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{{Short description|Corsican politician and diplomat}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[Excellency|His Excellency]] | name = Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo | image = Karl Brullov 30.jpg | caption = '''Portrait of Count C. A. Pozzo di Borgo''' by [[Karl Bryullov]] (1833—1835) | office = [[List of ambassadors of Russia to the United Kingdom|Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom]] | monarch = [[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] | term_start = 5 January 1835 | term_end = 26 December 1839 | predecessor = [[Pavel Medem]] | successor = [[Nikolay Kiselyov (ambassador)|Nikolay Kiselyov]] | office1 = [[List of ambassadors of Russia to France|Russian Ambassador to France]] | monarch1 = [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]],<br>[[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] | term_start1 = 1 April 1814 | term_end1 = 5 January 1835 | predecessor1 = [[Alexander Kurakin]] | successor1 = [[Peter Palen]] | office2 = [[Anglo-Corsican Kingdom|Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Corsica]] | monarch2 = [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] | term_start2 = 17 June 1794 | term_end2 = 19 October 1796 | predecessor2 = [[Pasquale Paoli]] | successor2 = '''Office abolished''' | office3 = [[Legislative Assembly (France)|Member of the French Legislative Assembly]] | term_start3 = 1 October 1791 | term_end3 = 20 September 1792 | constituency3 = [[Corse-du-Sud]] | office4 = [[National Constituent Assembly (France)|Member of the French Constituent Assembly]] | term_start4 = 9 July 1789 | term_end4 = 1 October 1791 | constituency4 = [[Corse-du-Sud]] | office5 = [[Estates-General of 1789|Member of the Estates-General]]<br>for the [[Third Estate]] | term_start5 = 5 May 1789 | term_end5 = 9 July 1789 | constituency5 = [[Corse-du-Sud]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1764|3|8|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Alata, Corse-du-Sud|Alata]], [[Corsican Republic|Corsica]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1842|2|15|1764|3|8|df=y}} | death_place = [[Paris]], [[July Monarchy|France]] | nationality = [[French nationality law|French]]<br>[[Russian nationality law|Russian]] | party = ''[[Monarchiens|Monarchien]]'' (1789–1791)<br>[[Feuillant (political group)|Feuillant]] (1791–1792)<br>[[Legitimist]] (1792–1804) | alma_mater = [[University of Pisa]] | profession = [[Diplomat]], [[soldier]] <!--Military service-->| allegiance = {{Flag|French First Republic}}<br>{{Flagicon|Corsica}} [[Anglo-Corsican Kingdom|Kingdom of Corsica]] | branch = [[French Army]]<br>Corsican Army | serviceyears = 1792–1796 | rank = [[Lieutenant general]] | unit = Colonna-Cesari Regiment | battles = {{tree list}} * [[French Revolutionary Wars]] ** [[History of Cagliari#18th century|Siege of Cagliari]] ** Battle of [[La Maddalena]] {{tree list/end}} }} '''Count Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo''' ({{langx|fr|Charles-André Pozzo de Borgo}}, {{langx|ru|Карл Осипович Поццо ди Борго}}, ''Karl Osipovich Potso di Borgo''; 8 March 1764 – 15 February 1842) was a [[Corsica]]n politician, who later became a [[Russia]]n [[diplomat]]. He was an official representative of his homeland in [[Paris]] before entering the Russian diplomatic service. His life was dominated by opposition to [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], driven by a life-long hatred of him from an early age, considering him a traitor.
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