Nikolai Konstantin von Freymann

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Nikolai Konstantin von Freymann (* 24. February 1851 in Kiev ; † 26. April 1904 in Tashkent ) was a Russian major general with Baltic descent.

Life

On September 4, 1864, his military education and training began in the Imperial Russian page corps . He fulfilled his wish to serve in the Imperial Russian Navy by starting his service as a volunteer on the training ship "Gromoboi" in 1867 . After his first exam he returned to the page corps and was appointed chamber page in 1868 . In 1869 he became a cadet promoted and the bodyguard -Gatschina- hunters - Regiment added. At his own request, he came in 1873 to the fortress artillery of Kronstadt and was in the same year Secondeleutnant and 1875 to lieutenant promoted. His first war mission was with an artillery company in the Russo-Ottoman War from 1877 to 1878. In March 1879 he was briefly assigned to the Bulgarian army and returned to Kronstadt in July 1879. In 1880 he joined the Vladivostok fortress artillery and was appointed head of training. In 1885 he directed the operational readiness of the Vladivostok fortress artillery. He stayed in Vladivostok until 1886 and was then transferred to the Vyborg fortress artillery, where he was also promoted to lieutenant colonel and colonel . His next use took him to Tashkent in 1889, where he took command of the Turkestan fortress artillery. In 1883 he was honored with the Russian Order of St. Stanilaus and in 1888 he was awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne (3rd class). Nikolai Konstantin fell ill with cancer , which was operated on in Berlin without success , as a result of this illness he was dismissed as major general from the service of the Imperial Russian Army and lived in Tashkent until his death on April 26, 1904.

music lovers

In addition to his military career, Nikolai Konstantin was also interested in musical performances. Already in Kronstadt he took part in the musical evenings in the Kronstadt naval club. In 1883 he founded the Vladivostok Musical Circle in Vladivostok, of which he later became an honorary member. He also founded a music association in Vyborg and from 1894 promoted the “Morgenmuße” founded by the military club, in which children aged 4–12 could be musically active.

Origin and family

Nikolai Konstantin came from the Baltic noble family von Freymann from the house of Nursie (II. Line), he was the son of the Russian major general Rudolph Karl Ernst von Freymann (1821-1906) and his wife Elisabeth Wilhelmine Christine v. Black (* 1820). His brothers were the Russian generals Otto Nikolai von Freymann (1849-1924) and Eduard Karl von Freymann (1855-1920). On February 20, 1880 Nikolai Konstantin married Natalie Grigoyewa (* 1852), she was the daughter of General Michael Grigoyew, the marriage according to the Byzantine rite led to a split within the families, their children were:

  • Boris * February 8, 1881, lost in World War I
  • Sergej von Freymann * April 25, 1882, chess master
  • Constantin * July 29, 1883; † December 21, 1883
  • Olga * August 11, 1884; † October 25, 1899
  • Michael * September 5, 1886; † August 10, 1887
  • Wera * April 29, 1888, musician
  • Nikolai * November 30, 1889; † May 4, 1895

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Chamber Page. In: Adelung - Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect, MDZ- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek [1] , accessed December 13, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Freymann, Nikolai Konstantin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freymann adH Nursie, Nikolai Konstantin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian major general
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1904
Place of death Tashkent