Konstantin Jakowlewitsch Bulgakow

Konstantin Jakowlewitsch Bulgakow (Jean Henri Benner, 1818, Hermitage (Saint Petersburg) )

Konstantin Jakowlewitsch Bulgakow ( Russian Константин Яковлевич Булгаков ; * December 31, 1782 ^July / January 11,  1783 ^greg. In Constantinople ; † November 10 ^July / November 22,  1835 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian diplomat and postal director .

Life

Konstantin Jakowlewitsch was the illegitimate son of the diplomat and Russian extraordinary envoy in Constantinople Yakov Ivanovich Bulgakov and the French woman Ekaterina Ember. In 1790 Konstantin Jakowlewitsch received the family name Bulgakow and the Bulgakov coat of arms together with his older brother Alexander . Konstantin Bulgakow attended the German Petri School in St. Petersburg .

Konstantin Bulgakov was registered for community service as early as 1789, so that in 1797 he entered the Moscow Archives of the College of Foreign Affairs as a Junker . In 1802 he was seconded to the Russian embassy in Vienna . There he won the favor of Prince Alexander Kurakin and Count Andrei Rasumowski , who entrusted him with secret matters. In 1807 he accompanied Pozzo di Borgo on his journey to the Ottoman Empire . 1810–1812 he headed the diplomatic chancellery of the commanders in command of the Moldavian Army Count Nikolai Kamensky and Prince Mikhail Kutuzov during the Russo-Turkish War . On behalf of Admiral Pawel Tschitschagow , Bulgakov achieved the ratification of the Bucharest Peace Treaty by the Ottoman Sultan in Constantinople . In 1812, Bulgakov became engaged to Maria Varlam (1796–1879), daughter of the Wallachian vestier Konstantin Varlam and the princess Euphrosyne Ghica.

In 1813 Bulgakov headed the Grodno governorate and was then with Prince Pyotr Volkonsky and Count Karl Robert von Nesselrode . On the day the Russian troops marched into Paris , Bulgakov was with Alexander I to process the many requests and then went to London with him . He then accompanied Count Nesselrode to Vienna for the Congress of Vienna .

During a short stay at home in 1814, Bulgakov married Maria Varlam, whose family had moved to Moscow. In 1816 he was recalled from his post as ambassador to Denmark at his request and appointed post director in Moscow. He attended to the needs of the postal workers who valued him very much. In 1819 he became postal director in St. Petersburg and in 1826 was appointed a privy councilor (third class ). He improved the postal service, accelerated mail delivery, reduced fees, introduced stagecoaches and set up a city post office. He concluded post-conventions with Prussia and other countries. The emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I as well as the empresses Maria Fyodorovna and Alexandra Fyodorovna expressed their benevolence.

In 1831 Bulgakov became director of the postal department. In 1832 he set up a shipping service between St. Petersburg and Lübeck . In 1832 Maria Bulgakowa was accepted into the Order of St. Catherine . In September 1835, Buldakov suffered a stroke . Prince Alexander Golitsyn reported to the emperor that the doctors drained Bulgakov three pounds of blood and put on Lema leaf beetles . The second stroke in October resulted in death. Bulgakov was buried in the Holy Spirit Church of the St. Petersburg Alexander Nevsky Monastery . He left behind his wife, a son and four daughters.

Honors

• Order of St. Vladimir II Class (1821)
• Imperial-Royal Order of the White Eagle (1832)

Web links

Commons : Konstantin Bulgakow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ А. А. Плюшар, NI Gretsch : Энциклопедический лексикон, Т.  12 . St. Petersburg 1838, p. 479-480 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Русский биографический словарь, Т.  3 . St. Petersburg 1908, p. 460-465 .
3. ^ ^{A b c} Ian W. Roberts: 19th Century Russian Postal Ministers and Officials . In: Journal of the Rossica Society of Russian Philately . No. 108 , 1986, pp. 75-78 ( [1] accessed July 27, 2017).