Count Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (Fyodor Fyodorovich Graf Berg) (1793–1874) was a Russian Field Marshal, and the Governor-General of Finland

Governor-General of Finland

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 from 1855 to 1861.
He was born in the Sangaste

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 Castle, Livonia (Present-day Valga County

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, Estonia

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) into a Baltic German noble

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 family. He studied at the University of Dorpat

University of Tartu

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 and joined the Imperial Russian Army

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 in 1812.

He was also the last Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland (1863–1874). He was crucial in crushing the Polish January Uprising

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 and carrying out repressions

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 and russification

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 policies afterwards. Polish insurgents carried out an unsuccessful assassination attempt on him on 19 September 1863.

He was made a count in the Finnish House of Nobility (and thus a Finnish citizen) in 1857, along with his adopted sons, as the 11th Finnish comital family.

Children

In 1856 Fredrik Wilhelm adopted his brother's two sons:

• Friedrich Georg Magnus von Berg (1845–1938), "The count of rye", developer of Estonian agriculture
• Georg Erik Rembert Berg (1849–1920), Finnish general in the Imperial Russian Army
  Imperial Russian Army
  The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...
  
  

Publications

• Le feldmaréchal-comte Berg, namiestnik dans le royaume de Pologne. Notice biographique. Warsaw
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   1872 – Autobiography
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