Samuel Greigh
Samuel Karlovich Greigh ( Russian Самуил Карлович Грейг ; born November 30, 1735 in Inverkeithing , Scotland ; † October 15, 1788 off Tallinn ) was a Russian admiral of Scottish origin. He was the commander of the Russian Navy in the wars with the Ottoman Empire and Sweden .
Life
Samuel Greigh ( English Greig ) hired early in the Royal Navy , in which he soon made it to lieutenant . At the request of Russia , Britain sent some officers into the Russian Navy to modernize the Russian naval forces. Samuel Greigh was one of them. Because of his outstanding qualities, he was quickly promoted to captain there.
He owes his career above all to the successful naval battle of Çeşme (July 5–7, 1770), which he commanded as rear admiral during the Russo-Turkish War 1768–1774 . The sea operations of the Baltic Fleet in the Mediterranean under the direction of Count Alexei Orlow were marked by success, thanks in part to Greigh's skills. Because of his services, Greig was promoted to Admiral and Governor of Kronstadt in July 1770 . He was probably also a lover of the tsarina.
Greigh forced the Swedish fleet to retreat to Suomenlinna on July 17th in the Battle of Hogland during the Russian-Swedish War that broke out in 1788 . In the autumn of the same year he died in the roadstead off Tallinn on his ship Rostislaw of an epidemic that was rampant in the fleet.
In November 1788, because of his Lutheran faith , the deceased was buried in the Tallinn Cathedral at the behest of Tsarina Catherine II . His lavishly designed Carrara marble sarcophagus from 1788–1790 comes from Giacomo Quarenghi (1744–1817) and Giuseppe Luciani . It was financed by the tsarina herself.
Samuels Greigh's son Alexis Greigh (1775-1845) was later Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and founder of the Pulkovo Observatory .
Web links
- Tomb for Samuel Greigh in Tallinn Cathedral
- Tomb of Admiral Greigh in the cathedral church in Reval ( Memento of August 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ( Eduard Körber )
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographies of Samuel Greigh. Retrieved June 7, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ http://totalwar-forum.de/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&postID=8480
- ↑ http://www.merchantshousehotel.com/index.php?main=67
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greigh, Samuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greig, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish admiral in Russian service |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1735 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Inverkeithing , Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1788 |
| Place of death | Tallinn |