Karl von Struve

Karl von Struve (Russian Кирилл Васильевич Струве; * 1835 Tartu, † 1907) was a Russian ambassador.

Life

His parents were Johanna Bartels and HF Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve. 1835, when Karl Struve was born, asked Tsar Nicholas I. Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, the construction of the Pulkovo Observatory in which the latter monitored as Head from 1839 to 1862.

Karl von Struve was a half-brother of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and by Bernhard Vasilyevitch Struve, a tsarist privy councilor and governor of Perm and Astrakhan. Karl von Struve was a great-uncle of Otto Struve.

He married Maria Nikolaevna Annenkova, daughter of General Nikolai Annenkov and sister of General Mikhail Nikolayevich Annenkov.

Your residence in Washington, D.C. was in Farragut Square, in the vicinity of Senator Leland Stanford. From 1882 to 1892 he had rain visit from the power elite of the United States: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Adams and James Gillespie Blaine.