PAULUCCI FILIPPO (FILIPP OSIPOVICH) (1779-1849) Accompanying letter to the Travel Permit issued to the Consul General. Riga, 17 March 1815.

2 double leaves. Verge paper, handwritten text, brown oak ink. In German and Russian. Seal (p. 1), 2 Autographs of Marquis Paulucci on two pages. Minor soiling, traces of folding. Bourgeois de Nogent was a French diplomat who, in April 1815, was appointed head of the newly opened French Consular Service in St. Petersburg. During the Restoration, the embassy and the consulate general continued to exist in parallel in St. Petersburg, while in most other capitals the diplomatic mission also assumed consular functions. Filipp Osipovich Paulucci (1779-1849) was a marquis, general of the Russian and Sardinian armies, diplomat, commander-in-chief in Georgia, governor-general of Livonia, Courland, Estonia and Pskov, and governor of Genoa. On 7 October 1912, he succeeded General Essen as the military governor of Riga and commander of a separate corps. He simultaneously became the governor-general of Livonia and Courland. Under his active leadership, the suburbs of Riga, which had burned down in 1812, were rebuilt, giving the city its modern layout of quarters. Work also began on the Verman Garden, street lighting was installed and house numbering was introduced. On 10 October 1814, on Paolucci’s initiative, the first stone was laid on Riga’s Castle Square for a monument to commemorate the victory over Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812. The monument itself, the Victory Column, was unveiled on 15 September 1817. On 30 November (12 December) 1815, Emperor Alexander I, visiting Riga, was so impressed by the ‘new city’ that he awarded Paolucci the diamond insignia of the Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky.