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Count Nikolay Vladimirovich Adlerberg 1819 – 1892 Russian Councilor of State, Chamberlain, governor of Taganrog, Simferopol and Finland.

Adlerberg introduced homeopathy to Helsinki in Finland, and he placed Eduard Von Grauvogl in Charge of homeopathy at the Helsingfors Military Hospital, and to lecture on homeopathy at the University of Helsingfors.

Count Adlerberg, the Governor General in Finland, which was then a province of the Russian Empire, offered Eduard Von Grauvogl to settle in Helsingfors in order to deliver lectures on homeopathy at the university and to homeopathically treat in a local military hospital….

Homeopathic treatment in two rooms of the hospital had continued for some 7 months and was interrupted by a sudden illness of the Patron, Count Adlerberg. Eduard Von Grauvogl was personally entrusted by Tsar Alexander II with the treatment of the Count and had to leave the hospital. During the period of 7 months, 81 patients were treated. 52 recovered, 10 were passed to the allopathic unit and 14 remained receiving treatment.

Eduard Von Grauvogl explained: Homeopathic treatment (at the Helsingfors Military Hospital) had continued from January 1, to July 25, 1872, whilst my private practice became large and stretched to St. Petersburg.

The rooms intended for homeopathic treatment, were filling slowly, as especially difficult, mostly incurable, cases were chosen (to be hospitalized in these rooms). No acute cases were put in my rooms, except for those who proved to be in dangerous conditions.

This behavior seemed to me abusive; nevertheless, all my complaints and requests [...] remained unanswered. Nothing resulted not only from my complaints, but also from the orders of the Count [Adlerberg], as the Chief Physician of Helsingfors, an ardent enemy of homeopathy, did all as he wished. Only in Russia is it possible that one behaves contrary to the will of Tsar Alexander II and the persons empowered by him.

Nikolay Adlerberg was born into a Swedish noble family of Adlerberg on May 19, 1819 in Saint Petersburg. His father, Vladimir Fyodorovich Adlerberg was a close friend of Tsar Nicholas I. in 1852-1870 he was President of the Russian Imperial Post Department, who introduced the first Russian post stamps.

Nikolay Adlerberg graduated from the Page Corps of His Majesty in 1837, and in 1838 appointed aide de camp to the Emperor; participated in wars led by Russia in Caucasus (1841-1842) and Hungary in 1849. After the Hungarian campaign he was promoted to the rank of colonel and awarded with golden weapons.

Adlerberg resigned in 1852 and was attached to the Russian Ministry of the Interior, receiving the title of the chamberlain in the court of His Majesty the same. On June 10, 1853, Adlerberg was appointed Governor of Taganrog, but he left the Governor’s office into the hands of general Yegor Tolstoy in spring 1854 due to declared state of war in Taganrog and proximity of Crimean War actions.

In 1855, Nikolay Adlerberg was promoted to the rank of Mayor General and married Amalie Furstin of Lerchenfeld (1808-1888) (in the first marriage Baroness Amalie von Krudener).

Count Adlerberg served as Governor General of Simferopol and Taurida Governorate (1854-1856) during uneasy period of the Crimean War. Later he served at the Imperial Russian Diplomatic Mission in Berlin in 1856-1866. Nikolay Adlerberg was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in 1861 and Infantry General in 1870, and during sixteen years served as Governor General of Finland (1866-1881).

Being a theater enthusiast, he established the Russian Theater in Helsinki in 1868, which was named Alexandre Theater in 1879 after Alexander I of Russia.

On May 22, 1881, the Count was named member of the State Council, but was pensioned off from this post after assassination of his protector, Tsar Alexander II. Nikolay and Amalie Adlerberg moved to Germany, where they settled at Maximilian Lerchenfeld‘s estate in Tegernsee near Munich.

Nikolay Adlerberg died on December 25, 1892 in Munich, Bavaria.

Of interest:

Amalie Adlerberg 1808 – 1888

Amalie was born as an out of wedlock child of Count Maximilian Emmanuel Lerchenfeld (1772-1809) and Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg Strelitz, Princess Consort of Thurn and Taxis.

Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg Strelitz was the aunt of the Russian empress Alexandra Fyodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), wife of Tsar Nicholas I.

The husband of Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg Strelitz, Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis inherited Regensburg, the city of eternal Reichstag (since 1664). Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis was invited by Napoleon Bonaparte for his new projects, and lived in Paris for years.

While Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis was absent, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg Strelitz had a passionate affair with Bavarian diplomat, Count Maximilian Emmanuel Lerchenfeld. The result of this relationship was the baby girl named Amalie born in 1808 in the city of Darmstadt.

After the death of her father, Count Maximilian Emmanuel Lerchenfeld on October 19, 1809, Amalie was in charge of Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg Strelitz‘s relatives von Sternfeld in Darmstadt, and the baby carried their family name after she was born. Later, she was brought to Regensburg, closer to Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg Strelitz and changed her last name to Stargard. She was finally taken care of by the family of Lerchenfeld and lived in their palace in Munich or at the family castle in Köfering near Regensburg.

Finally, on August 1, 1823, the Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse gave the 15 year old Amalie the permission to carry the name of Lerchenfeld, but without rights to use the coat of arms and be listed in the family tree, which was the price for the love affair of her mother.