Alexander Yakovlevich Bulgakov (russian: Александр Яковлевич Булгаков; 15 November 178117 April 1863) was a Russian
diplomat
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,
senator
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, and
postal administrator.
Biography
Alexander Bulgakov was born in 1781 in
Constantinople in the family of a Russian diplomat, Yakov Bulgakov (1743–1809). At the beginning of his career, Bulgakov worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
[ He served in this position in 1832–1856. His younger brother Konstantin Bulgakov (1782–1835) was the Director of the Saint Petersburg Post Office at that time. Because both were the top officers of the Russian ]Postal Service
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, they could freely correspond with each other.[ Both brothers were much respected by their staff for their effort to improve working conditions for postal workers.][
]
See also
* Feodor Pryanishnikov
* Konstantin Bulgakov
* Postage stamps and postal history of Russia
A Russian Empire postman.
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Postal history
Early history
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* Yakov Bulgakov
Yakov Ivanovich Bulgakov (Russian: ''Яков Иванович Булгаков''; 15 October 1743 – 7 July 1809) was a Russian diplomat best remembered as Catherine II's emissary in Constantinople in the 1780s.
Of noble parentage, Bulgakov att ...
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1781 births
1863 deaths
Russian untitled nobility
Diplomats of the Russian Empire
Senators of the Russian Empire
Russian postmasters
Privy Councillor (Russian Empire)