Diederik Tuyll van Serooskerken

Diederik Tuyll van Serooskerken
Diederik Tuyll van Serooskerken
	Portrait by George Dawe
Russian ambassador to the United States
	In office; 19 April 1823 – 11 April 1826
Emperor	Alexander I; Nicholas I
Preceded by	Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika
Succeeded by	Paul Ludwig von Krüdener
Personal details
Born	Diederik Jacob van Tuyll van Serooskerken; 6 April 1772; The Hague, Dutch Republic
Died	11 April 1826 (aged 54); off Halifax, Nova Scotia
Resting place	St. Peter's Cemetery, Halifax
Spouse(s)	Agnes Margaretha Fagel
Awards	Order of St Anna, 1st Class; Order of St Vladimir, 3rd Class;
Military service
Branch	Imperial Russian Army
Service years	1803–1826
Rank	Major-general
Wars	Napoleonic Wars

Diederik Jacob van Tuyll van Serooskerken (Russian: Fyodor Vasilyevich Teil van Seraskerken; 6 April 1772 – 11 April 1826) was a Dutch nobleman who served as a major general in the Imperial Russian Army, and later as the fourth Russian ambassador to the United States.

Biography

Tuyll van Serooskerken was born on 6 April 1772, in The Hague. He served in the Dutch army until November 1803. He later joined the Imperial Russian Army and fought in the Napoleonic Wars as a major general.

After the war, he served various diplomatic positions for Russia in the Kingdom of Naples and Holy See. On 19 April 1823, he was appointed by Czar Alexander I of Russia to be the Russian ambassador to the United States.[1] He served until 1826, and died on 11 April that same year during a sea voyage from his Washington posting.[2]

He was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in St. Peter's Cemetery, in April 1826. His grave is unmarked and lies under a parking lot built on top of the cemetery.[3]

References

Footnotes

Nichols 1972, p. 446.
"Historie van het geslacht van Tuyll van Serooskerken" (in Dutch). Vantuyll. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
Pollock, G. D.; et al. (12 December 2015). "St. Peter's/St. Mary's Burial Registers". Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia. Retrieved 8 June 2019.

Sources

Bezotosny, V. M. (2003). "Тейль Ван Сераскеркен, Федор Васильевич". Dictionary of Russian Generals (in Russian). Museum.ru. Retrieved 8 June 2019.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Nichols, I. C.; et al. (1972). "Anglo-American Relations and the Russian Ukase: A Reassessment". Pac. Hist. Rev. 41 (4): 444–459. doi:10.2307/3638395. JSTOR 3638395.

External links

Works by Diederik Jacob Tuyll van Serooskerken at WorldCat Identities

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[FOOTNOTENichols1972446-1] Nichols 1972, p. 446.

[2] "Historie van het geslacht van Tuyll van Serooskerken" (in Dutch). Vantuyll. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.

[3] Pollock, G. D.; et al. (12 December 2015). "St. Peter's/St. Mary's Burial Registers". Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia. Retrieved 8 June 2019.