Baron Yxkull (the Russian envoy in Rome, 1876)

Overview

The Russian envoy («l'ambassadeur», «le ministre») in Rome in 1876, husband of the Baronne Yxkull. Letters for Maman come addressed «A son Excellence l'ambassadeur de Sa Majesté l'Empereur de toutes les Russies» (053.0292); Marie fears «l'accueil si froid de l'ambassadeur russe» (054.0006). On 2 April 1876 she tells how «Yxkull était un vieux célibataire» whose secretary Glinka surprised him with his wife and made him marry her (056.0323).

Identification

Very probably Baron Karl Petrovich Ikskul von Hildenbandt (1817–1894), diplomat, whose wife was Varvara Ivanovna (née Lutkovskaya, formerly the wife of the diplomat Nikolai Dmitrievich Glinka-Mavrin): the age gap and the Glinka marriage fit Marie's story. About 0.8; his posting at Rome in 1876 was not found in a list of envoys.

References in Diary

• 1876-02-01 (053.0292); 1876-02-11 (053.0494); 1876-02-12 (054.0006); 1876-04-02 (056.0322, 056.0323)

Sources

• Marie's text, carnets 052–056 (Rome, January–April 1876).
• Лутковский (znanierussia.ru, Большая российская энциклопедия online): Varvara Ivanovna Lutkovskaya (1850–1928), «в первом браке Глинка-Маврина», better known as Ikskul von Hildenbandt, daughter of General Ivan Sergeyevich Lutkovsky.
• M. G. Salman, «"Не делать не в ее характере": новые материалы к биографии В. И. Икскуль фон Гилленбанд», Slavica Revalensia (Tallinn University): her first marriage (1868) to the diplomat Nikolai Dmitrievich Glinka-Mavrin (1838–1884).
• Икскуль-Гильденбандты (ruwiki): Karl Petrovich Ikskul von Hildenbandt (1817–1894), diplomat, wife Varvara Ivanovna.