Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel (, Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel; – ) was a Baltic German explorer and seaman in Russian service, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, a founder of the Russian Geographic Society. He is best known as chief manager of the Russian-American Company, in fact governor of the Russian settlements in present day Alaska. In English texts, Wrangel is sometimes spelled Vrangel, a transliteration from Russian, which more closely represents its pronunciation in German, or Wrangell.
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| - Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel (, Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel; – ) was a Baltic German explorer and seaman in Russian service, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, a founder of the Russian Geographic Society. He is best known as chief manager of the Russian-American Company, in fact governor of the Russian settlements in present day Alaska. In English texts, Wrangel is sometimes spelled Vrangel, a transliteration from Russian, which more closely represents its pronunciation in German, or Wrangell.
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| - Dorpat, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
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| - Elisabeth Teodora Natalia Karolina de Rossillon
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| - Admiral Ferdinand Wrangel
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| - Pskov, Governorate of Pskov, Russian Empire
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| - Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel (, Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel; – ) was a Baltic German explorer and seaman in Russian service, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, a founder of the Russian Geographic Society. He is best known as chief manager of the Russian-American Company, in fact governor of the Russian settlements in present day Alaska. In English texts, Wrangel is sometimes spelled Vrangel, a transliteration from Russian, which more closely represents its pronunciation in German, or Wrangell.
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