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    Polish protectorate. The Russian governor-general of Riga Ivan Essen was expecting attack, and set the wooden houses of Riga suburbs on fire to deflect the...
    131 KB (15,223 words) - 10:43, 15 August 2024
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    Anikita Repnin (category Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland))
    in Riga) was a prominent Russian general during the Great Northern War who superintended the taking of Riga in 1710 and served as the Governor of Livonia...
    4 KB (258 words) - 02:05, 9 August 2024
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    In 1770 and 1774, Eva Kunze complained to the Governor-General of Riga about the counterfeit production of Kunze's balsam and requested that others are...
    16 KB (1,740 words) - 19:59, 10 June 2024
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    Gustaf Adolf Lewenhaupt (category Governors-General of Sweden)
    was appointed Major General in 1645, Privy Councilor in 1650, General in 1651, Field Marshal, in 1655 and Governor General of Riga, in 1656. In the Thirty...
    4 KB (466 words) - 16:37, 23 June 2024
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    Axel Oxenstierna (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
    Oxenstierna to accompany him to Livonia and appointed him Governor-General and commandant of Riga, a strategically important town during the ongoing war...
    37 KB (3,706 words) - 15:50, 16 June 2024
  • The governor-general of the Baltic provinces or governor-general of Estonia, Livonia, and Courland (Russian: Генерал-губернатор Прибалтийского края) was...
    3 KB (206 words) - 02:41, 13 June 2022
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    Duffy. His grandson Alexander Arkadievich (1804–1882) served as Governor General of Riga in 1848–61 and Saint Petersburg in 1861–66. Suvorov's daughter...
    197 KB (19,724 words) - 03:08, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, Riga
    Nativity of Christ Cathedral (Latvian: Kristus Piedzimšanas pareizticīgo katedrāle, Russian: Христорождественский кафедральный собор), Riga, Latvia was...
    4 KB (311 words) - 17:35, 20 December 2023
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    by Prussian General Julius von Grawert, who approached Riga, defeated the forces of General Friedrich von Löwis of Menar. Governor-General Magnus Gustav...
    28 KB (1,712 words) - 20:08, 8 July 2024
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    Rigas Feraios (Greek: Ρήγας Φεραίος pronounced [ˈriɣas fɛˈrɛɔs], sometimes Rhegas Pheraeos; Aromanian: Riga Fereu) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής pronounced...
    23 KB (2,273 words) - 23:11, 14 August 2024
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    administrative centre of the governorate was the Baltic Sea port of Riga. It roughly corresponded to most of the modern Vidzeme Region of Latvia and southern...
    48 KB (5,237 words) - 16:07, 2 August 2024
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    Riga City Council (Latvian: Rīgas dome) is the government of the city of Riga, the capital of Latvia. Its meeting place is in the Riga Town Hall (Rīgas...
    33 KB (2,810 words) - 01:32, 15 June 2024
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    Riga Castle (Latvian: Rīgas pils) is a castle on the banks of River Daugava in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The castle was founded in 1330. Its structure...
    12 KB (1,160 words) - 21:45, 2 January 2024
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    Baltic governorates (category Governorates-General of the Russian Empire)
    In the period of the so-called Regency, 1783–1796, the Regent's (later Governor-General's) Office in Riga was created. It consisted of two subdivisions...
    12 KB (991 words) - 02:34, 18 March 2024
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    Riga Central Station (Latvian: Rīgas Centrālā stacijа) is the main railway station in Riga, Latvia. It is known as the main point of Riga due to its central...
    10 KB (930 words) - 02:37, 30 July 2024
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    Alexander Bekleshov (category Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class)
    governorships: Riga, Oryol and Kursk, Kiev, Podolsk and Little Russian. In 1804–1806, he actually held the post of Moscow GovernorGeneral (official name:...
    16 KB (1,941 words) - 17:15, 8 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Angela Rigas
    Angela Rigas is an American politician from Michigan. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in the...
    13 KB (1,110 words) - 20:58, 19 June 2024
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    Baltische Landeswehr (category Estonian War of Independence)
    regiment, led by Ernst Põdder. On the morning of June 23, the Germans began a general retreat toward Riga. The Allies again insisted that the Germans withdraw...
    16 KB (1,480 words) - 20:04, 8 July 2024
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    Magnus Gustav von Essen (category Imperial Russian Army generals)
    8] 1813) was a Baltic German lieutenant general and military governor of Riga at the start of the Patriotic War of 1812. From the Essen family in Estonia...
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  • nominee for Governor of West Virginia in 2024 Liz Murrill, Attorney General of Louisiana (2024–present) Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas (2015–present)...
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