Lodewijk van Heiden

Lodewijk Sigismund Vincent Gustaaf Reichsgraf van Heiden (German: Ludwig Sigismund Vinzent Gustav Reichsgraf van Heyden; Russian: Логгин (Логин) Петрович Гейден, romanized: Loggin (Login) Petrovich Geyden; 6 September 1773 – 17 October 1850) was a Dutch naval officer and Orangist who went into exile from the Batavian Republic and served in the Russian Navy. He ultimately became a Russian admiral and commanded a squadron of the Imperial Russian Navy in the Battle of Navarino (1827).

For people with the same surname, see Heiden.

He was the father of Fyodor Logginovich van Heiden.

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