Gorchakov
The House of Gorchakov, or Gortchakoff (
Aleksey Gorchakov
The family first achieved prominence during the reign of
Pyotr Gorchakov
Prince Peter Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1790–1868) served under
When the
Mikhail Gorchakov
Prince Mikhail Dmitrievich (1795–1861), brother of the last named, was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian troops which occupied
In 1855 Gorchakov was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in the Crimea in place of the disgraced
Alexander Gorchakov
Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov (1798–1883) served as
.Gorchakov was appointed Foreign Minister in April 1856 soon after the end of the Crimean War of 1853 to 1856; he represented the Russian Empire at the Paris Congress of 1856. His main objective was to restore Russia's international prestige after the bitter defeat. At first he steered the country towards an alliance with Napoleon III of France, but rebuffed by the latter's support of the January Uprising in Poland, joined his archrival Otto von Bismarck in setting up the League of the Three Emperors in 1873. Following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, Gorchakov succeeded in his long-term goal or revising the key clauses of the Paris Treaty, especially those containing Russia's interests in the Black Sea.
The aged chancellor was so disgusted by the modification of the
In popular culture
The Gorchakov family play a central role in 1636: The Kremlin Games and other works in the Russian thread of the 1632 alternate history science fiction series.
References
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- ^ a b c d e f public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gorchakov". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 246. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- (in Russian) Gorchakov genealogy