Fabian Steinheil
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Count Fabian Gotthard von Steinheil (1762 - February 23, 1831) (Фаддей Федорович Штвйнгель, Faddei Fjodorovitš Šteingel) was a Baltian German-born soldier of the Russian Empire who was Governor-General of Finland between 1810 and 1824.
Fabian Steinheil was born in Estonia and became a lieutenant in the Russian army in 1782. He took part in the war in Finland in 1788 and in 1791-92 he worked with construction of fortifications in Old Finland, after which he served in military cartography.
He became a Major General in 1789 and took part in the campaigns in Prussia in 1806-07 and Poland in 1805-07. He became a Lieutenant General in 1807 and commanded the Russian troops on Åland in 1809 during the Finnish War.
In 1810 he was appointed as the Governor-General of Finland, to succeed Prince Michael Andrew Barclay de Tolly. He was well regarded by the Finnish population and was made a count in 1812. In 1813 he took part in the war against Napoleon as the commander of an army in Courland and Livonia, and was succeeded as Governor-General by the influential Count Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt. However, due to Armfelt's fragile health, Steinheil soon returned to the post of Governor-General which he held to 1824, being then succeeded by Count Arseni Zakrevski.
He remained in Finland and died in Helsinki 1831.
| Preceded by: Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly |
Governors of Grand Duchy of Finland 1810–1813 |
Succeeded by: Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt |
| Preceded by: Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt |
Governors of Grand Duchy of Finland 1814–1824 |
Succeeded by: Arseni Andreyevich Zakrevski |
| Governors of Grand Duchy of Finland |  |
|---|---|
| Sprengtporten • Barclay de Tolly • Steinheil • Armfelt • Steinheil • Zakrevski • Menshikov • von Berg • Rokassovski • Adlerberg • Heiden • Bobrikov • Obolenski • Gerhard • Boeckmann • Seyn • Stahovich • Nekrasov |
