Draft:Alexander Vladimirovich Adlerberg
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Biography
[edit]Born 1st of May 1818 in St. Petersburg [1].
His father was the minister of the court Vladimir Fyodorovich Adlerberg. His mother, Maria Vasilyevna, was a cousin of the Emperor's favorite Varvara Nelidova.
He was educated in the Corps of Pages, from where he was released as an ensign in the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment. In 1836 he was appointed to serve under the Tzarevich Alexander II, who became his closest friend for life.
In 1841 he was sent by the highest command to the Caucasus, to the detachments of troops operating against Shamil, and, being under the commander of a separate Caucasian corps, General of Infantry Golovin took part in an expedition to Dagestan.
In 1845 was promoted to the rank of captain. In 1850, in the rank of colonel accompanied the heir on a trip to the Caucasus.
At the accession to the throne of Emperor Alexander II in 1855, Count Adlerberg was appointed adjutant on April 17 of the same year, and was promoted to major general, with appointment to His Majesty's retinue.
In the same year, on June 10, he was entrusted with the charge of the special department of the military-passenger office for His Majesty's own affairs.
In1861 he was promoted to lieutenant-general and on April 23 was appointed commander of the Imperial General Quarters, and later he was first a member of the Military Council (March 15) and then member of the State Council and member of the committee for revising the drafts of new military-judicial establishments.
In 1869 he was appointed Ministry of the Imperial Court.
In 1871 he was also appointed Chancellor of the Russian Imperial and Tsarist Orders and chairman of a special commission to discuss the question of filling the posts of the civil department exclusively with civil officials. In 1874 he was granted the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called.
In 1877, while staying with the Emperor during the Russo-Turkish War, he was appointed chief of the Kamchatka 44th Infantry Regiment.
After the assassination of Alexander II, Count Adlerberg was dismissed on August 17, 1881, "due to his distressed health" from the posts of Minister of the Court and Chancellor of Russian Orders, and Commander of the Imperial General Quarters.
He died on October 4, 1888 of an apoplectic stroke in Munich.
