Rapidly advancing, armored corps Gotha pursued the retreating Soviet troops,
they were surrounded and destroyed before they reached the Seversky Donets.
In 1866, it became the home of Queen Victoria's second son Alfred,
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, also Duke of Edinburgh, until his death in 1900.
The organization had its attraction for literary
men, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder, and even for the reigning dukes of Gotha and Weimar.