Alexander de Bodisco
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Alexander de Bodisco was the Russian ambassador to the United States from 1837 to his death in 1854. In 1840, at the age of 53, he married the 16-year old Harriet Beall Williams, which was a popular s
Portrait of Harriet Bodisco (1844)
Bodisco House at 3322 O St. NW., in Washington, D.C. (2022)
Jan Pieter van Suchtelen
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Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, Count of Liikkala, Pyotr Kornilovich Suchtelen/Sukhtelen, was a Dutch-born general in the Russian army and diplomat who became best known in Finland as the commander of the s
Alexander de Bodisco
…of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 1814, de Bodisco went to Paris and then attended the Congress of Vienna with Count Jan Pieter van Suchtelen. Afterward, Count Suchtelen was appointed the Russian Envoy and de Bodisco became Secretary of Legation at Stockholm. After Count Suchtelen died, he…
Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, Count of Liikkala.