Peter von Meyendorff

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

Life and work

Meyendorff was from the Livonian branch of the Baltic German noble family von Meyendorff and was the son of Baron Casimir von Meyendorff and his wife Anna Katharina, born of Vegesack. Together with his brothers Casimir (1794-1854) and Georg, he attended the Lycee Imperiale founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in Metz. In 1811 he entered St. Petersburg in the Military Engineering Institute. As a volunteer, he took 1813/14 in the fighting against the French part. In 1816 he spent two semesters at the University of Göttingen. In 1817 he entered the Russian diplomatic service. He was first in the State Department and then in various positions in the Russian legations in the Netherlands (1820-1824), Spain (1824-1827), in Vienna (1827-1832) and Stuttgart (1832-1839) worked. In 1839 he was Russian ambassador at the Prussian court in Berlin. From 1850 to 1854 he was ambassador in Vienna. He is regarded as an agent of the Olomouc punctuation, but came in 1854 leading up to the Crimean War in the criticism and was recalled. In 1857 he was appointed by Tsar Alexander II.zum head of his private cabinet.

Since 1830, he was married to Sophie, née Countess Buol -looking stone ( born September 14, 1800 Hamburg, † March 19, 1868 ), daughter of the Austrian diplomat Johann Rudolf Buol -looking stone and sister of Karl Ferdinand von Buol -looking stone. Of the sons of the couple fell Alexander (* 1831) in 1855 during the Crimean War in Sevastopol, Rudolph ( 1832-1883 ) was Flügeladjudant of the Tsar and Ernst Georg (* 1836 in Stuttgart) was a diplomat and died in 1902 as an envoy in Rome.