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Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg (russian: Густав Оттонович Стакельберг) (5 June 1766,

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– 18 April 1850,

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) was a Russian diplomat of Baltic-German descent, and was the son of

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. By birth, he was member of the House of Stackelberg.

Life

As a

Lieutenant A lieutenant ( , ; abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations. The meaning of lieutenant differs in different militaries (see comparative military ranks), but it is often ...

in the Russian armed forces he fought in the Russo-Swedish War against King Gustav III of Sweden. After he left the army, he became a diplomat of the Russian court, initially as a chamber junker of Empress Catherine the Great. From 1794 he was the Russian ambassador to the

Kingdom of Sardinia The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom of Savoy-S ...

, from 1799 in Switzerland, from 1802 in the Batavian Republic, from 1807 in

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

and from 1810 in

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. After the defeat of

in the

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,as ambassador to the Austrian Empire he was a member of the Russian delegation to the Congress of Vienna (1814–15) along with prince Razumovski, count Nesselrode and count Capo d Istria. In this capacity he was pivotal in the absorption of most of the

Duchy of Warsaw The Duchy of Warsaw ( pl, Księstwo Warszawskie, french: Duché de Varsovie, german: Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during ...

into the

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as the

Kingdom of Poland The Kingdom of Poland ( pl, Królestwo Polskie; Latin: ''Regnum Poloniae'') was a state in Central Europe. It may refer to: Historical political entities * Kingdom of Poland, a kingdom existing from 1025 to 1031 * Kingdom of Poland, a kingdom exi ...

. After a long career as a diplomat, he was awarded the

Order of St. Andrew The Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called (russian: Орден Святого апостола Андрея Первозванного, translit=Orden Svyatogo apostola Andreya Pervozvannogo) is the highest order conferred by both the ...

, and spent his retirement in Paris, where he died in 1850.

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Gustav Ernst Graf von Stackelberg (1766 - 1850)
1766 births 1850 deaths People from Tallinn People from Kreis Harrien Baltic-German people Counts of Germany Diplomats of the Russian Empire Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to Austria Ambassadors of Russia to Switzerland Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the Netherlands Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to Prussia Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the Kingdom of Sardinia S 18th-century Estonian people Russian military personnel of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class {{russia-diplomat-stub