Vitus Bering

Vitus Bering

male, deceased (1741)
Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, "Behring") (August 1681-December 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian...
Augustus Ii The Strong

Augustus Ii The Strong

male, deceased (1733)
Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (b. Dresden, 12 May 1670 – d. Warsaw, 1 February 1733) was as Frederick Augustus I the El...
Adolf Frederick Of Sweden

Adolf Frederick Of Sweden

male, deceased (1771)
Adolf Frederick (May 14, 1710 - February 12, 1771) was King of Sweden from 1751 until his death. His father was Christian Augustus (1673—­1726) duk...
Georg Wilhelm Richmann

Georg Wilhelm Richmann

male, deceased (1753)
Georg Wilhelm Richmann (July 22 1711 (old style: July 11 1711) - August 6 1753 (old style: July 26 1753)) was a German physicist in Russia. He was...
Pehr Kalm

Pehr Kalm

male, deceased (1779)
Pehr Kalm (March 6 1716 - November 16 1779) (in Finland also known as Pietari Kalm and in some English-language translations as Peter Kalm) was a...
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt

Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt

male, deceased (1719)
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (April 1659 - February 12, 1719) was a Swedish general. Educated at Lund University and Uppsala, he originally pursued a...

Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld

male, deceased (1722)
Count Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld was a Swedish Field Marshal under the command of King Charles XII of Sweden. Despite being choleric and irritable, R...
Boris Sheremetev

Boris Sheremetev

male, deceased (1719)
Boris Petrovich Sheremetev was a Russian count (1706), military leader and diplomat, and a general-field marshal during the Great Northern War. In...
Carl Gustaf Armfeldt

Carl Gustaf Armfeldt

male, deceased (1736)
"Friherre" Carl Gustaf Armfeldt, was a Swedish officer who took part in the Great Northern War. He was born in Ingria to lieutenant colonel Gustaf...
Peder Tordenskjold

Peder Tordenskjold

male, deceased (1720)
Peter Wessel Tordenskjold, also known as "Peter Wessel", "Peder Tordenskjold", or "Peter Tordenskiold", (October 28 1691-20 November 1720), was an...