Karl von Struve
Karl von Struve ( Russian Кирилл Васильевич Струве ; * July 14th / November 26th, 1835 greg. In Tartu , Livonia Governorate ; † July 8th, 1907 ) was a Baltic German nobleman and Russian diplomat .
Life
Struve's parents were Johanna HF Bartels and Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve . In 1835, when Karl Struve was born, Tsar Nikolaus I asked Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve about the construction of the Pulkowo observatory , which he supervised from 1839 to 1862 as director.
Karl von Struve was a half-brother of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and Bernhard Wassiljewitsch Struve, a tsarist privy councilor and governor of Perm and Astrakhan . Karl von Struve was a great-uncle of Otto von Struve . He married Maria Nikolajewna Annenkowa, daughter of General Nikolaj Annenkow and sister of General Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Annenkow .
From 1873 to 1905 he was successively the Russian envoy in Tokyo , Washington, DC and The Hague . In Washington he lived in a property in Farragut Square, in the neighborhood of Senator Leland Stanford . From 1882 to 1892 he received frequent visits from leading politicians in the United States: Theodore Roosevelt , Henry Adams and James G. Blaine .
Web links
- Biography (PDF; 155 kB; Russian)
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Eugen von Bützow | Russian envoy to Japan 1873 to 1882 |
Mikhail Fyodorovich Bartolomei |
Konstantin Katakasi |
Russian envoy to the United States from 1882 to 1892 |
Grigori Kantakusen |
Pyotr Alexeyevich Capnist |
Russian envoy to the Netherlands from 1892 to 1905 |
Nikolai Tscharikov |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Struve, Karl von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кирилл Васильевич Струве |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1835 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tartu |
DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1907 |