Burckhard Alexius Constantin von Krüdener

Burckhard Alexius Constantin von Krüdener (Russian: Алексей Иванович Криденер , born September 12, 1746 in Livonia , † June 14, 1802 in Berlin ) was a Russian diplomat .

Life

family

He was a member of the German-Baltic noble family von Krüdener . His parents were the Swedish lieutenant colonel and Livonian district administrator Valentin von Krüdener and Margaretha Dorothea Gertruda von Trautvetter adH Ramkau.

His first wife, an Englishwoman, left him their daughter Sophie. On August 25, 1777 he married Eva Maria Schick again in Neu Peblag , Livonia. Like the first marriage, this relationship ended in divorce. On September 29, 1782 he married Juliane von Vietinghoff in Riga . From this marriage on January 31, 1784 the son Paul Alexander von Krüdener , named after Grand Duke Paul , and in 1787 the daughter Juliette emerged.

Until 1784 Krüdener owned the Livonian estates of Kussen and Lubey.

career

Krüdener first studied in Leipzig in 1764 and then entered the foreign service of the Russian Empire. In 1771 he was a translator, first in Madrid , then in Warsaw . In 1772 he became legation secretary and finally in 1775 legation councilor. In 1779 Krüdener was chosen to be Vice-President of the Judicial College for Liv and Estonian Matters, but was not installed in this position. Instead, he worked as a minister in Mitau from 1779 to 1784 . Catherine II of Russia appointed Krüdener as ambassador in Venice . In 1785 he was appointed envoy to the Bavarian court in Munich , from 1787 to 1794 he worked in the same position at the Danish court in Copenhagen and from 1794 to 1797 again at the Spanish court in Madrid.

When Catherine II died in Saint Petersburg on November 17, 1796 , Grand Duke Paul became Paul I as Tsar of Russia. Krüdener became a real councilor in the year of his accession to the throne. From 1800 until his death he served the Tsar as a Privy Councilor and envoy at the Prussian court of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. in Berlin.

Burckhard Alexius Constantin von Krüdener died in Berlin in 1802 at the age of 55. According to the autobiography of Karl Robert Graf Nesselrode , he died of a stroke while walking on Unter den Linden . Krüdener was buried in the churchyard of the Dorotheenstädtische Church . The tomb was lost when the church and churchyard were leveled in 1965 at the latest.

Trivia

Helena Pawlowna Romanowa , the daughter of Tsar Paul I, attended the Carnival in Berlin with her husband Friedrich Ludwig zu Mecklenburg from January 27 to March 19, 1801. Her birthday was celebrated in the Russian embassy, ​​as the Vossische Zeitung reported on February 19, 1801:

“The festival that the Russian Kaiserl. Envoy, Baron v. Krüdener, on December 12th in honor of the daughter of his monarch, was opened by a quadrille of 12 pairs of dancers dressed in Greek costumes with a character dance ... and was interrupted by matching French choirs. The music for it, by Kapellmeister Righini , was so well received that it had to be repeated towards the end of the ceremony. "

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Burckhard Alexius Constantin von Krüdener. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Robert Graf von Nesselrode: The Russian Chancellor Count Nesselrode autobiography . Printed and published by ES Wittler and Son., Berlin 1866, p. 13 .
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 40–41.
3. ↑ Birgit Anna Bosold: Friederike Liman. Correspondence with Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Karl Gustav von Brinckmann as well as notes from Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Karl August Varnhagen. Dissertation, Hamburg 1996, PDF, p. 56, FN 309-319

predecessor	Office	successor
	Russian envoy to Bavaria 1785–1786	Wilhelm Iwanowitsch von Peterson
Andrei Kirillowitsch Razumovsky	Russian envoy to Denmark 1787–1794	Iwan Karlowitsch von Stackelberg
Maximilian of Alopaeus	Russian envoy to Prussia 1800–1802	Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg