Andrei Jakowlewitsch Daschkow
Andrei Jakowlewitsch Daschkow ( Russian Андрей Яковлевич Дашков ; * 1775 in Saint Petersburg ; † June 21, 1831 ) was a Russian diplomat .
Life
From 1786 to 1791 Daschkow was a non-commissioned officer in the Semyonovskoye bodyguard regiment . In 1804 he was hired as a senior assistant in the Tsarist Ministry of Commerce.
Andrei Dashkov was the first ambassador of the Czar in a reign of James Madison in the United States . In 1807 diplomatic relations between the Russian Empire and the US government were established. The seat of government was moved from Philadelphia to Washington in 1800, the consulate seat was still Philadelphia in 1808, where Daschkov was sent by Alexander I as Russian consul general and chargé d'affaires . Daschkov was appointed honorary representative by a Russian-American company. As such, he signed the first Russian-US contract between his company and the Pacific Fur Company of Johann Jakob Astor .
In 1817 the Russian consul general in Philadelphia , Kozlov, was accused of raping a wards and Daschkov was replaced by Pyotr Poletika . He returned to Russia to the Russian Foreign Ministry headed by Karl Robert von Nesselrode . From 1820 to 1821 he was a naval attaché in Constantinople . In 1826 Daschkov became a State Councilor.
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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Ambassador of the Russian Empire to the USA 1808–1817 |
Pyotr Poletika |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Daschkow, Andrei Jakowlewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Дашков, Андрей Яковлевич |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1831 |