Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov

Andrei Yakovlevich Dashkov (Russian: Андрей Яковлевич Дашков; * 1775 in Saint Petersburg, June 21, † 1831) was a Russian ambassador.

Life

From 1786 to 1791 Dashkov was as a sergeant in the Semjonowskoje Life Guards regiment. In 1804 he was hired as a senior assistant in tsarist Ministry of Commerce.

Andrei Yakovlevich Dashkov was the first Ambassador of the Tsar in a reign of James Madison in the United States. 1807, diplomatic relations between the Tsarist Empire and the Government of the United States were included. The seat of government was moved in 1800 from Philadelphia to Washington, the Consulate seat was still Philadelphia in 1808, where Dashkow of Alexander I was sent as a Russian consul general and charge d'affaires. Dashkov was appointed by a Russian-American company honorary representative. As such, he signed the first Russian- American agreement between his company and the Pacific Fur Company of John Jacob Astor.

1817 the Russian Consul General in Philadelphia, Koslow was accused of the rape of a wards and Dashkov replaced by Peter Poletika. He returned to Russia in the run by Karl Robert von Nesselrode Russian Foreign Ministry. From 1820 to 1821 he was a naval attaché in Constantinople Opel. 1826 Dashkov was the State Council.