Felix von Meyendorff

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The expulsion of the Russian envoy Felix von Meyendorff by Pope Pius IX.

Felix von Meyendorff , fully Baron Friedrich Adeldagus Felix von Meyendorff Russian Феликс Казимирович Мейендорф , Feliks Kasimirowitsch Meiendorf (born January 12 . Jul / 24. January  1834 greg. In Mitau , † 4. January 1871 in Stuttgart ) was a Russian diplomat and landowner on Klein-Roop (today Mazstraupe, Latvia ).

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Meyendorff came from the Baltic German noble family of von Meyendorff and was the son of Baron Casimir of Meyendorff (* 1794, † 1854) and his wife Eulalie, born Lepreux (* 1802; † 1890). Peter von Meyendorff was his uncle.

He attended St. Petri School in St. Petersburg and entered the Russian diplomatic service. His first post abroad was legation secretary at the embassy in Berlin. From 1858 he worked in the same capacity at the embassy in Stuttgart. In 1862, after a trip to Egypt, he became legation counselor in Rome and from 1864 was chargé d' affaires . At the papal New Year's reception in 1866, there was a violent scene between Pope Pius IX because of the treatment of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . and Meyendorff. As a result, diplomatic relations were broken off on February 9, and Meyendorff left Rome on March 13.

From 1867 he was envoy in Weimar . In 1870 he became envoy in Karlsruhe , but died in January 1871.

Since 1857 he was married to Olga Princess Gorchakov (* 1838, † 1926), a daughter of Prince Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Gorchakov . The couple had four sons, Peter (* 1858 in Stuttgart, † 1918 in Copenhagen), Michael (* 1861 in Stuttgart, † 1941 in Copenhagen), Clemens (* 1863 in Rome, † 1885 by suicide in St. Petersburg) and the later Duma vice-president Alexander von Meyendorff (* 1869 in Baden-Baden , † 1964 in London ). The Meyendorffs had known Franz Liszt since 1863 and had become friends with him during the Weimar period. After the death of her husband, Olga von Meyendorff moved with the children to Weimar. Her friendship with Liszt deepened.

literature

  • Edward N. Waters (hrg): The letters of Franz Liszt to Olga von Meyendorff. Dumbarton Oaks 1979
  • Hans Rudolf Jung: Liszt and the Meyendorff family. In: Alan Walker, Michael Saffle, James Andrew Deaville (ed.): New light on Liszt and his music: essays in honor of Alan Walker's 65th birthday. (Analecta Lisztiana 2; Franz Liszt studies series 6) Pendragon Press 1997, ISBN 978-0-945193-73-9 , pp. 53-74.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the family, see Genealogical Handbook of the Livonian Knighthood Volume 1, Görlitz 1919 digital copy, pp. 503-532
  2. ↑ According to Jung (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Meyendorff, Felix von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyendorff, Baron Friedrich Adeldagus Felix (full name); Meiendorf, Feliks Kasimirowitsch; Мейендорф, Феликс Казимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat and landlord on Klein-Roop (today Mazstraupe, Latvia)
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitau
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1871
Place of death Stuttgart