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Russian soldier and bureaucrat (1789–1869)

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Pyotr Kleinmichel, painted byFranz Krüger

CountPyotr Andreevich Kleinmichel (Russian:Пётр Андре́евич Клейнми́хель,romanized: Pyotr Andreyevich Kleynmikhel), also known by his German namePeter von Kleinmichel (30 November 1789 – 3 February 1869), was a Russian politician who served as theminister of transport from 1842 to 1855.

He fought at theBattle of Leipzig and theBattle of Borodino.^[1] In March 1814,Alexander I was concerned for the safety of his brothersNicholas andConstantine, who were involved in theoccupation of Paris. He dispatched Kleinmichel to warn them and advise them to return toBasel. After succeeding in this, Kleinmichel was madeAide-de-Camp to the Tsar. The event also brought him to the attention of the future Tsar Nicholas I^[1]

He was responsible for building theSaint Petersburg–Moscow Railway and for restoring theWinter Palace afterthe 1837 fire.^[1] It was rumored that Nicholas I promoted his career because Kleinmichel adopted the Emperor's illegitimate children as his own. His first wife divorced him, citing hissexual dysfunction.

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Kleinmichel was married twice, first in 1816 to Varvara Kokoshkina (died 1842), the granddaughter of the business magnateAlexei Turchaninov. They divorced, according to rumours, because of hisimpotence.

In 1832 Kleinmichel married Kleopatra Petrovna Ilyinskaya (October 17, 1811 – January 17, 1865), a relative ofNicholas I's mistressVarvara Nelidova. She died of tuberculosis in Paris, and was buried in St. Petersburg. She was known in society for adopting Nicholas's illegitimate children. They had eight children.

Yelizaveta (1833–1896), married the lieutenant general Pilar von Pilchau.
Aleksandra (1835–1912),lady-in-waiting.
Nikolai (1836–1878), major general, married Countess Maria von Keller (1846–1931), granddaughter of Countess Amalie zuSayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg, sister of PrincePeter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, who, as Marie Kleinmichel, was the author of Memories of a Shipwrecked World. They had one surviving daughter, Olga.
Alexander (1837–1856)
Vladimir (1839–1882), major general
Konstantin (1840–1912)
Olga (1845–1920)
Mikhail (1848–1872), died in Paris.