Vladimir Lamsdorf
| Vladimir Nikolayevich Lamsdorf Владимир Николаевич Ламсдорф |
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Count Vladimir N. Lamsdorf
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January 6, 1845 St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Died | March 19, 1907 (aged 62) San Remo, Italy |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Diplomat, Foreign Minister of Russia |
Count Vladimir Nikolayevich Lamsdorf (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Ла́мсдорф) (January 6 [O.S. December 25] 1845 – March 19 [O.S. March 6] 1907) was a Russian statesman of Baltic German descent who served as Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire in 1900–1906, a crucial period which included the Russo-Japanese War and the Russian Revolution of 1905.
Lamdorf was the son of a career officer in the Imperial Russian Army and attended the Page Corps as a youth., As with many other Russian diplomats, he attended the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in St. Petersburg and began his career as a government bureaucrat in 1866. At the Berlin Congress he was in the retinue of Prince Alexander Gorchakov, the Chancellor of the Russian Empire. In 1884 the young diplomat was present at the meeting of Alexander III of Russia, Wilhelm I of Prussia and Franz Josef of Austria in Skierniewice and Kroměříž.
Gorchakov's successor, Nicholas de Giers, singled out Lamsdorf as his protégé and prospective successor. During the 1880s, he was a vocal supporter of the Three Emperors' League but shifted his views after Bismarck's resignation in 1890. In 1897 he was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister. He played a major role at the First Hague Peace Conference of 1899. There was a fair degree of continuity in policies when he succeeded Mikhail Muraviev three years later in 1900.
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