Anatoly Nikolaevich Krupensky ( November 3, 1850 , Chisinau - December 5, 1923 , Rome ) - Russian diplomat, ambassador to Italy, brother V.N. Krupensky . Hoffmeister , Privy Advisor .
Biography
He came from the hereditary nobles of the Bessarabian province of Krupensky , - the son of the provincial leader of the nobility Nikolai Matveevich Krupensky and his wife Nadezhda Ivanovna Gints. Landowner of Kamenetz-Podolsky district of the Podolsk province (542 tithes ) [1] .
He began to receive higher education at Kiev University of St. Vladimir ; in September 1871 he transferred to the law faculty of Moscow University , which he graduated in 1874 .
He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .
In 1879, being the second secretary of the Russian embassy in Vienna, he received the rank of chamber junker .
Second Secretary of the Embassies in Austria-Hungary (1878–1883) and Great Britain (1883–1891). First Secretary of the Embassy in Great Britain (1891-1896).
In 1896-1905 he was an adviser to the embassy in Italy.
He served as extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister in Norway (1905-1912). He participated in negotiations on the Svalbard issue at international conferences held in Christiania (Oslo) in 1910 and 1912.
In 1912-1915 he was ambassador to Italy . After the revolution, remained in Italy.
He died in 1923 in Rome . He was buried at Testaccio cemetery .
Opinions
Count Ignatiev, military attache in the countries of Scandinavia, recalled:
the Russian mission existed in the full sense of the word at the expense of its envoy, the richest Bessarabian landowner Krupensky. My rare arrivals in Christiania brought him true joy, as they gave an extra excuse to overshadow all colleagues with their sometimes too emphasized eastern hospitality. The official duties of the Russian envoy were not burdensome: Russia's interests in Norway were exhausted at that time by observing the fishing convention. It was violated, however, from year to year by the enterprising Norwegian cod fishermen and was therefore guarded by Russian armed gunboats. In contrast to my other two messengers [approx. I. A. Kudashev in Denmark and F. A. Budberg in Sweden], people who were perfectly well-mannered and afraid of their own shadow, Krupensky with his family’s southern expansiveness treated not only his only secretary, but also Norwegian officials as their own serfs . Democratic freedom-loving Norway could not have liked this eastern satrap.
- Ignatiev A.A. Fifty years in service. Book III, chapter 7 . - M .: Military Publishing House , 1986. - S. 344. - ISBN 5-203-00055-7 .
Rewards
- Order of St. Vladimir 2nd art.
- Order of St. Anne 1st Art.
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art.
- red cross sign
- Grand Officer Cross of the French Legion of Honor
- Romanian Order of the Crown , 2nd art.
- italian big cross crown
- officer cross of the Swedish Order of the Vase
- papal pius ix commander's cross
- Montenegrin Order of Prince Daniel I , 3rd Art.