Shuvalov, Piotr Andreyevich, Count, 1827-89, Russian administrator and diplomat. An adviser to Czar Alexander II, he opposed the czar's reforms and headed (1866-73) the notorious third section, or political police, of the imperial chancellery. He also served as envoy (1873), then ambassador (1874-79), to Great Britain. In 1878, at the end of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), he negotiated to secure a treaty that would please Great Britain more than the Treaty of San Stefano, which had greatly enhanced Russian influence in SE Europe. His willingness to accommodate Great Britain led to the Congress of Berlin, which abrogated the territorial gains of the Treaty of San Stefano. The new territorial arrangements were unpopular in Russia, and Shuvalov was recalled.

Shuvalov (Шува́лов) is a Russian noble family which, although documented since the 16th century, rose to distinction during the reign of Empress Elizabeth and was elevated to counts on 5 September, 1746.

People

Members of Shuvalov noble family

The notable Shuvalovs include:

• Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (1727-1797), lover of Empress Elizabeth and Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment, who declined a comital title offered to him by the sovereign;
• Count Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov (1710-1771), his first cousin, Field Marshal and head of the secret police;
• Count Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov (1711-1762), the latter's brother, Field Marshal and Minister of War, one of the most influential policy-makers during Elizabeth's reign;
• Count Andrey Petrovich Shuvalov (1743-1789), the latter's son, spent most of his life abroad, conversing with Voltaire and writing libertarian verses in French; the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica names him as the true author of Catherine II's celebrated letters to the French Encyclopedists;
• Count Peter Andreyevich Shuvalov (1827-1889), the latter's grandson, who wielded great influence at the court of Alexander II of Russia;
• Count Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov (1776-1823), Russian general during Patriotic War 1812;
• Count Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov (1830-1908), the latter's brother, who represented Russia at the Congress of Berlin and at the German court;
• Count Pavel Pavlovich Shuvalov (1859-1905), the latter's son, who headed the Moscow police before his assassination by revolutionaries in 1905;
• Count Mikhail Andreyevich Shuvalov (1850-1903), inherited the title of Prince Vorontsov from his maternal grandfather but died without issue.

Other people with Shuvalov last name

• Igor Shuvalov (born 1967) - First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia

Palaces

The Shuvalov seats include four residences in St Petersburg:

• the Baroque palace of Ivan Shuvalov on Italianskaya Street, constructed in 1749-55 to a design by Savva Chevakinsky, later sold to the Ministry of Justice, best known as the place where the Imperial Academy of Arts started to operate;
• the Neoclassical palace of Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov, later sold to the House of Yusupov, who decorated it with shameless opulence, best known as the place where Rasputin was killed (, , , );
• another Neoclassical palace, inherited by Pavel Petrovich Shuvalov from the Naryshkins in 1900 (illustrated, to the right);
• the manor of Shuvalovo near St Petersburg.

They also inherited the possessions and castles of the ducal Biron family in Courland, such as the Rundale Palace.

External links

• Shuvalov family tree
• Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften Teil 2,3: Estland, Görlitz 1930