Yury Golovkin

Count Golovkin in the 1790s

Count Yurii Alexandrovich Golovkin (Russian: Юрий Александрович Головкин) (1762–1846) was a Russian diplomat who served as Russian Minister (ambassador) in Stuttgart (1813–18) and in Vienna (1818–1822), but is best remembered for his leadership of the ambitious mission to China despatched in 1805.[1]

  1. ^ Ocherk istorii Ministerstva Inostrannykh Del 1802-1902 (St Petersburg: Ministerstvo Inostrannykh Del, 1902), Appendix p. 28.