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Filipp Filippovich Vigel (23 November [O.S. 12 November] 1786 – 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1856) was a Russian noble of Swedish extraction who served in the foreign ministry. He accompanied Count Golovkin on his 1805 mission to China, presided over the department of foreign religions and governed the town of Kerch. Vigel witnessed every major event of Alexander I's reign and conversed with other Russian cultural figures. Wikipedia