Ernst Gideon von Laudon, since 1759 Freiherr von Laudon, was a Baltic German-born Austrian military officer and one of the most successful opponents of the Prussian king Frederick the Great.
Ernst Gideon von Laudon
Ernst Gideon's wife: Klara von Hagen
Laudon in victory pose at the Battle of Kunersdorf, 1878 portrait by Siegmund L'Allemand
Marble bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi
Burkhard Christoph von Münnich
Burkhard Christoph Graf von Münnich was a German-born army officer who became a field marshal and political figure in the Russian Empire. He carried out major reforms in the Russian Army and founded several elite military formations during the reign of Empress Anna of Russia. As a statesman, he is regarded as the founder of Russian philhellenism. Like his father, Münnich was an engineer and a specialist in hydrotechnology. He had the rank of count of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
Burkhard Christoph von Münnich
Coat of arms of the counts of the Münnich family [de] of 1728, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882.
Bust of Count Münnich in Walhalla memorial.