Alexander von Güldenstubbe explained

Alexander von Güldenstubbe
Office:Commander of the Moscow Military District
Predecessor:Position established
Successor:Pontus Brevern-de la Gardie
Birth Place:Kaunifer Manor (et), Karmel, Ösel County, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
(in present-day Kaarma, Saare County, Estonia)
Death Date: (aged 83)
Death Place:St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Resting Place:Karmel
(present-day Kaarma, Estonia)
Branch: Imperial Russian Army
Serviceyears:18181884
Commands:1st Brigade, 1st Grenadier Division
Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment
1st Brigade, 1st Guards Infantry Division
1st Grenadier Division
1st Guards Infantry Division
Moscow Military District (1864–1879)
Battles:November Uprising
Crimean War
Signature:Guldenstubbe sig.jpg

Magnus Alexander Ludwig von Güldenstubbe (tr. ;) was a Baltic German general of the Imperial Russian Army and commanded the Moscow Military District from 1864 to 1879. He participated in November Uprising in Poland and the Crimean War.

Biography

Origin

Güldenstubbe was born on (27 December 1800 according to the Julian calendar at use in Russia at the time) in the family estate in Karmel (present-day Kaarma, Estonia), the seventh child of Johann Gustav von Güldenstubbe and Johanna Luise von Ekesparre (de). He was from the Baltic German and Swedish Güldenstubbe family (de), which was originally named Knutzen (or Knutson) and originated from either Holstein or Denmark.

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