Frederick Heiden
1821–1900 (age 79)
Biography
Count Fyodor Logginovich Heiden (born Friedrich Moritz Reichsgraf van Heiden; Russian: Фёдор Логгинович Ге́йден, tr. Fëdor Logginovič Géjden; 15 September [O.S. 3] 1821 – 18 January [O.S. 6] 1900), better known as Count Fyodor Logginovich van Heiden, was a Russian military commander of German-Dutch ancestry who served in the Imperial Russian Army. He served as the Governor-General of Finland 1881–1898. Heiden's 17-year office in the Grand Duchy of Finland encompassed the entire reign of Alexander III of Russia, who appointed him at the start of his own reign to succeed Count Nikolay Adlerberg, and the four first years of the reign of Nicholas II of Russia.