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Also Known As Georg Magnus Sprengtporten • Göran Magnus Sprengtporten
Born August 16, 1740 • Finland
Died October 13, 1819 (aged 79) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Title / Office governor-general (1808-1809), Finland
Per Brahe the Younger, detail from an oil painting by an unknown artist; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Per, Count Brahe, the Younger
Swedish statesman
J.M. Sprengtporten
soldier and political conspirator
Vladimir A. Kryuchkov
Soviet politician
Peter I
Peter I
emperor of Russia
Alexander I
Alexander I
emperor of Russia
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Alexander II
Alexander II
emperor of Russia
Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich, Graf Rimniksky, Knyaz Italiysky, Reichsgraf
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov, Count Rimniksky
Russian military officer
alexander nevsky, saint
Saint Alexander Nevsky
prince of Russia
Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov.
Mikhail Kutuzov
Russian military commander
Stenka Razin, detail of an engraving from “A Relation Concerning the Particulars of the Rebellion Lately Raised in Muscovy by Stenka Razin” (London, 1672)
Stenka Razin
Cossack leader
Grigory Potemkin
Grigory Potemkin
Russian statesman
Henri, baron de Jomini
Henri, baron de Jomini
French general and historian
Orlov, Aleksey Fyodorovich, Prince
Aleksey Fyodorovich, Prince Orlov
Russian prince
Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich
Russian military officer
Fyodor Vasilyevich, Count Rostopchin
Russian statesman
Aleksey Andreyevich, Graf Arakcheyev
Aleksey Andreyevich, Graf Arakcheyev
Russian general and statesman
Gorchakov, Prince Mikhail Dmitriyevich
Prince Mikhail Dmitriyevich Gorchakov
Russian statesman
Andrey Mikhaylovich, Prince Kurbsky
Russian military commander
Nikolay Vasilyevich, prince Repnin
Russian statesman