Bernhard Karl von Koehne

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Baron Bernhard Karl von Köhne (Russian: Бернгард (Борис) Васильевич Кёне; 1817-1887), director of the section for arms in the heraldic department of the Russian senate, and well known numismatist in imperial Russia. After falling out of favour with the scholarly circles in St. Petersburg, he applied for Finnish citizenship in 1859, but it was not granted. Known in Russia under the name of Boris Valisilivich Kene.