to the Romanov dynasty, in the fifth generation of the founder of Bulak-Holice divided into four main branches. By that time among the members of the genus Golitsyn was 22 Boyar, 3 Okolnichy and 2 kravchih. Representatives of the genus have long held high positions at the court of the great princes and even laid claim to the throne. |
 For the novel "War and Peace, LN Tolstoy took the prototype of the hero Andrei Bolkonsky several representatives of the princes Volkonskiis. They were the heroes of the Napoleonic wars, and military career has long been a hallmark of this ancient noble family. Rhode Volkonskiis goes back to times immemorial, from the princes of Chernigov (other sources - Ryazan). Representatives of the genus has always stood for the protection of native land. The memory of many of them preserved in tradition. |
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- Many of its representatives have served under the flags of Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Holland and Spain, as well as Livonia and Estonia finally confirmed for Russia, Wrangel began faithfully serve Russia′s crown…
- During the three years before the First World War in Germany was 470 generals, but those whose names were widely known to the public, hardly had accumulated a dozen…
- For the novel "War and Peace, LN Tolstoy took the prototype of the hero Andrei Bolkonsky several representatives of the princes Volkonskiis…
- Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, belonged to an ancient noble family, also known as Collin, and only to the end of XVIII century, adopted a final name of Wellesley…
- Double names in Russia, there were quite a long time, almost simultaneously with the actual names…
- Princely family Golitsyn, its origin from the descendants of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, who are vitally connected with the great princes of Moscow and later to the Romanov dynasty, in the fifth generation of the founder of Bulak-Holice divided into four main branches…
- Princely family Skopin-Shuisky known from the XV century, is not numerous branch of the Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod feudal princes Shuiskys, the ancestor of which was Yuri Shuya…
- One of the most ancient Roman families is kind of Cornelia, who gave the Roman history of a large number of statesmen and generals…
- After the death of his brother Stesagera Miltiades inherited all his fortune and power in the Chersonese…