The family originates from
Anreppen, a village on
Lippe river in
Westfalia,
Germany (now a part of
Delbrück town). In 15th century Anreps, belonging to the
Teutonic Knights, settled in
Livonia. In 1626, during the
Thirty Years' War, this country became a
dominion of Sweden. Anrep family was soon naturalized in Sweden and introduced to the
Riddarhuset, or
House of Knights, in 1635. According to
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, German von Anrep was a
Field Marshal in Sweden in the 16th century, and some Anreps were later also on French and Prussian military service By 1710, in the
Great Northern War between
Peter I of Russia and
Charles XII of Sweden, Frederick Wilhelm I von Anrep, a captain in the Swedish army, had been taken to
Moscow as a prisoner. From that time his branch of the family remained in Russia, serving the
Tsars, generally in military or naval posts. Russian Anreps retained the
Lutheran religion of their ancestors. •
Barbara Johandotter von Anrep (born 1534 - died ?) wife of Johann von Uexküll (1532 - 1563). •
Adolf Heinrich von Anrep (1717 - 1765) was the Landsmarshal of
Livland, i.e. the chairman of the assembly of Livonian nobility. •
Heinrich Reinhold von Anrep (ru:
Roman Karlovich von Anrep) (1760 – January 25, 1807) was a Russian general of cavalry during the
Napoleonic Wars. Killed in the
Battle of Mohrungen. •
Roman von Anrep (ru:
Roman Romanovich von Anrep) (died 1830), 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 [http://www.rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/10letters/1831_37/01text/1833/1711_523.htm. 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 (ru:
Iosif Romanovich von Anrep) (1796 – 1860), 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 (ru:
Roman Iosifovich von Anrep-Elmpt) (1834 – 1888), 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 (1852 – 1927) 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 (Boris Vassilievich von Anrep, 1883 – 1969) 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 (Gleb Vassilievich von Anrep; September 10, 1889 – January 9, 1955) 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. == Sources ==