When Maria Margaretha Pabst was born on 18 February 1804, in Kamyshin, Saratov, Russian Empire, her father, Johann Martin Pabst, was 42 and her mother, Anna Catharina Neumann, was 35. She married Johann Peter Riedel on 3 February 1825, in Beideck, Saratov, Russian Empire. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters.
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Napoleon's army occupies Moscow but is then driven out of Russia.
On June 24, 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte led his troops on an invasion in Russia. He crossed the Neman River, invading where present day Poland was established. Russia refused to go against them. In the end it was the harsh winter of Russia that defeated the troops on December 14, 1812.
First Russian railroad, from St. Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo, opens. Aleksandr Pushkin, foremost Russian writer, dies in duel.
German: from Middle High German bābes(t) (modern German Papst) ‘pope’, a nickname for a self-important person, one who believed in the infallibility of his own opinions.
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