Vigel
Filipp Filippovich Vigel (Philip Philipovich Weigel; Russian: Филипп Филиппович Вигель; 23 November [O.S. 12 November] 1786 – 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1856) was a Russian memoirist. In the course of his official career, he served in the foreign ministry, accompanied Count Golovkin on his 1805 mission to China, presided over the department of foreign religions and governed the town of Kerch.
Weigel witnessed every major event of Alexander I's reign and conversed with other Russian cultural figures. His colleagues at the Arzamas Society included Alexander Pushkin, who gently mocked Weigel's homosexual proclivities in a verse epistle.
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