Emil zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

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Emil zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 1865
Kamila Stefańska, 1865

Emil Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born April 21, 1824 in Darmstadt , †  September 16, 1878 in Egern am Tegernsee ) was a general in the Imperial Russian Army .

Life

Wittgenstein was the eldest son of Prince August Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , Lieutenant General and later Minister of State of Nassau , and his wife Franziska Maria Fortunata Allesina called von Schweitzer (1802–1878). He himself entered the service of the Grand Ducal Hesse at the age of 17 , where he became a lieutenant in the Grand Ducal Guard Chevauleger Regiment . Four years later he was promoted to major . In the same year, 1845, he accompanied Prince Alexander to the Caucasus , took part in the fighting there and was then involved in the war against Denmark in 1848 . When he was released from the grand ducal army in autumn 1848 because of his conservative views and statements, he went to Russia and joined the Russian army in 1849. He became adjutant to the Russian viceroy in the Caucasus , Vorontsov , and took part in armed conflicts there again. In 1852 he became a wing adjutant to Tsar Nicholas I. When the Crimean War broke out , he was first inspector of the field hospitals , but was then given a command of troops in Asia Minor until 1856 .

In 1862, during the riots that preceded the Polish January uprising of 1863, Wittgenstein was assigned to Grand Duke Constantine in Warsaw ; he stayed there until 1865. After his wife died in August 1865, Wittgenstein retired in 1866. Wittgenstein took part in the Russian-Ottoman War (1877–1878) in the wake of the Tsar in the Danube region from 1877–1878 , but returned to Germany before the end of the war due to health problems.

He died on September 16, 1878 in Egern am Tegernsee.

Marriages and families

Prince Emil was married twice. When he was assigned to Paris in 1856, he met Princess Pulcheria Cantacuzene-Pascanu (* February 9, 1840 - August 19, 1865), whom he married on June 15, 1856. The couple then lived mostly in Italy . The marriage had a daughter:

  • Lucia zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (* March 18, 1859 - September 24, 1903), who married the Hereditary Prince Viktor von Schönburg-Waldenburg (1856–1888) in 1880 .

On December 28, 1868, he married the from a humble background and a week earlier by Grand Duke Ludwig III. Polish ballet dancer Kamila (Camilla) Stefańska (born January 21, 1838 in Łomża , † November 8, 1902 in Wiesbaden ), who was raised from Hessen-Darmstadt to Baroness von Kleydorff , who had danced the giselle in Saint Petersburg in the spring of 1868 . From this marriage three sons were born:

Fonts

  • Cavalry sketches. Darmstadt 1859
  • Germany in its place! published anonymously, Darmstadt 1860
  • Protection of Christians in the Orient. Frankfurt 1860 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nina.gov.pl: Kamila Józefa Stefańska. Retrieved November 13, 2018 (Polish).
  2. ↑ In most sources, the year of birth is incorrectly given as 1840. The correct year can be found in the birth register of the parish Łomży, 1838, No. 29, pp. 7–8, cf. pl: Kamila Stefańska # cite_note-1 .
  3. ↑ Camille Stefańska's grave (later baroness Camilla von Kleydorff) on Kleydorff's family graveyard in a park close to Hohenwehrda Castle. July 17, 2007, accessed November 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Yekaterina Vazem: Memoirs of a ballerina of the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Theater , Leningrad, 1937; Translated into English by Nina Dimitrievitch for the journal Dance Research and published in four parts between 1985 and 1988.
  5. ↑ Emil became a well-known opera singer and film actor under the stage name Franz Egenieff (also Franz von Egenieff).

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personal data
SURNAME Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Emil zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Emil Prinz zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Russian General
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1878
Place of death Egern