Lodewijk van Heiden
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Lodewijk Sigismund Vincent Gustaaf Reichsgraf van Heiden was a Dutch naval officer and Orangist who went into exile from the Batavian Republic and served in the Russian Navy. He ultimately became a Ru
Portrait by Johan Joeke Gabriel van Wicheren, c. 1820
Heyden monument in Pylos in commemoration of the Battle of Navarino
Greek stamp issued in 1927 on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Navarino. Van Heiden's malleable name is here given as "Van der Heyden".
Heiden by Egor Bothmann
Batavian Republic
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The Batavian Republic was the successor state to the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. It was proclaimed on 19 January 1795 after the Batavian Revolution and ended on 5 June 1806, with the acc
Lodewijk van Heiden
…romanized: Loggin (Login) Petrovich Geyden; 6 September 1773 – 17 October 1850) was a Dutch naval officer and Orangist who went into exile from the Batavian Republic and served in the Russian Navy. He ultimately became a Russian admiral and commanded a squadron of the Imperial Russian Navy in the Battle of Navarino…
William V of Orange-Nassau
Naval flag and pennants of the Batavian Republic. The canton features the Netherlands Maiden.
Tree of Liberty in Groningen, 1795
First session of the National Assembly in The Hague, from March 1796 to August 1797