Eduard de Stoeckl
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Eduard Andreevich Stoeckl was a Russian diplomat best known today for having negotiated the American purchase of Alaska on behalf of the Russian government.
Photograph of Baron de Stoeckl, by Mathew Brady, between 1855 and 1865
The signing of the Alaska Treaty of Cessation on March 30, 1867. L-R: Robert S. Chew, William H. Seward, William Hunter, Mr. Bodisco, Eduard de Stoeckl, Charles Sumner and Frederick W. Seward. The painting's name is Signing of the Alaska Treaty
Photograph of his daughter-in-law, Agnes Barron, 1902
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
Eduard de Stoeckl
…Washington and, from 1849 to 1851, chargé d'affaires of the Russian embassy in Washington, and in 1854 held the post of minister, vacant after death of Aleksandr Bodisko. Stoeckl established close friendly relations with many American officials and politicians, including the senator and the future Secretary of State…
Portrait of Harriet Bodisco (1844)
Bodisco House at 3322 O St. NW., in Washington, D.C. (2022)