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Evgeny Egoriev
Evgeny Romanovich Egoriev (1854–1905) was a Russian Captain 1st Rank and war hero of the Russo-Japanese War. He commanded the famed ''Russian cruiser Aurora, Aurora'' during the Battle of Tsushima and despite the ship surviving the battle, he was killed along with 14 other crewmen. Origin Evengy was born on September 24, 1854, at Reval, the son of Roman Petrovich Egoriev and Amalia Karlovna Maker, who was a Lutheran. He was baptized at the St. Mary's Cathedral, Tallinn, St. Mary's Cathedral, one of the oldest cathedrals in the city. Military career Egoriev enrolled in the Naval Cadet Corps (Russia), Naval Cadet Corps on September 16, 1870, and graduated on March 31, 1874, as a Gardes de la Marine. He was first assigned to the 6th Naval Crew on April 12 and was later promoted to Michman on August 30, 1875, but was suddenly transferred to the Siberian Flotilla on August 25, 1876. Within the flotilla, he was made part of the crew of the 2nd rank cruiser Abrek on September 1, 1876 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reval
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last "pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianity fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
