Graf Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg (russian: Густав Оттонович Стакельберг) (5 June 1766, Reval, Governorate of Estonia – 18 April 1850, Paris, France) was a Russian

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descent, and was the son of Otto Magnus von Stackelberg. By birth, he was member of the House of Stackelberg.

Life

As a Lieutenant in the Russian armed forces he fought in the Russo-Swedish War against King Gustav III of Sweden. After he left the army, he became a diplomat of the Russian court, initially as a chamber junker of

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. From 1794 he was the

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to the Kingdom of Sardinia, from 1799 in

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, from 1802 in the

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, from 1807 in Prussia and from 1810 in Austria. After the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars,as ambassador to the Austrian Empire he was a member of the Russian delegation to the Congress of Vienna (1814–15) along with prince Razumovski, count Nesselrode and count Capo d Istria. In this capacity he was pivotal in the absorption of most of the Duchy of Warsaw into the Russian Empire as the Kingdom of Poland. After a long career as a diplomat, he was awarded the Order of St. Andrew, and spent his retirement in Paris, where he died in 1850.

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Gustav Ernst Graf von Stackelberg (1766 - 1850)
1766 births 1850 deaths People from Tallinn People from Kreis Harrien Baltic-German people Counts of Germany Diplomats of the Russian Empire Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to Austria Ambassadors of Russia to Switzerland Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the Netherlands Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to Prussia Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the Kingdom of Sardinia S 18th-century Estonian people Russian military personnel of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class {{russia-diplomat-stub