Ludwig von Hagemeister

Ludwig von Hagemeister
2nd Governor of Russian America
In office
11 January 1818 – 24 October 1818
Preceded byAlexander Andreyevich Baranov
Succeeded bySemyon Yanovsky
Personal details
Born16 June [O.S. 5] 1780
Drostenhof, Kreis Wenden, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Died3 January [O.S. 22 December 1833] 1834 (aged 53)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
NationalityBaltic German
Coat of arms of the Hagemeister family of 1692, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882.[1]

Ludwig Karl August von Hagemeister (Russian: Лео́нтий Андриа́нович Гагеме́йстер; Leontij Andrianovic Gagemejster;[2] 16 June [O.S. 5] 1780 – 3 January [O.S. 22 December 1833] 1834) was a Russian naval officer who held the rank of Captain of the 1st rank in the Imperial Russian Navy. He was a maritime explorer of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean, and served briefly in 1817-1818 as the second Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company.

  1. ^ Carl Arvid von Klingspor (1882). Baltisches Wappenbuch. Stockholm. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-543-98710-5. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  2. ^ Baltic, Alix. The Baltic Connection in Russian America. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Neue Folge 42, No. 3 (1994), pp. 321-339.

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