DEATH OF A RUSSIAN NOTABLE.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 278, 26 March 1889, Page 2

DEATH OF A RUSSIAN NOTABLE.

St PxrmsßUßG, March 24. Obituary : Count Peter Sohuvaloff, aged 61. [Count Peter Sohuvaloff was born in 1828. He at first entered the military service and in 1864 was advanced to the rank ot general. He filled successively the poet ot military attache in Paris, of functionary in the Ministry ot the Interior, and GovernorGeneral of the Baltic provinces. He was advanced eubsequently to the post of Chief ot the Secret Police, third section of the ItUpfltoL Chancollerie, wbiob is in Russia a portant position, the occupant having, great measure, to deal with foreign affairs. This appointment was made in 1866, and for upwards of seven years Count Sohuvaloff retained tbat post, and enjoyed the most implicit confidence of his sovereign, upon whom he exercised greater influence than any of his colleagues. His appointment as Ambassador to Her Majesty Qussn Victoria was looked upon by some in Russia as a kind ot exile. Some believed thst he was seal to England owing to Prines Gorteohakoff's jealousy, the Prince looking upon him us his rival and aspirant for the post of Chanestlor. Other reasons of a more private nature wars likewise assigned f»r his expatriation ; but on the other hand it was likewise said that ths Czar had chosen him for his representative in England on account of the confidence he reposed in the Count’s ability, and in his devotion to the Emperor. If thia lattes motive was the real cause ot the appointment, evsnte have proved the farsightedness of tbs Ozar, who could not have-had a better servant daring the trying negotiations between the two countries. The evident success which hod crowned his labors whsn the Count wae eent on a special mission to this country previous to his appointment as Ambassador, to appease the susceptibilities ot the then Gladstone cabinet respecting the Russian expedition to Khiva, was no doubt another reason for his being entrusted with the post of Ambassador tq England, and the subsequent ooourrebcee have shown the necessity of Russia being ably represented. In a great measure it may b 4 attributed to Count Schuvaloff that, up to ths present, England and Ramie have avoided coming to an open rupture. All through, however, the Count had been apposed to PrinM Gortsohakoff’s policy, and was certainly his rival. On the occasion of his retiring from his post in London (Nov. 1879) ths Csar an* Sointed him a Knight ef this St, Wladmlr rder, First ClaeS-J