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See also:SHUVALOV (sometimes written SCHOUVALOFF), See also:PETER ANDREIVICH, See also:COUNT (1827–1889)
, See also:Russian diplomatist, was See also:born in 1827 of an old Russian See also:family which See also:rose to distinction and imperial favour about the See also:middle of the 18th See also:century
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Several of its members attained high•See also:rank in the See also:army and the See also:civil See also:administration, and one of them may be regarded as the founder of the See also:Moscow University and the St See also:Petersburg See also:Academy of the See also:Fine Arts
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As a youth See also:Count See also:Peter Andreivich showed no See also:desire to emulate his distinguished ancestors
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He studied just enough to qualify for the army, and for nearly twenty years he led the agreeable, See also:commonplace See also:life of a fashionable officer of the See also:Guards
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In 1864 See also:Court See also:influence secured for him the See also:appointment of See also:Governor-See also:General of the Baltic Provinces, and in that position he gave See also:evidence of so much natural ability and tact that in 1866, when the revolutionary See also:fermentation in the younger See also:section of the educated classes made it advisable to See also:place at the See also:head of the See also:political See also:police a See also:man of exceptional intelligence and See also:energy, he was selected by the See also:emperor for the See also:post
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In addition to his See also:regular functions, he was entrusted by his See also:Majesty with much See also:work of a confidential, delicate nature, including a See also:mission to See also:London in 1873
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The ostensible See also:object of this mission was to arrange amicably certain See also:diplomatic difficulties created by the advance of See also:Russia in Central See also:Asia, but he was instructed at the same See also:time to prepare the way for the See also:marriage of the See also:grand duchess See also:Marie Alexandrovna with the See also:duke of See also:Edinburgh, which took place in See also:January of the following See also:year
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At that time the emperor See also: For a time Alexander II. resisted the popular clamour, but in the autumn of 1879, when See also:Prince See also:Bismarck assumed an attitude of hostility towards Russia, Count Shuvalov, who had been See also:long regarded as too amenable to Bismarckian influence, was recalled from his post as ambassador in London; and after living for nearly ten years in retirement, he died at St Petersburg in 1889 . (D . M . |
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