Vladimir Lamsdorf

Vladimir Nikolayevich, Count Lamsdorf (Russian Владимир Николаевич Ламсдорф / Vladimir Nikolaevich Lamsdorf, born December 25, 1844jul / January 6 1845greg, .. .. † 6 Märzjul / March 19 1907greg in San Remo ) was a Russian diplomat and statesman deutschbaltischer descent. From 1900 to 1906 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire.

Life

Lamsdorf was a graduate of the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum and the Law Faculty of the University of Saint Petersburg, when he entered the diplomatic service of Russia in 1866. He was a member of the Russian delegation at the Congress of Berlin, took part in the negotiations for the Three Emperors' League and was involved in the negotiations for the last time in 1884 in Skierniewice confirmation of the alliance. In 1897 he became deputy foreign minister and 1899 also chief of staff of the exterior, also in 1899, he headed the Russian delegation to the first Hague Peace Conferences.

Lamsdorf was in 1900 Secretary of State, in the early years of his tenure, he focused on the Balkans, although he sympathized with the Slavs in the Balkans, he tried to prevent from strategic considerations to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. During his tenure, however, was also the Russian -Japanese War and the Russian Revolution in 1905. Lamsdorf thanked from 1906.

Name letters

Vladimir Lamsdorf writes in Russian and in German, unlike the German Baltic line of Lambsdorff family without b and with only one f