General Fyodor Berg. Governor of the Kingdom of Poland. Dimensions 102 x 63 mm. Signed photograph from the Maximilian Fajans factory l. 1860s.
FyodorFyodorovich Berg /originally Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (1794- 1874), Count of the Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian quartermaster general. From 1865 a field marshal. A surveyor, he took part in the war with Poland in 1831, commanding the assault on Warsaw during the assault in the direction of Wola. Promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, he performed the duties of quartermaster of the army stationed in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1853 he commanded troops in Estonia. From 1855 governor general of Finland. In 1863-1874 the last governor of the Kingdom of Poland. He officiated at the Royal Castle. Chairman of the Council of State of the Congress Kingdom. He suppressed the January Uprising, pursued a policy of russification of Poland. On September 19, 1863, insurgents made an unsuccessful attempt on the governor, throwing a bomb from the window of the Zamoyski Palace in Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw. In retaliation, the Russians demolished the palace building, throwing onto the pavement, among other things, a Frederic Chopin piano located in the apartment of the composer's sister Izabela Barcińska. This fact inspired Cyprian Kamil Norwid to write the poem Chopin' s Piano.
