Friedrich von der Pahlen
Friedrich Alexander Graf von der Pahlen was a Baltic German diplomat and administrator.Biography
Friedrich was the youngest son of Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, a prominent Russian courtier. He worked at Russian diplomatic missions in Sweden, France and Great Britain. In 1809-1811 he was Imperial Russia's Ambassador to the United States, in 1811-1815 he was the Ambassador to Brazil and in 1815-1822 he was the Ambassador to Bavaria.
Later, he became the General-Governor of Novorossiya and the namestnik of Bessarabia. He was also a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia. In the context of the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829, Pahlen served as governor of the Danubian Principalities, which were administered by Russia pending the payment of war reparations by the Ottoman Empire ; he was replaced by Pyotr Zheltukhin on February 2, 1829.
In Jewish history, Pahlen is credited with opening of the first secular Jewish school in Odessa.
