KAPODISTRIAS IOANNIS: (1776-1831) Greek Count and Statesman. One of the most distinguished diplomats of Europe. First Head of State of independent Greece 1827-31. Widely considered the founder of the modern Greek state, Kapodistrias also served as the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Russian Empire 1816-22 under Alexander I, and was succeeded by Count Nesselrode. A very good A.L.S. `I. Capodystrias´, one page, 4to, Geneva, 16th/28th March 1826, to Baron Paul de Krudener, Russian Ambassador, in French. Kapodistrias states in part `I congratulate you my dear Baron for the response you have received and which you have kindly shared with me… I think like you that other less frozen hands would have better expressed the feelings of benevolence with which you honour the Sovereign. As far as I am concerned, I have not been till now as joyful as you are, because with the exception of the letter which you have sent to me and which was written by H[is] I[mperial] H[ighness], the Tsarevich...´ further Kapodistrias states `In the meantime, what my colleague from Corfou reports to me in his letter dated 8th March proves to me and once again that the brave Greeks justify the opinion that I dared to express on their future since 1821...´ Kapodistrias further again refers to new Greek war tactics used against the Egyptians and expresses his very interesting thoughts on diplomacy. A letter of very interesting content. With blank integral leaf. Small overall age wear and creasing, otherwise G

On 1st December 1825 Tsar Alexander I died at the age of 47 without offspring. His younger brother, referred to as ''Tsarevich'' in the present letter, inherited the throne as Nicholas I and was crowned in September 1826.

Kapodistrias’s declaration in the present letter ‘that the brave Greeks justify the opinion that I dared to express on their future since 1821’ is indeed a most desirable statement by ‘the father of Greek independence’.