Alexander Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn

Prince Alexander Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn

Princely coat of arms (1880) Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn

Prince Alexander Magnus Frederick Barclay de Tolly Weymarn ( Russian Александр Петрович Барклай-де-Толли-Веймарн ; born December 10 ^{. Jul} / 22. December  1824 ^greg. In Parnu , † April 25 ^jul. / 8. May  1905 ^greg. in Dresden ) was an Imperial Russian infantry general .

Life

origin

Alexander Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn came from the German-Baltic noble family Weymarn . His parents were the Imperial Russian Lieutenant General and Adjutant General Wilhelm von Weymarn (1793–1846) and Christine von Lüders (1803–1887).

Military career

He began his career in the army with the page corps in Saint Petersburg .

Since 1843 he was an ensign in the Preobrazhensky body guard regiment and in 1849 became a wing adjutant and adjutant to the head of the imperial headquarters. In 1855 he was promoted to colonel and was in command of the imperial headquarters from 1856 to 1863. He rose to major general in 1860 . From 1863 to 1867 he was commander of the Pavlovsky Guard Regiment, was promoted to adjutant general and lieutenant general in 1867 and was commander of the 26th Infantry Division from 1868 to 1876. In 1876 he rose to the commanding general of the AK infantry, took part in the Russo-Ottoman War in 1877/1878 , was promoted for the last time in 1882, to general of the infantry, and finally dimitted in 1888.

On May 17, 1872, by decree of the Senate, and again on November 2, 1872 by the highest decree, the title of prince of the Russian Field Marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly , whose line had expired, was inherited by his sister grandson and great-nephew Alexander von Weymarn. From then on, he carried the title of Prince with the salutation of exaltation and the name Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn . The princely line founded in this way, however, with his grandson, the Imperial Russian Rittmeister in the Life Guard Hussar Regiment , Prince Nikolaus Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn (1892–1964), expired.

Alexander Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn was the owner of the Beckhof family affide in what was then Fellin County , which remained in the family until the Estonian land reform in 1919 . He also owned the (not preserved) country estate Kaskowo in the Saint Petersburg Governorate , about 60 km southwest of Saint Petersburg. 1883 his family was in the Livonian knights enrolled .

Awards

Russian medals

• Order of St. Vladimir 4th (1856), 3rd (1860) and 2nd (1869) class
• St. Annaorden 3rd (1849), 2nd (1855) and 1st (1864) class
• Imperial-Royal Order of the White Eagle
• Order of St. Stanislaus 1st Class (1861)
• Alexander Nevsky Order (1886)

Foreign orders

• Oldenburg Cross of Merit 3rd Class
• Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog
• Order of the Red Eagle 1st Class (1873)
• Austrian Order of the Iron Crown 1st Class (1874)
• Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the Sword
• Grand Cross of the House Order of the Wendish Crown

family

Prince Alexander Magnus Friedrich Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn (1824–1905), Fideikommissherr auf Beckhof, Herr auf Kaskowo, Imperial Russian Infantry General and Adjutant General of the Emperor, ⚭ 1849 Baron Marie Friederike von Seddeler (1825–1868), daughter of the Imperial - Russian Lieutenant General Baron Ludwig von Seddeler († 1852)

Children:

• Princess Alexandrine ( Ada ) Auguste Olga Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn (1854–1945), writer, ⚭ 1883 Alexis von Krusenstjerna adH Haggud (1859–1909), lord of Stäflö, Kalmar Lan , imperial Russian colonel
• Prince Ludwig ( Louis ) Alexander Michael Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn (1859–1903), District Marshal of Peterhof , Imperial Russian Colonel of the Life Guard Regiment of the Grodnos Hussars and attaché at the embassy in Paris, ⚭ 1882 Katharina Tschernyshev (1861–1925), daughter of the Imperial Russian Major General Feodor Sergejewitsch Tschernyshev
• Princess Marie ( Mira ) Georgia Augusta Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn (1863–1939), ⚭ 1888 Baron Georg Christian Joachim von Thuemmler (1858–1922), Lord of Selka , ducal chamberlain of Saxony-Altenburg and legal knight of the Order of St. John

literature

• Nicolai von Essen (Hrsg.): Genealogical manual of the Oeselschen knighthood . Tartu, 1935, p. 443.
• Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) , Volume 2, Hamburg 2012, pp. 28–31.
• Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods . Part 2, 3: Estonia. Görlitz 1930, pp. 274f.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Alexander Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Family Barclay-de-Tolly-Weymarn on geneall.net