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| | Otto von Kotzebue Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography |
 | | Otto von Kotzebue was born at Revel (Tallin), Estonia, on Dec. 30, 1787. |
 | | He was the second son of the popular German dramatist and supposed agent of Czar Alexander I, August von Kotzebue, whose assassination on March 23, 1819, by the radical Karl Sand occasioned Metternich's reactionary Carlsbad Decrees. |
 | | Kotzebue had by now risen to the rank of post captain in the imperial navy, and he was given a larger ship, the Predpriate, with a complement of 144 men, compared to 20 on the Rurick. |
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