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[[File:Budberg-af.jpg|thumb|Andrey Fedorovich Budberg]]
'''Andreas Ludwig Karl Theodor Freiherr<ref>{{German title Freiherr}}</ref> von Budberg-Bönninghausen''' ({{langx|ru|Андрей Фёдорович Будберг}}; born [[Riga]], 1 January 1817 – died [[St Petersburg]], 28 January 1881) was a [[Russian Empire]] [[diplomat]].
== Life ==
His father was Theodor Otto von [[Budberg|Budberg-Bönninghausen]] (1779–1840), a [[Colonel]] in the [[Imperial Russian Army]] and his mother was Baroness Helene Juliane von Budberg (1787–1856, daughter of Foreign Minister [[Andrei Budberg|Andrei von Budberg]]), from an old [[Baltic German]] family. After attending the cathedral school at [[Reval]], Budberg continued his education at St Petersburg and entered the Russian diplomatic service in 1841.
In 1845 he was joined the Russian embassy at the German [[Bundestag]] in [[Frankfurt]], becoming chargé d'affaires there in 1848. In 1850 he played the same role for [[Prussia]] in [[Berlin]], being promoted to ambassador in 1851. In 1856 he became the Russian ambassador to [[Austria]] at [[Vienna]], returning to Berlin between 1858 and 1862. Then he was appointed Russian ambassador to [[France]], a role he fulfilled until 1868.
In 1862 with Budberg's agreement the French political police arrested in emissaries of [[Central National Committee (January Uprising)|Central National Committee]] (''Komitet Centralny Narodowy''), a secret  [[Polish people|Polish]] organization, who were returning from [[London]]. Just before the [[January Uprising]], the French handed Budberg a list of all conspiring regiments and a description of roads used to smuggle weapons for polish insurgents from abroad.<ref>[[Paweł Jasienica]]: ''Dwie drogi'', Warsaw, 1992, {{ISBN|83-07-02299-1}}</ref>
Whilst in Berlin he lived in the former [[Amalienpalais]], in [[Unter den Linden]].
He was greatly interested in [[Japan]] and knew [[Philipp Franz von Siebold]]. He was also closely connected with Count [[Karl Robert von Nesselrode]], [[Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia|Grand Duke Konstantin]] and Baron Wadenstierna.
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== External links ==
*{{in lang|de}} [http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00000559/images/index.html?id=00000559&nativeno=657 Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften, Teil 1, 2: Livland, Lfg. 9-15, Görlitz 1929, pp.657]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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