Friedrich Wilhelm von Bergholz

Friedrich Wilhelm von Bergholz (1699–1765) was a courtier from Holstein.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Bergholz

In 1721 he accompanied Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp on his visit to Russia, staying there with him until 1727.^[1]

In 1953 the article about him in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia was substantially expanded following the fall from power of Lavrentiy Beria^[2]

References

1. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1970–1979.
2. O. Lawrence Burnette Jr. and William Converse Haygood (Eds.), A Soviet View of the American past: An Annotated Translation of the Section on American History in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1964), p. 7. Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine”

Literature

• Elizabeth Clara Sander: Social Dancing in Peter the Great's Russia: Observations by Holstein Nobleman Friedrich Wilhelm von Bergholz, 1721 to 1725, 2007