Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov

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Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (Template:Langx; Template:OldStyleDate Template:Snd Template:OldStyleDate) 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 lifeEdit

Vorontsov was born on 30 May 1782, in Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire.Template:Sfn 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.<ref name="Keegan2014">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Chisholm1911">Template:Cite book</ref>

He was the nephew of Imperial Chancellor Alexander Vorontsov, Elizaveta Vorontsova and Princess Dashkova, a friend of Catherine the Great and a conspirator in the coup d'état that deposed Tsar Peter III and put his wife on the throne.<ref name="Rhinelander1990">Template:Cite book</ref>

CareerEdit

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Vorontsov is shown second from the left in George Cruikshank's The Allied Bakers, illustrating the final defeat of Napoleon

He commanded the composite grenadiers division in Prince Petr Bagration's Second Western Army during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. At the Battle of Borodino, his division was on the front line and was attacked by three French divisions under Marshal Davout. Of the 4,000 men in his division, only 300 survived the battle. Vorontsov was wounded but recovered to rejoin the army in 1813. He commanded a new grenadiers division and fought at the Battle of Dennewitz and the Battle of Leipzig.Template:Citation needed He was the commander of the corps of occupation in France from 1815 to 1818.<ref name="EB1911"/>

On 7 May 1823, he was appointed governor-general of New Russia, as the southern provinces of the empire were then called, and namestnik of Bessarabia. At the start of the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, Vorontsov succeeded the wounded Menshikov as commander of the forces besieging Varna, which he captured on 28 September 1828. Due to his energetic efforts, the plague, which had broken out in the Ottoman Empire, did not spread into Russia.<ref name="EB1911"/>

In 1844, Vorontsov was appointed commander-in-chief and viceroy of the Caucasus (for military details see Murid War). At the Battle of Dargo (1845), he was nearly defeated and barely fought his way out of the Chechen forest.

By 1848, he had captured two-thirds of Dagestan, and the situation of the Russians in the Caucasus, which had long been almost desperate, was steadily improving.<ref name="EB1911" /> 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. At 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.<ref name="EB1911" /> His archives were published, in 40 volumes, by Pyotr Bartenev between 1870 and 1897.

Personal lifeEdit

Template:Stack Vorontsov was married to Polish Countess Elżbieta "Elisabeth" Branicka, a daughter of Count Franciszek Ksawery Branicki and Aleksandra von Engelhardt (a member of the powerful Engelhardt family). Her brother was Count Władysław Grzegorz Branicki who married Countess Róża Potocka (daughter of Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki). His wife reportedly had a liaison with Alexander Pushkin during her stay in Odessa, which resulted in some of the finest poems in the Russian language.Template:Citation needed Together, Mikhail and Elisabeth were the parents of:

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.

DescendantsEdit

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.

LegacyEdit

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Vorontsov's Moorish Castle in Alupka, Crimea (1828–46)

Between 1828 and 1848, Vorontsov built Vorontsov Palace as a summer residence for 9 million roubles.<ref name=inua>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The palace is located at the foot of the Crimean Mountains near the town of Alupka in Crimea.<ref name=Ivchenko>Template:Harvnb</ref> Today, it is one of the oldest and largest palaces in Crimea and one of the most popular tourist attractions on Crimea's southern coast.<ref name=vlasenko-299>Template:Harvnb</ref><ref name=touring>Template:Harvnb</ref> It was designed in a loose interpretation of the English Renaissance revival style by English architect Edward Blore and his assistant William Hunt.<ref name=touring/><ref name=qrim>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The building is a hybrid of several architectural styles, but faithful to none. Among those styles are elements of Scottish Baronial,<ref name=churchill>Template:Harvnb</ref> Indo-Saracenic Revival Architecture,<ref>Brett, p?</ref> and Gothic Revival architecture.<ref name=Ivchenko/> The house stayed in the family until four years after the October Revolution when it was nationalised in 1921 and converted into a museum.<ref name=inua/>

A statue of Prince Vorontsov was unveiled in Odesa in 1863. On 11 November 2023 the monumental status of this sculpture was scrapped in order to comply with 2023 derussification-laws.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In front of the statue stands the Transfiguration Cathedral with the marble tombs of Prince Vorontsov and his wife. After the Soviets demolished the cathedral in 1936, Vorontsov's remains were secretly reburied in a local cemetery.Template:Citation needed The cathedral was rebuilt in the early 2000s. The remains of Vorontsov and his wife were solemnly transferred to the church in 2005.

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