Buhler, Karl Yakovlevich

Baron Karl Yakovlevich Buhler (1749-1811) - Russian diplomat and senator.

Karl Yakovlevich Bühler
him Karl Heinrich von Bühler
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Father	Jacob Albrecht Bühler
Mother	Elizaveta Ivanovna Gross
Spouse	Ekaterina Ivanovna Schilling von Kanstadt
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He was educated at the University of Tübingen and Göttingen . At the end of 1772 his uncle, the Russian envoy to the Lower Saxon District, F. I. Gross sent Buhler to St. Petersburg with various affairs, and on arrival there, he was taken to the Russian service in 1773 and appointed translator to the office of the aforementioned Gross.

In 1776, he was promoted to titular advisers, and in 1780 to collegiate assessors. November 14, 1781 Baron Bühler - Counselor at the embassy in Frankfurt am Main with the appointment to be under Count N. P. Rumyantsev . On February 12, 1786, advisers were made in the office, in 1787 he was sent to Prince G. A. Potyomkin , appointed head of his diplomatic office to conduct correspondence in foreign languages ​​and head of field mails.

April 14, 1789 - State Counselor, in December, was appointed Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister to the Elector of Bavaro-Palatinate . In 1791 he was sent to Vienna to congratulate the Emperor Leopold II on his accession to the throne; in addition, he was instructed to find out the intentions of the Vienna Cabinet regarding military operations against the common enemy. Then Buhler went to the congress in Iasi , where he was under the count A. A. Bezborodko . Upon the conclusion of peace, Bühler returned to Petersburg.

On February 12, 1792, he was promoted to active state councilor with an appointment to Poland as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Targowitz Confederation . With the destruction of this confederation, he remained in Grodno until the closure of the last Polish Sejm. September 2, 1793 awarded the Order of Vladimir 2 tbsp. In 1794, Kosciuszko’s uprising broke out in Poland, Bühler was captured by the rebels and sent to Warsaw, where he was held together with the diplomatic secretary of Count O.A. Ighelstrom P. Divov in arsenal under arrest for about 8 months, then returned to St. Petersburg.

February 20, 1795 returned to his duties as plenipotentiary minister at the Munich court. On April 5, 1797, on the day of the coronation of Pavel I , he was promoted to secret advisers and in the same year he was sent with special assignments, first to Stuttgart to the court of the Empress Maria Fedorovna’s parents, and then to Regensburg to the imperial Diet. February 22, 1798 he received the Order of St.. Anna 1 st.

In 1799, according to the instructions he received from Emperor Paul, he negotiated with the Elector of Bavaria for the affairs of the Order of Malta , on December 29 of the same year, on the proposal of A. V. Suvorov, he was awarded the Order of St.. Alexander Nevsky for providing diplomatic support for the passage of Russian troops through Bavaria.

In 1802, Baron Bühler received an important diplomatic mission to draw up in Regensburg, together with the French Minister Laforêt, an act of guarantee regarding the treatment of the spiritual estates in the secular possession and remuneration of the imperial princes and officials in the local diet, mediated by Russia and France. September 8, 1803 awarded the Order of St. John of Jerusalem the Great Cross.

On January 26, 1808, he was recalled from Bavaria and returned to St. Petersburg, where he was appointed to attend the Governing Senate on October 7, 1810, and at the same time be a member of the State Collegium of Foreign Affairs. On October 10 of the same 1810, he was ordered to be present in the 2nd branch of the 3rd Department of the Senate.

He died in St. Petersburg and was buried in the Smolensk Lutheran cemetery.