Nikolai Dmitrievich Kisselev

Nikolai Kisseljow
(photograph around 1850)

Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Kisseljow ( Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Киселёв ; born April 24, 1802 in Moscow , † November 26, 1869 in Rome ) was a high-ranking Russian diplomat.

Life

His older brother was the Russian general Pawel Dmitrijewitsch Kisselev . Even under Tsar Alexander I , he entered the foreign service in 1824. Under Tsar Nikolaus I. Kisseljow a. a. Sent on a mission to Persia in 1826 and appointed Secretary of the Embassy in Paris in 1829 . Assigned to the embassy in London in an advisory capacity from 1837 to 1840 , he received the rank of chargé d'affaires. 1840 back in Paris, he took over in the absence of Ambassador Peter von der Pahlen in 1841 the management of the Paris Mission, accredited as charge d'affaires to the government of Louis-Philippe I in 1851 took von der Pahlen his departure, and Kiselyov took over the ambassador chair. The strained relations between Alexander II and Napoleon III. before the Crimean War , however, forced him to leave France in 1854.

Nikolai Kisseljow was the Russian ambassador to Pope Pius IX from 1856 . in Rome , then from 1869 at the royal Italian court of Victor Emanuel II in Florence (the then capital of Italy). He remained in this office until the end of his life.

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Kisseljow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Erik Amburger , History of the Organization of Authorities in Russia from Peter the Great up to 1917 . P. 450
2. ↑ Erik Amburger , p. 458

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter von der Pahlen	Russian ambassador to France 1851–1854	Pawel Dmitrijewitsch Kisseljow (from 1856)
	Russian ambassador to the Holy See 1856–1864
Ernst Johann von Stackelberg	Russian ambassador to Italy 1864–1869	Karl von Uexküll-Gyllenband