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Frederick Augustus I, Duke of Oldenburg
Frederick Augustus of Holstein-Gottorp was prince-bishop of Lübeck and a kinsman of the Russian imperial family. Under the exchange agreed in the Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo, Grand Duke Paul of Russia passed the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst to him in 1773, and the emperor raised them to a duchy in 1774. He was the first duke of Oldenburg, whose dynasty ruled it until 1918.
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