Alexander von Güldenstubbe
# Alexander von Güldenstubbe

Magnus Alexander Ludwig von Güldenstubbe (Russian: Александр Иванович Гильденштуббе, tr. Aleksandr Ivanovich Gilʹdenshtubbe; 7 January [O.S. 27 November 1800] 1801 – 23 April [O.S. 11] 1884) was a Baltic German general of the Imperial Russian Army and commanded the Moscow Military District from 1864 to 1879. He participated in November Uprising in Poland and the Crimean War.

## Biography

### Origin

Güldenstubbe was born on 7 January [O.S. 27 December 1800] 1801 (27 December 1800 according to the Julian calendar at use in Russia at the time) in the family estate in Karmel (present-day Kaarma, Estonia), the seventh child of Johann Gustav von Güldenstubbe and Johanna Luise von Ekesparre (de). He was from the Baltic German and Swedish Güldenstubbe family (de), which was originally named Knutzen (or Knutson) and originated from either Holstein or Denmark.

## Awards

* Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class (1837)
* Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class (1845)
* Order of St. George, 4th class (1847)
* Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st class (1848)
* Order of St. Anna, 1st class (1849)
* Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class (1855)
* Order of the White Eagle (1856)
* Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1863)
* Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class (1872)
* Order of St. Andrew (1875)
