Count, His Serene Highness Prince Alexander Bezborodko (1747-1799) was a Russian statesman. Emperor Paul I awarded him the then-highest rank of a Chancellor of the Russian Empire.
In 1765, Bezborodko was appointed the Chief of the Office of Little Russia Governor-General Count Peter Rumyantsev.
On March 22, 1774, Alexander Bezborodko was granted the rank of a colonel for his service, and in the next year of 1775, after his arrival to Moscow, he entered the Sovereign's office for the acceptance of petitions to the highest name. As time passed, he became the most influential of all her secretaries of state.
Alexander Bezborodko participated in the conclusion of the maritime declaration of February 28, 1780, and in a number of other treaties on maritime neutrality, as well as in the conclusion of the defensive alliance treaties of Russia with Austria, Prussia (1792) and Great Britain (1794), and in the third partition of Poland (1795).
The postage stamp features a portrait of Alexander Bezborodko against the background of his palace in St. Petersburg (currently the A. Popov Central Museum of Communications).
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