Anrep (noble family)

History

• Barbara Johandotter von Anrep wife of Johann von Uexküll.
• Adolf Heinrich von Anrep was the Landsmarshal of Livland, i.e. the chairman of the assembly of Livonian nobility.
• Heinrich Reinhold von Anrep was a Russian general of cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars. Killed in the Battle of Mohrungen.
• Roman von Anrep , a son of the previous, was a colonel and later a major-general. He commanded a Uhlan regiment in Caucasus during Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 and was a confidant of High Commander, Ivan Paskevich. Describing this campaign in his memoirs The voyage to Arzrum, Aleksandr Pushkin mentions R.R. Anrep. Later, in a letter to his wife, Pushkin referred to the death of R.R. Anrep, who had drowned in a swamp . The reason of the poet's attention to the officer is probably the fact that both of them courted the same young girl, Annette Woolf, in 1826 .
• Joseph Carl von Anrep , a brother of the previous, was a colonel in Russian army, promoted to general shortly before his death. In 1853, by edict of Tzar, he was styled Count von Anrep-Elmpt in order to preserve the title of his wife's father, Count von Elmpt.
• Reinhold von Anrep-Elmpt , a son of the previous, was a Russian explorer, who traveled intensively from 1870 in all five continents and published many volumes of his travel notes.
• Vassily Konstantinovich von Anrep was a professor of forensic medicine and a Russian statesman. He had two sons, named after the first Russian saints, princes Boris and Gleb.
• Boris Anrep was a Russian artist, active mostly in Britain, who devoted himself to the art of mosaics and achieved work of monumental character in many private and public places.
• Gleb Anrep was a physiologist, the follower of Ivan Pavlov, a member of the Royal Society from 1928, professor in University of Cambridge and in Cairo University.