Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden
. Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden (also: Friedrich von Buxhöwden or Fedor Fedorovich of Buxhöwden ) (* 2 Septemberjul / September 13 1750greg in Magnusdal, Muhu in Saaremaa, Estonia; † 23 Augustjul / September 4 1811greg on. .. Castle Lohde ( estn: Koluvere ) at Kullamaa, Estonia ) was a Baltic German general and military leader, governor of Poland and military governor of Saint Petersburg.
Family
Buxhoeveden comes from a Lower Saxony Uradelsgeschlecht from Bexhövede (today district of Cuxhaven ), that there is first mentioned in 1185 in records and summarized in Livonia foot in the 13th century (see: Buxhoeveden ).
Friedrich Wilhelm was one of 13 children of Otto Friedrich von Buxhoeveden ( 1703-1754 ) and Charlotte Helene von Weymarn ( 1722-1776 ). On January 29, 1777 he married in St. Petersburg Natalya Aleksandrovna Alekseeva (* 1761 in Saint Petersburg, † July 1808 ), an illegitimate daughter of the Russian Count Grigori Grigoryevich Orlov ( 1734-1783 ). The widespread assumption that they with the Czarina Catherine comes from the liaison of Count the Great (1729-1796), only based on the assumption that Orlov Tsarina has remained faithful. In fact, the mother of Princess Elena Kurakina, born Countess Apraksina may have been. Natalya and her sister Elizaveta were educated by the adoptive parents in the family of Peter Burger Supreme Aleksandr Alekseev. Their son of Catherine II and Count Orlov is known by name as Count Bobrinskij.
The couple had eight children Buxhöwden.
Life
Buxhoeveden was known primarily for his participation in the Battle of Austerlitz, in which he commanded the three Russian columns of about 40,000 men, but he also participated in several other battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
As Imperial Russian Major General, he was on 18 December 1795 in Berlin by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia in the title of count and the 5./16. April 1797 in St. Petersburg by Tsar Paul I raised to the Russian count conditions.
After the annexation of Finland by Russian forces in 1808 Buxhöwden was there for the Governor-General.