Count Albert Caetan von Edling ( Albert Caetan Graf von Edling ; 1792 - 1841 ) is a Saxon diplomat who was in charge of the external relations of the Weimar court . Member of the Imperial Odessa Society of History and Antiquities . The husband of the famous Countess Edling .
| Albert Cayetan von Edling | |
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| Albert Caetan Graf Von Edling | |
| Date of Birth | April 26, 1792 |
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| Date of death | December 11, 1841 (49 years old) |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
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Biography
Born in 1792 in the Heydenshaftsky castle, near the city of Hertz . Hardly reaching the age of twelve, Count Edling was sent by his relatives to Dresden and placed in the Page Corps, where he finished his education under the special patronage of the Saxon King Friedrich Augustus , who wished to have him with his person.
At the same time, Edling was entrusted with the obligation to accompany his peer Weimar Prince Bernard on his journey through Europe . But travelers were soon forced to return due to special political circumstances. Upon his return, the Grand Duke Karl Augustus offered Edling an honorable and permanent place. Having established himself in this way in Weimar , the count served until 1819 as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Marshal of the Grand Duchy’s court. In this position, he, incidentally, accompanied the Grand Duke on a trip to the Congress of Vienna and facilitated the accession of his government to the Holy Alliance . For his last assistance, he received an expression of the favor of Emperor Alexander I and the Order of St. Anna of the 1st degree.
In the same 1816, Count Edling, on the advice of Maria Pavlovna , who married the heir to the Weimar throne, first visited Russia to conclude a marriage with Roxandra Sturdza , beloved maid of honor of Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna . Upon returning to Weimar, he again assumed his previous position, but not for long. In 1819, the Count, having left the service, became a private person and visited his homeland, traveled to northern Italy, visited Vienna and went from there to Russia, where his family relations and property affairs were called on.
In 1822, the count and countess Edling decided to settle in southern Russia, where the land was granted to them by Emperor Alexander I in the desert part of Bessarabia . For fifteen years, the couple remained one of the pillars of Odessa society, making efforts to develop the agricultural and shepherd industry in the granted them land.
In 1841, Count Edling was struck by cataracts in both eyes and, at the insistence of the doctors, was to go to Dresden for experienced eye doctors. For the winter he stayed in Weimar, where he had many friends, and decided to wait until spring there - the estimated time for an eye operation. But he did not have to do the latter: a nervous fever joined the suffering of blindness, which brought him to the grave on December 11, 1841.