* 1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.

Also featured were Alexander Hanson as Frederik, Ramona Mallory as Anne, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka as Henrik, Leigh Ann Larkin as Petra, Erin Davie as the Countess, Aaron Lazar as the Count, and Bradley Dean as Frid.

** Alexander Hamilton, Count of Neuburg, the Holy Roman Empire's Envoy Extraordinary to the court of James VII and II, had issue:

His father was Count Trasimund of Segni and was a member of a famous house, Conti, which produced nine Popes, including Gregory IX, Alexander IV and Innocent XIII.

Count Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy ( 1770 – 1857 )

Count Peter Alexandrovich ( 1761 – 1844 ) served under Suvorov in wars against Poland and Turkey, was made a general-adjutant in 1797, went as an ambassador to Paris in 1807 and tried to persuade Alexander I to prepare for the war against France, without much success though.

* August 31 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the establishment of the Triple Entente.

* July 30 – Count Joseph Alexander Hübner, Austrian diplomat ( b. 1811 )

* May 18 – Alexander Suvorov, Count of Rymnik ( b. 1729 )

Alexander III made similar provisions when arranging the marriage of his son Alexander to Margaret, daughter of Guy de Dampierre, Count of Flanders, probably also in 1281.

In 1928 Georg, Count von Carlow, morganatic son of Duke George Alexander of Mecklenburg and commoner Natalia Vanljarskaya, became duke of Mecklenburg and heir to his uncle Duke Charles Michael.

Ophir is also referenced in Alexander Dumas's book The Count of Monte Cristo.

Prince Alexander was a nephew of Russia's Tsar Alexander II, who had married a sister of Prince Alexander of Hesse ; his mother, a daughter of Count Moritz von Hauke, had been lady-in-waiting to the Tsaritsa.

Under the patronage of Tsar Alexander I, Count Nikolay Petrovich Rumyantsev and the Russian-American Company, Krusenstern led the first Russian circumnavigation of the world.

* 1988: The Prisoner of Castle If, Soviet miniseries starring Viktor Avilov ( Count of Monte Cristo ) and Aleksei Petrenko ( Abbé Faria ), composer is Alexander Gradsky

The next day ( November 28 ), the French Emperor requested a personal interview with Alexander I and received a visit from the Tsar's most impetuous aide, Count Dolgorouki.

In the same year, Alexander also forced the resignation of his ethnic Venetian / Greek foreign minister, Count Giovanni Capo d ' Istria ( Ioannis Kapodistrias, later president of the First Hellenic Republic ), for his passionate advocacy of the Greek cause.

A Swedish-allied army under general Johan Baner decisively defeated a combined Imperial-Saxon army, led by Count Melchior von Hatzfeld and the Saxon Elector John George I. Baner was helped by Swedish Count Lennart Torstenson and Scottish professional soldiers Alexander Leslie, later first Earl of Leven, James King, later first Lord Eythin, and John Ruthven.

In 1738, he sold his estates of Rydzyna and Leszno to Count ( later Prince ) Alexander Joseph Sułkowski.

** His Royal Highness Prince Vincent Frederik Minik Alexander of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, born on 8 January 2011

** His Highness Prince Nikolai William Alexander Frederik of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, born on 28 August 1999.

Count Feodor Petrovich Tolstoy ( 1783 – 1873 ), sympathetically mentioned by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin, was one of the most fashionable Russian drawers and painters of the 1820s.

* Princess Irina Felixovna Yussupova, ( March 21, 1915, Saint Petersburg, Russia-August 30, 1983, Cormeilles, France ), married Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Sheremetev ( October 28, 1904, Moscow, Russia – February 5, 1979, Paris, France ), son of Count Dmitri Sergeievich Sheremetev and wife Countess Irina Ilarionovna Vorontzova-Dachkova and a descendant of Boris Petrovich Sheremetev ; had issue:

The Battle of Mormans was fought on 17 February 1814 and resulted in the victory of the French under Napoleon Bonaparte against the Russians and Württembergers under Count Petr Petrovich Pahlen.

Count Alexey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin () ( 1 June 1693 – 21 April 1768 ), Grand Chancellor of Russia, was one of the most influential and successful European diplomats of the 18th century.

His jealousy of Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin induced him to participate in Count Lestocq's conspiracy against that statesman.

Kuskov sailed the Brig Chirikov back to present day Bodega Harbour on March 15, 1812, and " Since Bodega Anchorage and Bodega Harbour had not been claimed or named by the Spanish " Kuskov named it Rumyantzev, in honor of the Russian Minister of Commerce, Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumiantzof.

After a failed attempt in 1811, Kuskov sailed the brig Chirikov back to Bodega Bay in March of 1812, naming it the Gulf of Rumyantsev or Rumyantsev Bay (, Zaliv Rumyantseva ) in honor of the Russian Minister of Commerce Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantzev.

Later expeditions to explore the North East Passage took place in the 1760s ( Vasiliy Chichagov ), 1785 – 95 ( Joseph Billings and Gavril Sarychev ), the 1820s and 1830s ( Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, Pyotr Fyodorovich Anjou, Count Fyodor Litke and others ).

Whereas his elder brother Peter Apraksin ( the governor of Astrakhan ) was accused of sympathizing with the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, Fyodor was eager to demonstrate his zeal in persecuting the tsarevich, as did Count Peter Tolstoy, ( 1645 – 1729 ).

Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke.

Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke (), born Friedrich Benjamin Lütke, ( – ) was a Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer.

* Princess Irina Felixovna Yussupova, ( 21 March 1915, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 30 August 1983, Cormeilles, France ), married Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Sheremetev ( 28 October 1904, Moscow, Russia – 5 February 1979, Paris, France ), son of Count Dmitri Sergeievich Sheremetev and wife Countess Irina Ilarionovna Vorontzova-Dachkova and a descendant of Boris Petrovich Sheremetev ; had issue:

Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev (; 3 April 1754 – 3 January 1826 ) was Russia's Foreign Minister and Imperial Chancellor in the run-up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia ( 1808-12 ).

Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy ( English: Francis Maurice de Lacy, Russian: Boris Petrovich Lassi ), ( 21 Oct 1725, St. Petersburg – 24 Nov 1801, Vienna ), was the son of Count Peter von Lacy and a famous Austrian field marshal.

Imperial Count Lodewijk Sigismund Vincent Gustaaf van Heiden (; transliterated Russian name: Login Petrovich Geiden ) ( 6 September 1772 N. S.

** Count Ivan Petrovich Saltykov ( 1730-1805 ), a Russian Field-Marshal

Formally signed by Count Alexander Izvolsky, Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire, and Sir Arthur Nicolson, the British Ambassador to Russia, the British-Russian Convention of 1907 stipulated the following:

Count Alexander Izvolsky

To this end Izvolsky met with the Austrian Foreign Minister, Baron ( later Count ) Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, at the Moravian castle of Buchlov on September 15, 1908, and there agreed to support Austria's ( purported future ) annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in exchange for Austria's assent to the opening of the Straits to Russia ; and to support such an opening, at any subsequent diplomatic conference.

In September 1908, he hosted a secret meeting between Count Lexa von Aehrenthal and the Russian Foreign Minister Izvolsky at his estate at Buchlovice in Moravia.