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And if you look at the people behind those names, you'll find that most of them were either born in the Russian Empire or moved there at a young age. https://e
by vitus 1y ago
And if you look at the people behind those names, you'll find that most of them were either born in the Russian Empire or moved there at a young age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Andreas_Barclay_de_Tolly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Andreas_Barclay_de_Tol... - moved to St Petersburg around the age of 3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Bagration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Bagration - born in Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wittgenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wittgenstein - born near Kyiv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ivanovich_Ostermann-Tolstoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ivanovich_Ostermann-... - part of Russian nobility; the Ostermann name came from his great-uncles.