Paul Andreevich Shuvalov (diplomat)

Count Schuwalow ( Franz Xaver Winterhalter , 1860)

Count Pavel (Paul) Andreyevich Shuvalov ( Russian Павел Андреевич Шувалов , scientific. Transliteration Pavel Andre'evič Shuvalov ; born November 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. November  1830 ^greg. In Leipzig , † April 7 ^jul. / 20th April  1908 ^{greg .} in Yalta ) was a Russian military and diplomat.

origin

Pawel Schuwalow was the son of the diplomat and member of the Russian State Council Andrei Petrowitsch Schuwalow (1802-1873) and Thekla Ignatjewna Walentinowitsch (1801-1873) and was born during their vacation in Leipzig . Paul Shuvalov had three siblings: Pyotr Andrejewitsch (1827-1889, member of the Russian State Council), Sofija (1829-1912, married the member of the State Council Alexander Alexejewitsch Bobrinsky) and Olga (1833-1859).

Military career

In 1849 Shuvalov began his military career in the cavalry brigade of the imperial bodyguard and served on the Russian western border during the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1848/1849 . In 1854 he became adjutant to Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Romanov (1831-1891) and took part in the Crimean War. He was awarded medals for his participation in the defense of Sevastopol . In 1859 he was appointed Rittmeister to the Russian military agent at the French War Ministry . Promoted to lieutenant colonel, he accompanied Emperor Napoleon III. during the Sardinian War in 1859. In 1860 he was promoted to colonel for his diplomatic services at the French court.

On July 15, 1861, he became executive director of the General Affairs Department at the Ministry of the Interior and took an active part in the work on peasant liberation in the Russian Empire .

As commander of the 1st Life Guard Rifle Regiment, he participated in the suppression of the Polish uprising in 1863 . In 1864 he was appointed major general and commander of the Semenov bodyguard regiment. In 1867 he became head of the Army Staff of the Saint Petersburg Military District. He was a member of numerous commissions for reforming the Russian army. From 1873 he was lieutenant general.

On August 8, 1877 appointed commander of the Second Guard Infantry Division, he took part in the Russo-Turkish War 1877-1878 .

Diplomatic career

On April 1, 1885, Shuvalov switched to the diplomatic service and was appointed Russian ambassador to Berlin . As an advocate of friendly relations between Russia and Germany, he contributed significantly to the end of the German-Russian customs war of 1893–1894 and to the conclusion of the reinsurance treaty between these two countries in 1887.

Shuvalov supported the head of the Russian embassy church, Archpriest Alexei Malzew , in founding the Brotherhood of Holy Prince Vladimir , a charity that was supposed to take care of Russian citizens in need in Germany and to build Russian churches in various cities in Germany. In his capacity as ambassador, Shuvalov was an ex officio honorary member of the brotherhood and chairman of its general assembly (his successors continued this tradition until the First World War).

On December 13, 1894, Shuvalov became governor general and head of the military district in Warsaw . On May 14, 1896 he became a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire.

Shuvalov died on April 7 (20) 1908 in Yalta and was buried in the Sophienkirche in the village of Wartemjagi near Saint Petersburg .

family

Countess Schuwalow ( Franz Xaver Winterhalter , 1858)

Shuvalov was married to Olga Esperovna Beloselskaja-Belozerskaja (1838-1869), the daughter of a general in the Russian army, for the first time since July 25, 1855.

Since 1877 he was married to the lady-in-waiting Maria Alexandrovna Komarowa, the daughter of a professor.

The first marriage resulted in: Andrei (died in childhood), Elena (1857–1943, lady-in-waiting, married General Theofil von Meyendorff), Pawel (1859–1905, major general, mayor of Odessa and Moscow ), Petr (died in childhood) , Thekla (1863–1939, married Lieutenant General Gustav Stackelberg) and Maria (1865–1951, lady-in-waiting, married Baron K. von Knorring ).

From the second marriage came: Sofija (1877–1917, married Prince GP Volkonskij), Alexander (1881–1935, titular councilor) and Olga (1882–1939, lady-in-waiting, married the lieutenant governor of Kutais , Count WA Olsufjew).

literature

• From the past of orthodox Russian churches in Berlin (Russian). Saint Petersburg 1905.
• For the 15th anniversary of the Brotherhood of St. Prince Vladimir (Russian). Berlin 1906.
• Berlin Brotherhood Yearbook (Russian). Saint Petersburg 1906.
• Diplomatitscheskij slovar '(Diplomatic Lexicon) (Russian). Volume 3. Moscow 1986
• DNSchilow, Ju.A.Kus'min: The members of the Council of State of the Russian Empire 1801–1906: Biobibliographical reference work (Russian). St. Petersburg 2007

Web links

• Article on "rusdiplomats.narod.ru" (Russian) ( Memento from October 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )