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Diederik Tuyll van Serooskerken

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name	Diederik Tuyll van Serooskerken
image	Teyl van Seraskerken (cropped).jpg
image_upright	1.1
caption	Portrait by George Dawe
office	Russian ambassador to the United States
term
1blankname	Emperor
1namedata	Alexander I; Nicholas I
predecessor	Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika
successor	Paul Ludwig von Krüdener
birth_name	Diederik Jacob van
birth_date
birth_place	The Hague, Dutch Republic
death_date
death_place	off Halifax, Nova Scotia
resting_place	St. Peter's Cemetery, Halifax
spouse	Agnes Margaretha Fagel
awards	{{plainlist	class=nowrap
branch_label	Branch
branch	Russia Imperial Russian Army
serviceyears_label	Service years
serviceyears	1803–1826
rank	Major-general
battles_label	Wars
battles	Napoleonic Wars

Order of St Anna, 1st Class
Order of St Vladimir, 3rd Class}}

Diederik Jacob van Tuyll van Serooskerken (; 6 April 1772 – 11 April 1826) was a Dutch nobleman who served as a major general in the Imperial Russian Army, and later as the third Russian ambassador to the United States.

Biography

Tuyll van Serooskerken was born on 6 April 1772, in The Hague. He served in the Dutch army until November 1803. He later joined the Imperial Russian Army and fought in the Napoleonic Wars as a major general.

After the war, he served various diplomatic positions for Russia in the Kingdom of Naples and Holy See. On 19 April 1823, he was appointed by Czar Alexander I of Russia to be the Russian ambassador to the United States. Tuyll was Russian ambassador at a time when Russia was asserting claims to Alaska and American Secretary of State John Quincy Adams was formulating what would come to be known as the Monroe Doctrine, portions of which were shown to Tuyll prior to their publication in an address to Congress. He served until 1826, and died on 11 April that same year during a sea voyage from his Washington posting.

He was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in St. Peter's Cemetery, in April 1826. His grave is unmarked and lies under a parking lot built atop the cemetery.

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References

James Traub. (2016). "John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit". Basic Books.
"Historie van het geslacht van Tuyll van Serooskerken". Vantuyll.
(2015-12-12). "St. Peter's/St. Mary's Burial Registers".

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