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Wrangel or Wrangell can refer to:
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House of Wrangel, a Baltic German noble family
- Herman Wrangel ( -1643), a Swedish Governor-General of Livonia, Field Marshal, and Privy Councillor
- Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613-1676), a Swedish soldier and Privy Councillor (son of Herman Wrangel)
- Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797-1870), Baltic German admiral and explorer in Russian service, Governor of Russian America
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Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Peter von Wrangel, 1878-1928), a leader of the White Army during the Russian Civil War
- Wrangel's fleet the last squadron of the Imperial Russian Navy, interned in Tunisia - loyal to Pyotr Wrangel
- Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel (1784-1877), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall
Places in Siberia and Alaska named after Ferdinand von Wrangel:
- Wrangel Island, a Russian island in the Arctic Ocean
- Wrangell Island, Alaska
- Wrangell, Alaska, a town on Wrangell Island
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
- Wrangell Narrows
- Wrangell Mountains
- Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Alaska
- Mount Wrangell, Alaska
Usage examples of "wrangel".
This is exactly how he described it to Baron Wrangel, a year or two after he wrote the letter to his brother Mikhail.
Dostoevsky would thus have found confirmation in Carus for his own belief in signs and portents, which Wrangel remarks on with some humor.
This was the situation when Wrangel appeared on the scene in November 1854 to provide Dostoevsky with closer friendship, and more powerful patronage, than any he had been able to acquire so far.
The name of this young man was Baron Alexander Yegorovich Wrangel, and he belonged to one of those Russian-German aristocratic families of Baltic origin which, under Nicholas I, staffed the higher echelons of the bureaucracy and the Army and continued to do so, to a large extent, under Alexander II as well.
Hastily throwing on his overcoat and seizing his hat, Wrangel accompanied his uncle to Semenovsky Square.
Lyceum and dying of boredom in the Ministry of Justice, Wrangel decided to join a number of his classmates in applying for a post in Siberia.
In any case, Wrangel was only too happy to call on Mikhail just before beginning his lengthy journey and to receive from him letters for Feodor Dostoevsky from his family, some clothes, books, and 50 rubles.
Semipalatinsk, Wrangel stopped in Omsk to pay his respects to the Governor-General, F.
Siberian officialdom, Wrangel pursued his journey and arrived in Semipalatinsk on November 20, 1854.
Governor inviting Private Dostoevsky to take tea with Wrangel the very next day.
Dostoevsky so peremptorily put the latter at ease, and he buried himself in the letters that Wrangel had brought, beginning to sob quietly while reading those written by his brother and sister.
Deciding to take matters into his own hands, Wrangel asked the official in question, with whom he had become very friendly, to invite Dostoevsky to his home and judge for himself.
Since all his free moments were now divided between Wrangel and the Isaevs, he tried, without much success, to bring the two together as much as possible.
The climate of Semipalatinsk during the summer months was unbearably hot, and Wrangel decided to escape at the beginning of spring the moment the steppe began to blossom and turn green.
The picture Wrangel gives of their life together has an idyllic quality that Dostoevsky was not to know again for many years.