Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen
Berend Gregor Ferdinand Graf von Tiesenhausen ( Russian Фёдор (Фердинанд) Иванович Тизенгаузен ; born May 21, jul. / 1. June 1782 greg. In Tallinn , † November 21 jul. / 3. December 1805 greg. In street village ) was an adjutant Tsar Alexander I , who died in the battle of Austerlitz .
origin
Ferdinand came from the Baltic German noble family Tiesenhausen . His parents were Hans Heinrich von Tiesenhausen (* January 30, 1741; † May 20, 1815) and his wife Katharina Frederike von Stackelberg (* September 1753; † March 1826).
Life
Tiesenhausen embarked on a military career and fought in the Battle of Austerlitz, in which his father-in-law was in command of the Russian troops. He was badly wounded when he stormed forward in a counterattack with a heavy flag that had previously fallen to the ground. When Napoléon saw him lying wrapped in his flag after the battle, he is said to have exclaimed: “Quelle belle mort!” (“What a beautiful death!”). Leo Tolstoy later dealt with Tiesenhausen's “heroic deed” in his novel War and Peace as the deed of Andrej Bolkónski.
The injured was brought to the Malík family inn in Straßendorf . There he died a little later from his serious injuries. His body was buried in the garden of the inn. In the spring of 1806 the body was exhumed on the instructions of his uncle and transferred by his brother to his Estonian homeland in Reval. Tiesenhausen received an obelisk made of different colored marble in Tallinn Cathedral as a tomb . In Straßendorf there is a cross with a Russian and a Czech inscription on the former grave.
family
He was married to Elisabeta Mikhailovna Golenishchewa-Kutusowa, Princess of Smolensk (1783-1839), daughter of Field Marshal Prince Mikhail Illarionowitsch Kutusow , with whom he had two daughters. His daughter Dorothea (1804–1863) married the Austrian general and statesman Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont in 1821 . The older daughter Catherine (1803–1868) became a lady- in- waiting in Saint Petersburg .
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatiana Metternich : The Stroganoffs. An uncrowned dynasty . Verlag Knaus, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-8135-0067-5 , p. 309
- ^ Alfons Clary-Aldringen: Stories of an old Austrian . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-550-07474-3 , p. 35.
- ^ Rainer Eisenschmid: Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Königsberg area . Verlag Baedeker, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-8297-1052-6 , p. 201.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tiesenhausen, Ferdinand von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tiesenhausen, Berend Gregor Ferdinand von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian wing adjutant in the coalition wars |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 1805 |
| Place of death | at Austerlitz |