Karl Vasilievich Nesselrode biography

His mother was a Jewish birth, Protestant religion. Nesselrode himself was a Protestant and until the end of his life did not learn how to speak Russian correctly. He studied at the Berlin gymnasium, served in the Navy, then in the army. After the death of Emperor Paul, his diplomatic career began. In Germany, he made friends with Metternich, whom he considered a brilliant diplomat, his advice is always saving.

Metternsh knew how to use the mood of his student well. The main idea of ​​the whole further policy of Nesselrode was a close alliance with Austria.

In a note about the political situation of Russia, G. imbued with the ideas of the Holy Union, he was hostile to any free desire, both in Europe and in Russia; He found that serfdom was equally beneficial for the landowners and peasants, and shortly before the liberation of the peasants expressed Nesselrode Milyutin’s fear, as if the reform did not destroy the patriarchal warehouse of Russian life, see the same era of liberation aspirations, he insisted in a special note on strengthening censorship stability.

In the era, even Count Kapodistria even seemed to him a liberal doctriner, which was dangerous as Minister of Foreign Affairs, even to him. The Greek uprising caused only enmity in it, like in Metternye. In the city of Nesselrode, he was sent to Tilsit, at the disposal of the Russian authorized princes Lobanov and Kurakin, and then sent to the embassy adviser to Paris, where he again met with Metternich.

To a large extent, under his influence of the dispatches, which was Nesselrode for the Russian ambassador Tolstoy, breathed hatred of France. Here, French sympathies are already significantly weakened; Therefore, Nesselrode was adopted by Emperor Alexander very affectionately and was granted by a state secretary. After the victory over Napoleon in Russia, Nesselrode, contrary to the opinion of Kutuzov, spoke out for transferring war to Germany and for the final overthrow of French power.

With G., the discovery of a secret agreement between Austria and France against Russia slightly shaken his position. Thus, there were, as it were, two foreign minists, whose views on the tasks of Russian foreign policy were significantly diverged. The emperor served as the supreme conciliator and the intermediary between them, leaning much more to the side of Nesselrode, who accompanied him to congresses in Aachen, Tropas, Libach and Verona.

Kapodistria received unlimited vacation, and Nesselrode became the only foreign minister. His policy was still in rapprochement with Austria. Nesselrode contributed to Russia's intervention in Austrian affairs, with the aim of pacifying the Hungarian uprising. Responsibility for the Crimean war is largely falling on Nesselrode. Nesselrode was made by the state chancellor; In the city of Polievktova in the "Russian Biographical Dictionary".