1. Prince Pyotr Borisovich Kozlovsky was a Russian diplomat and a man of letters.
10 Facts About Pyotr Kozlovsky
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Pyotr Kozlovsky received an education at home, though this was not taken seriously until the death of an older brother.
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Pyotr Kozlovsky was closely involved in the negotiations on the demarcation of the frontiers between Switzerland, France, and the Kingdom of Sardinia and was a minor member of the Russian delegation to the Congress of Vienna.
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Pyotr Kozlovsky only returned to Russia in 1835, having suffered a serious injury in an accident in Poland which left him permanently disabled.
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Pyotr Kozlovsky died in Baden-Baden where he had gone to take the waters for health reasons.
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Galt dedicated his Letters from the Levant to him and provided him with introductions to Byron and Sir Walter Scott when Pyotr Kozlovsky passed through London on his way to Turin.
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Pyotr Kozlovsky first appears in London in early 1812, and seems to have made an immediate impression on English society.
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Pyotr Kozlovsky says he has a great desire to pay me his homage.
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Pyotr Kozlovsky appears to have visited Byron on a number of occasions complaining of the English husband and the restrictions upon their wives, but Byron's plan to return to the Mediterranean with him in the summer of 1813 came to nothing.
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In subsequent years Pyotr Kozlovsky had friendly relations with the British King George IV.