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Soon the Regent replaced Bismarck as envoy in Frankfurt and made him Prussia's ambassador to the Russian Empire.
The Russian presidential special envoy for human rights in Chechnya, Abdul-Khakim Sultygov, said the bloody outcome was " a good lesson to the terrorists and their accomplices.
In 1904, the British invaded Lhasa, a preemptive strike against Russian intrigues and secret meetings between the 13th Dalai Lama's envoy and Tsar Nicholas II.
Another residence was built by the Russian envoy to Vienna, Count Razumovsky.
King Stanisław August Poniatowski was at first inclined to mediate between the Confederates and Russia, the latter represented by the Russian envoy to Warsaw, Prince Nikolai Repnin ; but finding this impossible, he sent a force against them under Grand Hetman Franciszek Ksawery Branicki and two generals against the confederates.
The next year, she sent Count Psaro as an envoy to visit De Rohan in Malta to solidify her relationship with the Knights of Malta, and further Russian influence in the Mediterranean.
Alexandr Griboyedov, the Russian envoy to Persia, stated that by the time Nakhchivan came under Russian rule, only 17 % of its residents were Armenians, while the remainder of the population ( 83 %) were Muslims.
On the 14th day of February arrangements had already been completed, and the British Ambassador in Berlin was able to inform his government that a Prussian military envoy " has concluded a military convention with the Russian Government, according to which the two governments will reciprocally afford facilities to each other for the suppression of the insurrectionary movements which have lately taken place in Poland and Lithuania.
* The Man from St. Petersburg: a Russian anarchist in 1914 Britain nearly succeeds, by assassinating a key envoy of the Tsar, in averting the First World War.
The Russian envoy Dimitri Stuart received instructions to " halt " Kogălniceanu's initiatives, so as not to aggravate the " Eastern Question ".
This came after months of tension between Romania and Russia, generated over the territorial issue and the Russian claim to be representing Romania at Berlin: Kogălniceanu's envoy ( Eraclie Arion ) had even threatened the Russians with a Romanian denunciation of their alliance, and 60, 000 Romanian soldiers were prepared for Budjak's defense.
When Governor-General George Eden ( Lord Auckland ) heard about the arrival of a supposed Russian envoy in Kabul and the possibility that Dost Mohammad might turn to Russia for support, his " politically insane " advisers exaggerated the threat.
According to Chang's book, Russian archives released in 2005 indicate that Mao once told an envoy of Joseph Stalin that his forces had destroyed 30, 000 of Zhang's troops.
In 1837, threatened by a possible Russian invasion of South Asia via the Khyber and Bolān Passes, a British envoy was sent to Kabul to gain support of the Emir, Dost Mohammed.
He speaks English, Urdu, Gujarati, French, German, and Russian and was Pakistan's top envoy to the United States and more than a dozen other countries for more than three decades and earned the distinction as the world's longest-serving ambassador.
The Russian envoy Nikolai Rezanov requested trade exchanges.
Russian envoy to Persia Aleksandr Griboyedov mentioned in his diary a conversation with writer and historian Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, a member of the Russian diplomatic mission at the time, in which the latter told him that Elisabethpol battle was near the Nizami tomb.
Both the Qing government in Beijing and the beleaguered Kulja officials asked the Russians for assistance against the rebellion ( via Russian envoy in Beijing, G. A.
The Russian tsar sent an envoy to meet with the French to hasten the surrender.
Diplomatic relations often bring Juan (" the envoy of a secret Russian mission ") and Lord Henry together, and he befriends Juan and makes him a frequent guest at their London mansion.
The crown is also decorated with one of the seven historic stones of the Russian Diamond Collection: a large precious red spinel weighing 398. 72 carats ( 79. 744 g ), which was brought to Russia by Nicholas Spafary, the Russian envoy to China from 1675 to 1678.

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* 1770 – The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
The British Parliament first guaranteed diplomatic immunity to foreign ambassadors in 1709, after Count Andrey Matveyev, a Russian resident in London, had been subjected to verbal and physical abuse by British bailiffs.
* Count Joseph Cornelius O ’ Rourke, Lieutenant-General of the Russian Imperial Guard.
When he returned to Munich, following Eisner's assassination by an anti-semitic nationalist, Count Arco-Valley, he informed Gasparri-using Schioppa's eye-witness testimony of the chaotic scene at the former royal palace as the trio of Max Levien, Eugen Levine, and Towia Axelrod sought power: " the scene was indescribable the confusion totally chaotic in the midst of all this, a gang of young women, of dubious appearance, Jews like the rest of them hanging around the boss of this female rabble was Levien's mistress, a young Russian woman, a Jew and a divorcée and it was to her that the nunciature was obliged to pay homage in order to proceed Levien is a young man, also Russian and a Jew.
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.
For instance, Count Alexei Konstantinovich ( 1817 – 75 ) was a courtier but also one of the most popular Russian poets of his time.
* April 26 – Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier ( b. 1721 )
* August 25 – Seven Years ' War – Battle of Zorndorf: Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the Oder.
Karol Skowroński, renamed Karel Samuilovich Skavronsky, was created a Count of the Russian Empire on 5 January 1727 and made a Chamberlain of the Imperial Court ; he had married Maria Ivanovna, a Russian woman, by whom he had descendants who became extinct in the male line in 1793.
Fryderyk Skowroński, renamed Feodor Samuilovich Skavronsky, was created a Count of the Russian Empire on 5 January 1727 and was married twice: to N, a Lithuanian woman, and to Ekaterina Rodionovna Saburova, without having children by either of them .< ref >
In an elaborate attempt to escape from Paris to the royalist stronghold of Montmédy planned by Count Axel von Fersen and the baron de Breteuil, some members of the royal family were to pose as the servants of a wealthy Russian baroness.
At the beginning of his captivity, Count Orlov, an emissary of the Emperor, visited Bakunin and told him that the Emperor requested a written confession hoping that the confession would place Bakunin spiritually as well as physically in the power of the Russian state.
Upon arrival, they meet Count Leon d ' Algout ( Melvyn Douglas ), on a mission from the Russian Grand Duchess Swana ( Ina Claire ) who wants to retrieve her jewelry before it is sold.
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.
Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston (; March 23, 1887, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – September 27, 1967, Paris, France ), was best known for participating in the murder of Grigori Rasputin, the faith healer who was said to have influenced decisions of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna.
In the 1920s, Russian expatriates Count Ilya Tolstoy ( son of author Leo Tolstoy ) and George Grebentschikoff founded an artists ' colony at one end of Main Street, known as Churaevka ( or " Russian Village ").
With the Tsar himself present in nominal command ( actual command was in the hands of veteran German-born career-soldier Count Wittgenstein ), a Russian army of 100, 000 men, supported by the Black sea fleet, swept aside the Ottoman forces in the Romanian Principalities, crossed the Danube, and laid siege to Silistra, Varna and Shumla, the key Ottoman-held fortresses in Rumelia ( Bulgaria ).
For the 1829 campaign on the Danube, Tsar Nicholas dismissed the ailing Wittgenstein and handed the Russian command to his more aggressive compatriot, Count von Diebitsch, who succeeded in capturing Silistra and then surprised the Ottomans with a high-speed drive for the Ottoman capital Constantinople ( Istanbul ), bypassing Shumla and routing an Ottoman army sent to intercept him.
The main lineage did not produce long-lasting branches ( except the Russian branch, a few generations ), until the riksmarskalk of Sweden ( High Marshal ), Count Ludvig Douglas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the late 1800s, had several sons and yet more grandsons.
The Manifesto was issued by Emperor Nicholas II, under the influence of Count Sergei Witte, on as a response to the Russian Revolution of 1905.
According to the plan of the German general Karl Ludwig von Phull, the Russian troops under the command of Count Michael Barclay de Tolly had to face the Grande Armée at Vilnius region, the remaining troops under general Pyotr Bagration would launch an attack to the French's southern flank and rear.

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