Graf

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 Pavel Petrovich Ubri was a Russia

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n diplomat

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.

As First Adviser of the Embassy of Russia in Vienna

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, Ubri was the right-hand of Prince Alexander Gorchakov in the lead up of the Crimean War

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 during the Vienna Conference of 1853. He transferred to Paris

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 in 1856 as First Adviser of the Russian embassy in Paris, and during this time he became friends with Otto von Bismarck

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, and nurtured friendly links between the royal courts in Berlin

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 and Saint Petersburg

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 when in 1863 he was appointed as Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Berlin, and was also accredited concurrently to the North German Confederation

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 in 1868, and later to the German Empire

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 on 30 December 1871.

In 1880, he was appointed as Russian ambassador in Vienna

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. A devout Catholic

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, he carried out negotiations with Luigi Jacobini

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 to reconcile differences between the Russian Empire

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 and the Vatican

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, but in 1882 he was recalled from Vienna and was appointed as a member of the State Council.

He died in 1896.