Pavel Ubri

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rdf:langString Graf Pavel Petrovich Ubri (Russian: Павел Петрович Убри; 1820–1896) was a Russian diplomat. As First Adviser of the Embassy of Russia in Vienna, Ubri was the right-hand of Prince Alexander Gorchakov in the lead up of the Crimean War during the . He transferred to Paris in 1856 as First Adviser of the Russian embassy in Paris, and during this time he became friends with Otto von Bismarck, and nurtured friendly links between the royal courts in Berlin and Saint Petersburg when in 1863 he was appointed as , and was also accredited concurrently to the North German Confederation in 1868, and later to the German Empire on 30 December 1871. In 1880, he was appointed as Russian ambassador in Vienna. A devout Catholic, he carried out negotiations with Luigi Jacobini to reconcile differences between the Russian Empire and the Vatican, but in 1882 he was recalled from Vienna and was appointed as a member of the State Council. He died in 1896. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pavel Petrovich Ubri.