Andreas Ludwig Karl Theodor Freiherr von Budberg-Bönninghausen (russian: Андрей Фёдорович Будберг; born Riga, 1 January 1817 – died St Petersburg, 28 January 1881) was a

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diplomat.

Life

His father was Theodor Otto von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1779–1840), a

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in the Imperial Russian Army and his mother was Baroness Helene Juliane von Budberg (1787–1856, daughter of Foreign Minister Andrei von Budberg), from an old

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family. After attending the cathedral school at

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, Budberg continued his education at St Petersburg and entered the Russian diplomatic service in 1841. In 1845 he was joined the Russian embassy at the German

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, becoming chargé d'affaires there in 1848. In 1850 he played the same role for

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, being promoted to ambassador in 1851. In 1856 he became the Russian ambassador to

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, returning to Berlin between 1858 and 1862. Then he was appointed Russian ambassador to

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, a role he fulfilled until 1868. In 1862 with Budberg's agreement the French political police arrested in emissaries of

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(''Komitet Centralny Narodowy''), a secret

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organization, who were returning from

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. Just before the January Uprising, the French handed Budberg a list of all conspiring regiments and a description of roads used to smuggle weapons for polish insurgents from abroad.

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: ''Dwie drogi'', Warsaw, 1992, Whilst in Berlin he lived in the former Amalienpalais, in

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. He was greatly interested in Japan and knew

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. He was also closely connected with Count Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Grand Duke Konstantin and Baron Wadenstierna.

References

External links

Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften, Teil 1, 2: Livland, Lfg. 9-15, Görlitz 1929, pp.657
Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to Austria Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to France Baltic-German people 1817 births 1881 deaths 19th-century diplomats of the Russian Empire {{Russia-noble-stub