Count Adolphe de Polier[1] (1795 – 1830) was a French officer in the service of the Russian Empire.

He was posthumous son of Antoine Polier, an engineer who had made a fortune in India and then returned in time to be called an aristocrat during the French revolution.

In 1829, he accompanied Alexander von Humboldt to the Ural region to some land that was owned by his wife.

Polier went off on his own and after four days a local 14 year old peasant boy showed him a diamond he had discovered.

[3] Count Polier died at the age of 35 and was buried at his wife's estate of Pargolovo near Saint Petersburg in a vault commissioned from Alexander Brullov.