Career

He was a Russian

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

 State Councillor at the Court

Court

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 of Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

 and a Privy Councilor of the Emperor of Russia.

Marriage and children

He married Anna Maria Wöhrmann, and had issue, among whom a daughter Alexandra von Hesse (Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

, 24 October 1834 – Bad Schandau

Bad Schandau

Bad Schandau is a spa town in Germany, in the south of the Free State of Saxony and the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, at the mouth of the little valley of the Kirnitzsch.-Geography:...

, 8 September 1914), married in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

 on 26 November 1856 with Heinrich Moritz Max Freiherr von Beschwitz

Heinrich Moritz Max Freiherr von Beschwitz

Heinrich Moritz Max Freiherr von Beschwitz , Lord of Arnsdorf with Gersdorf and Ottendorf in the Kingdom of Saxony, was a German Military and Nobleman, son of Moritz Wilhelm Wolf Freiherr von Beschwitz and wife Alexandra von Hesse.-Career:He was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber of the King of Saxony,...

 (Krebs

Krebs

Krebs is the German language word for "crab" and "cancer" . It is also a common German surname:- People :* Arthur Constantin Krebs , French officer and pioneer in automotive engineering...

, 10 July 1823 – Schloss Arnsdorf, 31 August 1889), Lord

Lord

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 of the Fideicomis of Arnsdorf

Arnsdorf

Arnsdorf is a municipality in the district of Bautzen, in Saxony, Germany....

 in the Kingdom of Saxony

Kingdom of Saxony

The Kingdom of Saxony , lasting between 1806 and 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. From 1871 it was part of the German Empire. It became a Free state in the era of Weimar Republic in 1918 after the end of World War...

, and had issue.