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He was assigned to political missions early on and was particularly active in 1743 in the peace negotiations in Turku. In 1756, he went to Courland as Minister for Empress Elisabeth, a post he held with great skill under the most difficult circumstances until the end of his life. King Stanislaus Augustus made him and his brother a baron. He died in 1777 as a Russian Active State Councillor in Spa.