In 1840, at the age of 53, he married the 16-year old Harriet Beall Williams, which was a popular subject of gossip in Washington, D.C., at the time.

[4] His career started in the Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

[4] In 1814, de Bodisco went to Paris and then attended the Congress of Vienna with Count Jan Pieter van Suchtelen.

Afterward, Count Suchtelen was appointed the Russian Envoy and de Bodisco became Secretary of Legation at Stockholm.

[3] de Bodisco purchased a parcel of land in 1845 in the modern day Crestwood neighborhood in Washington, D.C.