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Count Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (Russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Берг) (Fyodor Fyodorovich Graf Berg) (1793-1874) was a Russian Field Marshal and Governor-General of Finland from 1855 to 1861. [1] He was born in Sangaste Castle [1] in Sangaste, Livonia (Estonia) into a Baltic German noble family. He studied at the University of Tartu and joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He was also the last Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland (1863-1874). He was crucial in crushing the Polish January Uprising and carrying out repressions and russification policies afterwards.
He was made a count in the Finnish House of Nobility (and thus a Finnish citizen) in 1857, along with his adopted sons, as the 11th Finnish comital family.
[edit] Children
In 1856 Fredrik Wilhelm adopted his brother's two sons:
- Friedrich Georg Magnus von Berg (1845 - 1938), "The count of rye", developer of Estonian agriculture
- Georg Erik Rembert Berg (1849 - 1920), Finnish general in the Imperial Russian Army
[edit] Publications
- Le Feldmaréchal Comte Berg. Namiestnik dans la royaume de Pologne. Notice biographique. Warsaw 1872 - Autobiography
[edit] References
- ^ Governors-general of Finland
