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Alexander Bezborodko
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Prince Alexander Andreyevich Bezborodko was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as the chancellor of the Russian Empire from 1797 to 1799. He was the chief architect of Catherine the Great's
Portrait of Bezborodko by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder (c. 1800)
Portrait of Bezborodko by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder (c. 1800)
Bezborodko Palace, southern façade (Pochtamskaya ulitsa), four granite columns that remained from the original Quarenghi design.
Bezborodko Palace, southern façade (Pochtamskaya ulitsa), four granite columns that remained from the original Quarenghi design.
Bezborodko Dacha, central building
Bezborodko Dacha, central building
Nizhyn Lyceum founded according to Bezborodko's testament
Nizhyn Lyceum founded according to Bezborodko's testament
Ivan Osterman
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Count Ivan Andreyevich Osterman was a Russian statesman and the son of Andrei Osterman.
Alexander Bezborodko
…was inseparably associated with Catherine in all important diplomatic affairs, though officially he was the subordinate of the vice-chancellor, Count Ivan Osterman. He wrote all the most important despatches to the Russian ministers abroad, concluded and subscribed all treaties, and performed all the functions of…
Portrait by Per Krafft the Elder, 1773
Portrait by Per Krafft the Elder, 1773