Abram Petrovich Gannibal

Abraham Petrovich Hannibal, Russian Абрам ( Ибрагим ) Петрович Ганнибал (* about 1696 in Logon ewan in Eritrea or Logone - Birni, Cameroon, . † 14 Maijul / May 25 1781greg in Suida in St. Petersburg. ) Was the son of a local African Prince in " Logon" and Russian major general and governor of Reval, 1759 Commander in Chief (General -en- Chef) for Seeforts and sewer construction and godson of Peter the Great. He was the maternal great-grandfather of the poet Alexander Pushkin.

Life

Among the pages of Tsar Peter the Great there was a time a young black man named Abraham (see Pushkin's novel " The Moor of the Tsar "). Its origin is controversial. According to his own statements, he was from Logon and had been brought by Ottoman troops on the coast, from where he came to Constantinople Opel. Since his son called him an Abyssinian, the land logon ewan in present-day Eritrea was identified as its region of origin. This also fits with his statement that he was the son of a prince, since this region had become the center of power of local princes at that time. However, there is recent research, which was also the city Logone Lake Chad, the seat of the princes, shall designate as a possible origin. Abraham had bought from the Messenger of Count Tolstoy in Constantinople Opel and nine years old, literally translated with Peter as sponsors and Countess Katharina Opalinska, Queen of Poland, as Patin on July 13, 1705 in Vilnius as Peter Petrovich Petrov ( Пётр Петрович Петров: Peter, son of Peter, Peter's son ) was baptized, then entered the service of the Tsar and had bewitched him right away by his kindness and his intelligence. He slept in the turner 's workshop of the ruler and accompanied him on all his campaigns.

When Abraham was twenty-two years old, he was sent to Paris to complete his education. He joined the French army, was promoted during the campaign against Spain in 1720 to lieutenant, suffered a head injury, returned to Paris, entered the school of engineering, left this with Captain rank and eventually returned to Russia.

There he served as a lieutenant in the artillery regiment, commanded Peter. The Tsar appreciated the seriousness and devotion of this follower with the dark face. After Peter's death, Tsar Hannibal fell victim to political intrigue and was in 1727 sent to Siberia in exile. Three years later he was able to return to the Russian court again. Under the reign of Empresses Elizabeth I and Catherine II he rose to become landowners. Hannibal died at his country house in Suida in St. Petersburg. He had served under eight Tsar or empresses and two Ottoman sultans ( Mustafa II and Ahmed III. ).

Abraham Petrovich Hannibal was married twice. In his first marriage he was married to the Greek Eudoxia Dioper, from the marriage that ended in divorce because of her infidelity, a daughter emerged. From the second marriage to the German - Swedish royalty Christina Regina from Siöberg he had ten children

Worth mentioning

• The Countess Sophie of Merenberg (1868-1927) was the granddaughter of the poet Pushkin and the wife ( marriage to the left ) of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich Romanov ( 1861-1929 ).
• Their daughter, Countess Nadia de Torby Mikhailovna (1896-1963), was by marriage a member of the British royal family; and by their nephew and godson, Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, the aunt of the present British Queen Elizabeth II
• Natalia Ayesha Phillips ( b. 1959 ), wife of Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster ( b. 1951 ) and godmother of Prince William Mountbatten -Windsor, is a great-granddaughter of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and his wife Natalya Nikolaevna Puschkina - Lanskaja.
• In the film Russian Ark Hannibal welcomes the daughters of Tsar Nicholas II prior to their dining room.