NESSELRODE KARL ROBERT COUNT VON (1780-1862) Signed document, passport issued to Consul General M. Bourgeois ‘with his wife, daughter and two servants’ for a trip to Paris. Saint Petersburg, 10 May 1817.

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1 sheet, laid paper, letterpress printing, gallnut ink In Russian. State seal and handwritten signature of Prince Nesselrode State seal lost, tears, stains, fold marks. Karl Vasilyevich Nesselrode (1780-1862) - Russian statesman of German Jewish origin, confidant of Emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I, penultimate Chancellor of the Russian Empire (from 1845). A supporter of closer ties with Austria and Prussia and an opponent of revolutionary movements and liberal reforms, he was one of the organisers of the Holy Alliance. Nicolas Bourgeois de Nogent was a French diplomat who, in April 1815, was appointed to the new French consular service in Saint Petersburg. During the Restoration, the parallel existence of an embassy and a consulate general in Saint Petersburg continued, while in most other capitals, the diplomatic mission also assumed consular functions.

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