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Russian army officer and civil servant (b. 1/13 May 1818 in [[Moscow]]; d. 10/22 September 1888 in [[Munich]]), as '''''Aleksandr Vladimirovich Adlerberg''''' (Александр Владимирович Адлерберг).
Russian army officer and civil servant (b. 1/13 May 1818 in [[Moscow]]; d. 10/22 September 1888 in [[Munich]]), as '''''Aleksandr Vladimirovich Adlerberg''''' (Александр Владимирович Адлерберг).



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Aleksandr Adlerberg (1818-1888)
in an 1878 portrait by Georg von Bothmann (1810–1891)

Russian army officer and civil servant (b. 1/13 May 1818 in Moscow; d. 10/22 September 1888 in Munich), as Aleksandr Vladimirovich Adlerberg (Александр Владимирович Адлерберг).

Aleksandr was the eldest son of Count Vladimir Fyodorovich Adlerberg (1790–1884) and his wife Mariya Vasilyevna (b. Nelidova; 1800–1870). After attaining the rank of Adjutant General in 1855, and Infantry General in 1869, he became a minister at the Russian Imperial Court from 1870 to 1881, where he was a close adviser to Tsar Alexander II.

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

One letter from Tchaikovsky to Aleksandr Adlerberg has survived, and has been translated into English on this website:

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