Count Vorontsov, Mikhail Semyonovich

Count, from 1845 Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (1782-1856) - Russian statesman from the Vorontsov family, Field Marshal General (1856), Adjutant General (1815), hero of the war of 1812. In the Patriotic War of 1812, Vorontsov was at first in the army Prince Bagration, took part in the battle near Smolensk.

In the battle of Borodino, Vorontsov commanded the 2nd Combined Grenadier Division, which was the first to take over the attacks on the Bagrationov flashes, and received a wound in a bayonet battle, which forced him to leave the ranks of the troops, and his division practically ceased to exist. In 1815-18. commander of the Russian occupation corps in France. In 1823-44. Novorossiysk and Bessarabian Governor-General; in this position he contributed a lot to the economic development of the region, the construction of Odessa and other cities. The customer and the first owner of the Alupka Palace. In 1844-1854, the governor in the Caucasus. In the summer of 1855, Mikhail Semyonovich and his wife Elizaveta Ksaveryevna moved to St. Petersburg, and in August 1856, when the coronation of Alexander II took place in Moscow, the Grand Dukes came to Vorontsov, who was sick with the highest military rank is a field marshal general and a field marshal's baton decorated with diamonds. But he had just over two months to live. Brought by his wife to Odessa, the Most Serene Prince, who suffered especially in the last years from the attacks of fever that tormented him, died on November 6 from apoplexy at the age of 75. On November 9, 1863, a monument to Vorontsov was solemnly opened in Odessa, built with donations from citizens of the Russian Empire. The first contribution to the construction fund of the monument in the amount of three thousand rubles was made from his own funds by Emperor Alexander II.