Carl von Breyer

Carl Magnus von Breyer (; in Kuigatsi, Riga Governorate in Reval/Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia) was a Baltic German naval officer and vice admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.

Life Breyer was born at the Kuigatsi relay station, where his father was post commissioner. In 1763 he joined the cadet corps of the Imperial Russian Navy in Saint Petersburg. After being appointed the rank of Michman in 1769, where his ship fought in the first line, as well as in the Battle of Vyborg Bay (1790).

After Russia joined the First Coalition against Revolutionary France, between 1795 and 1796, the St. Helena, still commanded by Breyer, cruised as Rear Admiral Mikhail Kondratievich Makarov's flagship in the North Sea.

In June 1799, shortly after Breyer himself had been promoted to Rear Admiral, he was commanded to equip a naval squadron as troop transports for the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. For this, he was assigned the Azia-class ships of the line Iona, Mikhail, and Panteleimon, the Tsar' Konstantin-class ship of the line Aleksandr Nevskii, the formerly Swedish prize ship of the line Ömheten, which had been captured in 1790, as well as the frigate Rafail from Admiral Pyotr Khanykov's squadron In addition to these, the frigates Venus and Revel, the rowing frigates Konstantin and Nikolai, as well as the transport ships Neptune and Minerva were placed under Breyer's command.

In 1802, he was promoted to the rank of vice admiral and appointed as port commander for Tallinn, a post that he held until his retirement in 1804. He spent the rest of his life in Tallinn.

Honours and awards link=Order of Saint George (Russia) Imperial Russian Order of St. George, IV class (awarded 1785)

link=Order of St. Anna Imperial Russian Order of St. Anna, III class (awarded 1797) link=Order of St. Anna Imperial Russian Order of St. Anna, I class (awarded 1800)