Fyodor Rostopchin information

Count Fyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin (Russian: Фёдор Васильевич Ростопчин) (23 March [O.S. 12 March] 1763 – 30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1826) was a Russian...

Rostopchin or Rostopchina is the name of: Fyodor Rostopchin (1763–1826), Russian statesman Catherine Rostopchin (1776–1859), Russian writer, wife of Fyodor...

for the French, as the Russians—most likely on orders of governor Fyodor Rostopchin—set much of the city on fire in a scorched earth tactic (though the...

September 1859) was a Russian aristocrat and writer. She was married to Fyodor Rostopchin, who served as governor of Moscow during the French Invasion of Russia...

to discover it deserted, and set ablaze by its military governor Fyodor Rostopchin. Remaining in Moscow for five weeks, Napoleon awaited a peace proposal...

contradictory instructions on how to either flee or fight. Count Fyodor Rostopchin, the commander in chief of Moscow, is publishing posters, rousing...

this post. His closest associates - Count Bezborodko, Prince Zubov, Fyodor Rostopchin - were the ones with real power, but they lacked the fluency in languages...

was calculated on the basis of data published in 1813 by order of Fyodor Rostopchin. The calculations are based on the Swiss adventurer Alexander Schmidt's...

Glinka. It was sponsored by the minister and adjutant general Count Fyodor Rostopchin and its orientation classified as patriotic monarchist. The second...

from the prisons to inconvenience the French; the governor, Count Fyodor Rostopchin, ordered the city to be burnt. Alexander I refused to capitulate,...

The Russians had evacuated the city, and the city's governor, Count Fyodor Rostopchin, ordered several strategic points in Moscow to be set ablaze. The...

includes a letter from the sovereign Emperor Alexander I to Count Fyodor Rostopchin concerning the balloon. French Emperor Napoleon III employed a corps...

member of the State Council. On 30 August 1814 he succeeded Count Fyodor Rostopchin as Governor-general of the Moscow Governorate. Two years later he...

in Russia. 16 September 1812, 19th bulletin: The Russian Governor Fyodor Rostopchin had sent off all the firemen with the fire engines and ordered on...

the Governor-General of New Russia (Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty). As Fyodor Rostopchin reported to Semyon Vorontsov on August 20, 1795, "Count Zubov is everything...

feared and hated." Paul's Grand Marshal, Fyodor Rostopchin, blamed Paul's advisors rather than the emperor. Rostopchin later wrote that he was "surrounded...

be allowed to kept her Russian Orthodox faith. In October, Count Fyodor Rostopchin wrote: Believe me, that's not good started to strengthen the alliance...

of Maremyana Babrovna Nabatova (“News, or the Living Murdered” by Fyodor Rostopchin), Anfisa Nilovna Khlestova (“Woe from Wit” by Alexander Griboyedov)...

introduction into high society, where he became a good friend of Count Fyodor Rostopchin. The union produced two daughters; Sofia, who died at the age of nine...

Moscow, which is deliberately set on fire by Muscovites, on orders of Fyodor Rostopchin. Later accounts report that France lost 40,000 troops during four...

(1804–1806) Timofei Tutolmin (1806–1809) Ivan Gudovich (1809–1812) Fyodor Rostopchin (1812–1814) Alexander Tormasov (1814–1819) Dmitry Golitsyn (1820–1844)...

fire of Moscow (1812), gave details on the looting French soldiers, Fyodor Rostopchin and Armand de Caulaincourt, and performed before Napoleon during the...

Vyaziomy. Here Mikhail Kutuzov wrote a number of orders and letters to Fyodor Rostopchin and organized the withdrawal from Moscow. On 12 September [O.S. 31...