Baron Arthur Pavlovich von Mohrenheim (8 June 1824 – 19 October 1906; russian: Артур Павлович Моренгейм) was a diplomat of the

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who served as ambassador to France from 1884 to 1897 and played a leading role in arranging the

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. He was born on in

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to a noble family from the

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(modern Belarus) in 1824, and after studying at

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he joined the Foreign Ministry in 1845. He served in the embassies in

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(1851–1856) and

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(1858–1867) before being appointed minister to

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in 1867. In 1882 he was named ambassador to the

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, where he served for two years before moving to France as ambassador in 1884. He was consistently committed to establishing a Franco-Russian pact, and directed the embassy in Paris towards that end. After over a decade in the post, Mohrenheim retired in 1897 and was appointed to the Russian

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. He died in the Pyrenees at Pau on . Mohrenheim was awarded the Orders of

Saint Alexander Nevsky Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (russian: Александр Ярославич Невский; ; 13 May 1221 – 14 November 1263) served as Prince of Novgorod (1236–40, 1241–56 and 1258–1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1236–52) and Grand P ...

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(1st class), and Saint Stanislaus (1st class).

References

1824 births 1906 deaths Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to France Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom Barons of the Russian Empire Diplomats from Moscow Imperial Moscow University alumni Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to Denmark Barons of Austria {{russia-diplomat-stub