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Login Petrovich Geiden (6 September 1773 — 5 October 1850) was a Dutch-born Russian admiral who commanded a squadron of the Imperial Russian Navy in the Battle of Navarino (1827).
Born in Zuidlaren, in the north east of the Netherlands, as Lodewijk Sigismund Gustaaf, Empire Count van Heyden, Lord of Reinestein. He was the second son of Sigismund Pieter Alexander, count van Heiden, lord of Reinestein and Laarwoud, drost of Drenthe, and Marie Frederique baroness Van Reede. Van Heiden is the only Dutch naval hero to have come from the landlocked province of Drenthe.
Count Lodewijk van Heyden married Anne-Marie Akeleye, daughter of captain Johannes Akeleye, a Danish-born sea officer in Russian service. They had four children, including their younger son count Frederick Heyden, the future Governor-General of the Grand Duchy of Finland.[1]
Van Heiden joined the Dutch Navy at the age of nine, and was promoted to Lieutenant-at-sea at sixteen. He made several journeys to the Dutch overseas territories during his six years in active duty. He remained a faithful Orangeist and accompanied stadtholder William V on his flight from Scheveningen to England. Was captured upon his return and locked up in the ill-reputed Gevangenpoort prison in The Hague. He was questioned harshly several times but always refused to give any details on William's passage. He was set free after two months on instigation of the French general Pichegru. Van Heiden resigned his commission and returned to Zuidlaren.
In 1795, Van Heiden, or Geiden, as he became known in Russia, offered his services to the Russian Emperor. He was appointed Captain-Lieutenant at sea at only twenty-two, and quickly rises through the ranks. He operates in the Black Sea until 1803; during that period, he is promoted to Captain at sea 2nd class. He gets married and settles in Estonia, then one of the Russian Baltic provinces.
In 1808, Geiden was promoted to Captain 1st class, and was awarded command of the Russian flotilla in Viapori in the war against Sweden. He defeated the Swedes in the Battle of Kemiö Island and in the Riilahti strait together with Lieutenant-Commander Pyotr Dodt. Afterwards, he was made Squadron commander in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
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