Nikolai Gagarin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nikolai Gagarin

Russian prince

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1786

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 25-Jul-1842

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Nikolai Gagarin

  • Prince (Knyaz) Nikolai Sergeevich Gagarin (????? ??????? ????????? ???????; July 12, 1784—July 25, 1842) Born in London to the Rurikid Gagarin family, Prince Gagarin was appointed to the Highest command of the 1st infantry during a drawing up of the Moscow military force (July 1812).
  • He took part in the Battle of Borodino, the largest and bloodiest single-day battle of the Napoleonic Wars, involving more than a quarter of a million soldiers.
  • Prince Gagarin also owned several businesses throughout Russia and Europe.
  • In 1819, Prince Gagarin married Maria Alexeeva Bobrinsky (Bobrinkaya), granddaughter of Catherine II of Russia and Prince Gregory Orlov. On October 16, 1833, Gagarin was appointed a post of vice-president of the His Majesty's Cabinet under Emperor Nicholas I and Chairman Viktor Kochubey; in December 1837, he was appointed member of the commission for the restoration of the Winter Palace after a fire.
  • During service as vice-president, he was the recipient of several distinctions: the Order of Saint Stanislaus 1st class (1834), the Order of St.
  • Anna 1st class (1835), the Order of St.
  • Vladimir 2nd class (1839) and the Order of the White Eagle (1841).
  • Prince Gagarin died a violent death by the hand of one of his former subordinates, a forest warden of the Rejnmana estate.
  • Prince Gagarin met the forest warden at Rejnmana, and, after a brief conversation, was fatally shot in the neck.
  • Despite medical aid, the prince died in minutes.
  • Rejnman explained that he killed Gagarin because he had been exposed to oppression and had lost his rank.
  • However, according to his contemporaries' testimonies, Gagarin had been a humane employer.
  • Nikolai Sergeevich Gagarin's descendants were forced into exile during the Russian Revolution and lived in France until recently.
  • Parts of the Gagarin family now live in the United States.

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