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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Adam Brand (born before 1692 - died 1746) was a German merchant and explorer. He was born in Lübeck and undertook several trading journeys to Moscow.In 1692 the czar Peter the Great entrusted Eberhard Isbrand Ides with a mission to Emperor Kangxi of China.Adam Brand accompanied him as secretary of the embassy.Ides and his mission, which consisted of more than 250 noblemen, advisors, merchants and soldiers, reached Beijing, the capital city of the Empire, in 1693 after 18 months of travel. The main achievement of the embassy was that the Russians were allowed to carry business in Beijing with a caravan of maximum 200 members every three years.In 1697 Adam Brand was made Court Councillor and Commercial Councillor (Hofrath and Commerzienrath respectively (honorary titles bestowed by the Prussian state)). Although Brand had been chosen to act as Prussian envoy to Persia, the death of King Frederic I of Prussia in 1713 led to this project never being materialised.He then went to reside at Königsberg where he ended his days in 1746."@en }

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