Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo

Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Count ( born March 8, 1764 in Alata, † February 15, 1842 in Paris) was a Corsican politician and Russian diplomat.

Life

Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo was born 1764 in Alata on the island of Corsica. He came from an impoverished Corsican noble family which was at enmity with the Corsican Bonaparte family. He studied law and became a lawyer and procurator general in Corsica.

In 1791 he was elected to represent the city of Ajaccio because of its revolutionary sentiments in the French Legislative Assembly as a deputy. But he soon returned to Corsica and joined the guided there by Pascal Paoli independence movement. He was from 1794 to 1796 member of the Corsican State Council. After the failure of efforts to Corsican independence he went as a fierce opponent of Bonaparte to England, where he performed under the French emigrants against the French Republic and also in Germany and Italy as an agent for the exiled French worked. In 1802 he joined then as a State in the Russian service.

After the peace of Tilsit he left the Russian service because of france friendly attitude of the Tsar and went traveling. After Austria in 1808 and 1809 served with his advice, he went back to Constantinople Opel, Syria and Malta to England, where he found favorable conditions for his hatred of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1812 he returned to Russia and promoted there the realization of the connection between the Czar Alexander and the British. He leaned it from any reconciliation with France and Napoleon's operation after the outbreak of war vigorously the advance of the allied armies on Paris and the restoration of the Bourbons. After Napoleon's defeat, he was from 1814-1835 Russian ambassador to Paris, participated in the Congress of Vienna and joined after the escape of Napoleon from Elba and his return to France as commissioner of the Tsar of the Anglo- Prussian army. He participated in the Battle of Waterloo, where he was wounded.

As ambassador to Paris returned, offered him King Louis XVIII. the Home Office and a peerage, but what he rejected the request of the Tsar. 1817 Tsar Alexander I appointed him to lieutenant general. He took great influence as Russian ambassador to all business carried out between the major European powers important negotiations and successfully lobbied for the recognition of King Louis -Philippe I. after the July Revolution in France. Already on September 7, 1832 it was the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. awarded the Black Eagle. In 1835 he Change servicekit to the post of Russian ambassador in London, where he took effect on the balance of the dispute between the Netherlands and the newly formed Kingdom of Belgium.

Itemization

Source

  • Picture Conversations -Lexikon for the German people, third volume, page 551, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1839
  • Politicians (France)
  • Politicians (19th Century )
  • Politicians (18th century)
  • Russian diplomat
  • Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
  • Support of the Guelph - Order
  • Carrier of k.u. St. Stephen's Order
  • Support of the Red Eagle Order 1st Class
  • Carrier of the Black Eagle
  • Of the Order of Saint Anne
  • Of the Order of St. Vladimir
  • Of the Order of hl. Mauritius and Lazarus
  • Carrier of the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint- Louis ( commander )
  • Carrier of the Tower and Sword Order
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1764
  • Died in 1842
  • Man
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