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About Pyotr Genrikhovich Tiedemann
- Pyotr Genrikhovich Tiedemann (???? ?????????? ????????; 14 October 1872 – 25 June 1941) was a Russian nobleman and diplomat who served mainly in China. Tiedemann was born on 14 October 1872 in Kazan, the son of Genrikh Ottonovich Tiedemann (1839–1889), a nobleman of German Lutheran origin and an Active State Councillor, and Tat’iana Petrovna (née Savel’eva, died 1877), the daughter of a Russian Orthodox doctor.
- Tiedemann had six siblings: Ekaterina (born 1868), Anna (born 1870), Maks (1875–1917), Boris (born 1879), Tat’iana (born 1881) and Vadim (1888–1926). Tiedemann studied at the Third Classical Gymnasium in Saint Petersburg.
- There, after graduation, he attended the University of Saint Petersburg, studying in the Department of Oriental Languages, where he graduated in 1894.
- In 1895 he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- He was soon posted to Japan briefly, then China, where he rose steadily through the ranks.
- He was a student intern at the Russian embassy in Beijing (Peking) from 1896 to 1898, when he temporarily took over the consulate in Fuzhou (Foochow) until 1899.
- In 1900–01 he served as a secretary and translator at the diplomatic office in Dalian (Port Arthur), capital of the Russian leased territory of Kwantung oblast.
- On 6 October 1902, he married Adelaida Mikhailovna Skriabin, daughter of the Active State Councillor Mikhail D.
- Skriabin and of Orthodox background.
- They had a son, Dimitry (born 1906), and two daughters, Tat’iana (born 1903) and Adialeida (born 1905).
- In 1902–05 he was vice-consul at Chefoo (Yantai) and then in 1906–07 consul in Mukden (Shenyang).In 1907 Tiedemann left China to assist the diplomatic office of the Governor-General of Priamur in Khabarovsk.
- In 1908 he was back in China, serving as the Russian consul in British Hong Kong.
- In 1910 he sent Saint Petersburg scathing and detailed reports of the effect of the Portuguese Revolution in Macau, especially lamenting the anticlerical radicalism of certain elements in the Macanese garrison.
- On 14 November 1911, Tiedemann received Portuguese permission to visit Macau; an ancestor of his had moved to Macau in 1772 and died there.
- In 1911 he was made consul at Yingkou (Newchwang).
- In 1914 he moved to the Russian concession in Tientsin to act as consul and in 1915 he was promoted to consul general.
- In 1917 the February Revolution removed the tsar and then the October Revolution instituted a soviet republic.
- In 1920 diplomatic relations between China and Russia—in the midst of the Russian Civil War—were severed, and Tiedemann was without a job.
- From 1921 through 1934 he was on the municipal council of the Third Special District (the former Russian concession) in Tientsin.
- He worked to help White Russians, fleeing the Soviets, pass through.
- In 1925, his wife died.In 1934 Tiedemann requested and received permission to reside temporarily in Britain.
- From 1934 through 1937 he was on the municipal council of the British concession in Hankou.
- In 1937 he moved permanently to Montreal in Canada, where his son Dimitry was already living.
- He died there on 25 June 1941.
- He was cremated, a memorial service being held at noon on 26 June at the Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
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