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Prince Mikhail Dmitriyevich Gorchakov

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Category: History & Society
Born:
1793
Died:
May 18 [May 30, New Style], 1861, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland] (aged 68)
Title / Office:
viceroy (1856-1861), Congress Kingdom of Poland
Role In:
Crimean War
Hungarian Revolution
Siege of Sevastopol
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Prince Mikhail Dmitriyevich Gorchakov (born 1793—died May 18 [May 30, New Style], 1861, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]) was a Russian military officer and statesman who played a major role in the Crimean War (1853–56) and served as the Russian viceroy in Poland (1856–61). Gorchakov gained his early military experience during the Russian campaign in Persia (1810), the invasion of Russia by Napoleon I (1812–14), and the sieges of Silistra and Shumla in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29. Soon after his appointment as a general officer in 1830, he was assigned to the Russian forces suppressing an insurrection ...(100 of 371 words)

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