Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Vasily Yakovlevich Struve) (April 15, 1793 – November 23, 1864 (Julian calendar: November 11)) was a Baltic-German astronomer from a famous dynasty of astronomers.

Family

In 1815 he married Emilie Wall (1796 – 1834) in Altona, who bore 12 children, 8 of which survived early childhood. In addition to Otto Wilhelm von Struve, other children were Heinrich or Genrikh Vasilyevich (1822 – 1908), a prominent chemist, and Bernhard Vasilyevich (1827 – 1889), who served as a government official in Siberia and later as governor of Astrakhan and Perm.

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1815 - 1796 - 1834 - Otto Wilhelm von Struve - 1822 - 1908 - 1827 - 1889 - Astrakhan - Perm

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After his first wife died, he remarried to Johanna Henriette Francisca Bartels (1807 – 1867), who bore him six more children. The most well-known was Karl or Kirill Vasil'evich (1835 – 1907), who served successively as Russian ambassador to Japan, the United States, and the Netherlands.

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1807 - 1867 - 1835 - 1907 - Japan - United States - Netherlands

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Bernhard's son Pyotr Berngardovich Struve (1870-1944) is probably the best known member of the family in Russia. He was one of the first Russian marxists and penned the Manifesto of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party upon its creation in 1898. Even before the party split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, Struve left it for the Constitutional Democratic party, which promoted ideas of liberalism. He represented this party at all the pre-revolutionary State Dumas. After the Russian Revolution, he published several striking articles on its causes and joined the White movement. In the governments of Pyotr Wrangel and Denikin he was one of the ministers. During the following three decades, he lived in Paris, while his children were prominent in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

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Marxist - Manifesto - Russian Social Democratic Labour Party - 1898 - Bolsheviks - Mensheviks - Constitutional Democratic party - Liberalism - State Duma - Russian Revolution - White movement - Pyotr Wrangel - Denikin - Paris - Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

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Pyotr's son Gleb Struve (1898-1985) was one of the most remarkable Russian critics of the 20th century. He worked at the California University and befriended Vladimir Nabokov since the 1920s. Pyotr's grandson Nikita Struve (born in 1931) is a high-profile figure who edits several Russian-language periodicals abroad.

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California University - Vladimir Nabokov

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