Prussia

When Frederick the Great rose to power after his abusive and aggressive father, he hoped to extend the Prussian Empire and acted as an Enlightened Absolutist, meaning he embraced ideas of the Enlightenment. Although some regard Frederick the Great as being a greedy military ruler only seeking to increase the power of Prussia, it is evident that he acted as a trailbrazer in the acceptance of new tolerant ideas created during the Enlightenment.

Frederick Williams, known as the Great Elector, had many conflicts with the wealthy class of Prussians, the noble landlords. Frederick Williams did not allow their self interest to get in the way of the interests of Prussia, and took away some of the power and privileges they were used to.

Prussia was the state and former kingdom of Germany. Austria became a vassal state to Prussia. Later on Austria and Prussia become little more than just vassal state.

The village was located in East Prussia, part of Kreis Pillkallen, and renamed in 1938 to Jägerswalde. After WWII it became part of the Soviet Union and was renamed in 1946 to Svobodnoye (Свободное). It's currently part of the Kaliningrad Oblast and probably near what's left of Pillkallen, which is currently called Dobrovol'sk (Добровольск).

That's sort of where the trail runs cold - I couldn't find the original village of Girrehleschken on old maps of East Prussia, and none of the on-line maps have the current Russian name listed, so the odds are that it was destroyed during the last years of WWII.

In case this is for genealogical research, there is a Yahoo group for Pillkallen (in German).

In the 19th century that was Prussia's Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

The War of Austrian Succession, I think.

Yes, Berlin was considered part of Prussia. It became the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia in the 18th century and played a central role in the political and cultural life of the state. Following the unification of Germany in 1871, Berlin continued as the capital of the German Empire, further solidifying its significance within Prussian history.

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Fredrick William the Great Elector was able to build Brandenburg-Prussia into a major power through his army. Fredrick William was elector of Bradenburg-Prussia from 1640 to 1688.

One of the negative impacts that Frederick the Great had on Prussia was the wars that they let them into. Though they did expand Prussia's territory, war is still a negative thing.

Slesvig and Holsten (in German Schleswig-Holstein). From a Danish point of view Holsten was never Danish, but just in a personal union with Denmark via the King, whereas Slesvig had been Danish for a thousand years (although as a duchy from early medieval times). This difference in perception was the root cause of the conflict, since Danish nationalist wanted to integrate Slesvig politically into Denmark and get rid of Holsten, whereas the nationalists on the opposing side wanted Holsten to be unified with the increasingly Germanised Slesvig, where the city population now were mainly German, while the country side remained mainly Danish. The Holsteners were supported by the other German states (with mixed liberal and conservative agendas) and Denmark was politically supported by the very conservative Russian czar, but while the latter could save Denmark in the previsous war of 1848-1850 they could not do that in 1864, where Denmark had broken the agreements from last war.

Most of the military 'build-up' was the work of his father, Frederick William I (reigned 1713-1740). The latter had remained at peace, but Frederick II decided to use the army he had inherited.

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Prussia is not a country anymore(since the end of World War 2), now several different countries are settled where it was. The biggest one is Germany and most of the Prussian citizens resettled there.

Check out the German Gun collectors web site. Your gun was built by Schilling in Shul which is Germany

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East Prussia was part of the German state of Prussia during World War 2. It was actually part of Prussia from 1772 until 1829 and 1878 until 1945.

William I of Prussia was crowned Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles.