Peter von Meyendorff

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Peter von Meyendorff , fully Baron Peter Leonhard Suidigerius of Meyendorff ( Russian Пётр Казимирович Мейендорф , Peter Kasimirowitsch Meyendorf ) (born August 2 . Jul / 13. August  1796 greg. In Riga , † March 7 jul. / 19th March  1863 greg . in St. Petersburg ) was a Russian diplomat.

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Meyendorff came from the Livonian branch of the German-Baltic noble family von Meyendorff and was the son of Baron Kasimir von Meyendorff and his wife Anna Katharina, nee. from Vegesack . Together with his brothers Kasimir (1794–1854) and Georg , he attended the Lycee Impériale in Metz, founded by Napoleon Bonaparte . In 1811 he entered the Military Engineering Institute in St. Petersburg. As a volunteer he took part in the fighting against the French in 1813/14. In 1816 he went to Göttingen University for two semesters . In 1817 he entered the Russian diplomatic service. He worked first in the Foreign Ministry and then in various positions in the Russian embassies in the Netherlands (1820-1824), Spain (1824-1827), in Vienna (1827-1832) and in Stuttgart (1832-1839). In 1839 he became the Russian envoy to the Prussian court in Berlin . From 1850 to 1854 he was ambassador to Vienna. He is considered to be the mediator of the Olomouc punctuation , but came under fire in 1854 in the run-up to the Crimean War and was recalled. In 1857 he was appointed head of his private cabinet by Tsar Alexander II .

Since 1830 he was married to Sophie, b. Countess Buol-Schauenstein (born September 14, 1800 in Hamburg ; † March 19, 1868), daughter of the Austrian diplomat Johann Rudolf von Buol-Schauenstein and sister of Karl Ferdinand von Buol-Schauenstein . Of the couple's sons, Alexander (* 1831) died in the Crimean War near Sevastopol in 1855 , Rudolph (1832–1883) became the Tsar's wing adjuster and Ernst Georg (* 1836 in Stuttgart) became a diplomat and died in 1902 as an envoy in Rome.

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  1. On the family, see Genealogical Handbook of the Livonian Knighthood Volume 1, Görlitz 1919 digital copy, pp. 503-532
  2. NDB
  3. He died in Paris and was probably Herr von Meyendorff , who in 1868 challenged Andreas Fjodorowitsch von Budberg-Bönninghausen to a duel
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