Schouvaloff, COUNT PETER ANDREIEVITCH

Schouvaloff, COUNT PETER ANDREIEVITCH, Russian ambassador, was born at St Petersburg on 15th July 1827, became head of a department in the ministry of the Interior in 1862, and in 1866 head of the secret police; in 1873 he was sent on a secret mission to London, when he arranged the marriage between the Duke of Edinburgh and the only daughter of the Emperor Alexander II. In 1878 he was one of the representatives of Russia at the Congress of Berlin. He died 22d March 1889.—His brother, COUNT PAUL, born in 1830, entered the army and took part in the defence of Sebastopol and in the battle of Inkermann. As head of a department in the ministry of the Interior he helped to organise the liberation of the Russian serfs (1861). In the war of 1878 he held a command at Philippopolis. In 1885 he was appointed ambassador to Germany, and in 1895 governor of Warsaw; and in 1897 he retired.