Nikolai von der Osten-Sacken

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nikolai von der Osten-Sacken

Nikolai Dmitrievich Graf von der Osten-Sacken ( Russian Николай Дмитриевич Остен-Сакен ; born March 14, jul. / 26. March  1831 greg. In Chernihiv , † May 9 jul. / 22. May  1912 greg. In Monte Carlo ) was a Russian diplomat . He was the Russian ambassador in Berlin from 1895 to 1912 .

Live and act

Nikolai von der Osten-Sacken came from an old German-Baltic noble family. His father, Dmitri von der Osten-Sacken , served as a general in the Russian army.

Osten-Sacken received his first training from private tutors, and later he attended the Armand Richelieu Lyceum in Odessa .

He began his professional career in 1852 as an official in the Russian Foreign Ministry. During the Crimean War (1853-1856) he served at times as an official for special tasks of the commander-in-chief of the Russian army. His father did a great job defending Sevastopol during the war and was given the title of count for it in 1855. Since this also extended to his descendants, his son Nikolai was raised to the rank of count.

Nikolai von der Osten-Sacken was sent abroad for the first time in 1856. Initially, he was a member of the Russian embassies in The Hague , and later he worked in Madrid , Bern and Turin . Shortly before the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, he came to Darmstadt as an envoy , where he stayed for eleven years. This was followed by a transfer as envoy to Munich and finally, from 1895, the climax and conclusion of his career, the post of Russian ambassador for the German Reich in Berlin, where he succeeded Count Paul Andreevich Shuvalov for almost seventeen years, until 1912, worked. In 1910 he was awarded the Order of St. Andrew , the highest order in the Russian Empire. In his capacity as the honorary chairman of the non-profit brotherhood of the holy Prince Vladimir , in connection with the office of ambassador , Osten-Sacken supported the building of Russian Orthodox churches in Germany.

Osten-Sacken 's wife was the princess Maria Ilyinichna Dolgorukova (1822-1908), who was married to the Russian ambassador to Spain, Prince MA Golitsyn. She was considered a patron of the arts, especially music. The Countess, who had once studied with Frédéric Chopin , was a patroness of the composer Seregei Bortkiewicz , the relative of one of her husband's employees.

Web links

Commons : Nikolai von der Osten-Sacken  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VI Fedorčenko: Dvorjanskie Rody, proslavivšie otečestvo. Enciklopedija , Olma-Press 2003
  2. ↑ a b V. I. Fedorčenko: Imperatorskij dom. Vydajuščiesja sanovniki. Enciklopedija , Olma-Press, 2003
  3. ↑ Explanations about the composer S. Bortkiewicz on hyperion-records.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Osten-Sacken, Nikolai von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osten-Sacken, Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Graf von der (full name); Остен-Сакен, Николай Дмитриевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernihiv
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1912
Place of death Monte Carlo