Magnus Gustav von Essen or Ivan Nikolayevich Essen was a Russian lieutenant general of Baltic German origin and the military governor of Riga at the start of the Patriotic War of 1812.
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- September 30, 1759, September 19, 1758
- Died
- August 23, 1813, July 8, 1813