Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov
Viceroy of Caucasus | |
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In office 1844–1845 | |
Preceded by | Aleksandr Neidgardt |
Succeeded by | Nikolai Read (acting) Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky |
Personal details | |
Born | 30 May [ Field Marshal |
Commands | 6th Infantry Division Russian Caucasus Forces |
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Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (Russian: Князь Михаил Семёнович Воронцов; 30 May [O.S. 19] 1782 – 18 November [O.S. 6] 1856) was a Russian nobleman and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic Wars and most famous for his participation in the Caucasian War from 1844 to 1853.
Early life
Vorontsov was born on 30 May 1782, in Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire.[1] He was the only son of Ekaterina Alekseevna Seniavina and Count Semyon Vorontsov. Mikail and his sister, Catherine (who later became the wife of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke), spent their childhood and youth with his father in London, where his father was the Russian Ambassador to Great Britain.[2][3]
He was the nephew of Imperial Chancellor
Career
From 1803 to 1804, he served in the Caucasus under
He commanded the composite grenadiers division in Prince
On 7 May 1823 he was appointed
In 1844, Vorontsov was appointed commander-in-chief and
By 1848 he had captured two-thirds of Dagestan, and the situation of the Russians in the Caucasus, so long almost desperate, was steadily improving.[5] For his campaign against Shamil, and for his difficult march through the dangerous forests of Ichkeria, he was raised to the dignity of prince, with the title of Serene Highness. In the beginning of 1853, Vorontsov was allowed to retire because of his increasing infirmities. He was made a field-marshal in 1856, and died the same year at Odessa.[5] His archives were published, in 40 volumes, by Pyotr Bartenev between 1870 and 1897.
Personal life
Vorontsov was married to Polish Countess Elżbieta "Elisabeth"
- Prince Semyon Mikhailovich Vorontsov (1823–1882), who began construction of Massandra Palace upon his return from the Russo-Turkish War but died before completion; he married, against his parents' wishes, Maria Vasilyevna Stolypina, née Princess Trubetskoy (1819-1895), daughter of Prince Vasily Sergeevich Trubetskoy (1773-1841) and Sophia Andreevna Weiss (1795-1848); widow of Alexei Grigoryevich Stolypin. They married in Alupka on August 26, 1851.
- Princess Sofya Mikhailovna Vorontsova (1825–1879), who married Count Andrey Pavlovich Shuvalov in 1844.
Prince Vorontsov died on 18 November 1856 in Odessa.
Descendants
As his son died without issue, his grandson through his daughter Sofya, Count Mikhail Andreyevich Shuvalov (1850–1903), inherited the title of Prince Vorontsov. Upon his death, without issue in 1903, the Vorontsov fortune passed to his elder sister, Countess Elizabeth Andreevna Shuvalova (1845–1924), who had married Count Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov.
Legacy
Between 1828 and 1848, Vorontsov built
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Notes
- ^ Cave 1857.
- ISBN 978-1-136-41416-9. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh (1911). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, Vol. 28. At the University Press. p. 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-7735-0747-0. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f public domain: Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Vorontsov s.v. Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 213. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ a b "Vorontsovsky palace". Zabytki (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ a b Ivchenko & Parkhomenko 2010, p. 290.
- ^ Zharikov 1983–1986, p. 299.
- ^ a b Malikenaite 2003, p. 60.
- ^ "Vorontsovsky palace". Qrim.ru (in Russian). 31 October 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ^ Gilbert 1992, p. 817.
- ^ Brett, p?
- ^ "The government has adopted a decision that removes the protection status from a number of monuments of the Soviet and imperial era" (in Ukrainian). Istorychna Pravda. 11 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
References
- Blanch, Lesley (1960). The Sabres of Paradise. London: John Murray. ISBN 9781850434030.
- Gammer, Moshe. Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. Frank Cass & Co., London, 1994. ISBN 0-7146-3431-X.
- Rhinelander, Anthony L. H. (1990). Prince Michael Vorontsov: Viceroy to the Tsar. Montreal, Quebec; Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-0747-7.
- Robbins, Richard G.; Rhinelander, Anthony L. H. (October 1991). "Review: Prince Michael Vorontsov: Viceroy to the Tsar". The American Historical Review. 96 (4). The American Historical Review, Vol. 96, No. 4: 1243–1244. JSTOR 2165141.
- "Prince Woronzoff". Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. 202. Edw. Cave. 1857. p. 107.