Pyotr Yakovlevich Ubri (French Pierre d'Oubril ; Dutch Peter van Oubril ; February 7 (18), 1774 , Moscow - December 23, 1847 ( January 4, 1848 ) , Frankfurt am Main ) - Russian diplomat, ambassador to Paris, The Hague and Madrid, active Privy Councilor (since 1841).
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| Predecessor | Arkady Ivanovich Morkov | ||||||
| Successor | Peter Alexandrovich Tolstoy | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Dmitry Pavlovich Tatishchev | ||||||
| Successor | Mikhail Alexandrovich Golitsyn | ||||||
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Biography
From a Catholic noble family of Dutch origin . Arriving in Russia, his father served as an adviser to N.I. Panin . Son Peter was born in Moscow. He began his service by joining the Collegium of Foreign Affairs in 1795 as an actuary.
Four years later, he was enrolled in the office of Vice Chancellor Prince A. B. Kurakin , and in 1798 he was appointed secretary to the infantry general, Lassius . In 1800, he was appointed secretary of the Russian mission to Berlin and was granted the Maltese gentleman.
From 1801, the Secretary of the Embassy in Paris at Count A.I. Morkov , in November 1803 - August 1804, the charge d'affaires there. On August 28, 1804, he handed a note to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the severance of relations and left Paris on September 20, 1804. Upon his return to Russia, Ubri was enrolled in the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he earned the trust of Prince Adam Chartorysky .
From May 2 to June 9, 1806 he was in Paris with a special mission for negotiating a peace treaty. He signed a peace treaty with France , which was not ratified by Alexander I. Ubri was reprimanded, deported to the village, and then retired.
From May 1809 to February 1810 he was charge d'affaires in Prussia, then until October 1812, the secretary of the mission there. Since 1812, an official of the College of Foreign Affairs (French forwarder), temporarily managed the affairs of the College in 1817 and 1818.
He was the Russian commissioner in trade negotiations with Prussia in St. Petersburg. In 1817-1820, under the leadership of Ubri , A.S. Pushkin began his service.
In 1823-1824 he was an envoy in the Netherlands (at the same time managing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia), in 1824-1835 in Spain, from 1835 in Hessen-Kassel , under the German Union in Frankfurt am Main and Hesse-Darmstadt (part-time since 1841), in this post was to death.
Family
He was married to Charlotte Ivanovna (Eleanor Louise) Herman (1791-1875), the daughter of the infantry general Baron Ivan Ivanovich German von Ferzen (1740-1801) from his marriage to Charlotte Ivanovna von Gerard. Since 1844, the cavalier lady of the Order of St. Catherine the second degree. In marriage had children:
- Paul (1818-1896), diplomat.
- Maria (1819-1913), married to Baron A.F. Budberg , ambassador to France.
- Catherine (d. 1900), in 1835 she married Marchenko. A contemporary wrote: “Cupid Marchenko, marries Ubri, she is said to be very short, but prettier” [1] , “and the whole world, and mother in particular, begins to find that the young lady is making a very good party” [2] . The wedding was in the Maltese church, since Ubri was Catholic.
- Inessa (d. 1865), married to Baron K.V. Knorring , Ambassador to Portugal and the Netherlands.
Notes
- ↑ From the letters of A. Ya. Bulgakov to Princess O. A. Dolgoruky // Russian Archive . 1906. Book 3 .-- S. 109.
- ↑ Serena Vitale, Vadim Stark. Black River: Before and After. - St. Petersburg: The Star Journal, 2001. - P. 53.