Biography of Mikhail Vorontsov

The portrait of M. Vorontsov was born on May 30 in St. Petersburg, from where a one and a half year old child was taken to England, where his father served as a Russian ambassador. Young Mikhail received an excellent education thanks to the enlightened father, first -class tutors and teachers. Already in the adolescence, Mikhail Semenovich knew several European languages, as well as classic - Greek and Latin, while he was well in the Russian language.

The boy spent all his free time with books, since the house was a magnificent library. M. Vorontsov returned to St. Petersburg at the summer and immediately entered the service in the guard-the elite Preobrazhensky regiment. It goes to the Caucasus in the year. Here, the young count distinguished himself during the assault on the fortress of Ganja G. In the year of Vorontsov is awarded the title of Colonel.

Elizaveta Ksaverievna on August 26 in the Battle of Borodino Battle, Major General Vorontsov commands the division of grenadiers, which began the battle in the number of people and ended it as part, wounded in the leg. He distinguished himself in hostilities near Leipzig, Krakow, Paris. Vorontsova of the work of T. In the year M. In the year, Lieutenant General Vorontsov accepts the management of the Novorossiysk Territory in Chisinau and transfers the residence of the Governor General to Odessa.

He was accompanied by a group of single-minded officials who played a huge role in the transformation of Odessa into a truly cultural center of the Black Sea region. Vorontsov immediately directs efforts to improve the city. As a real strategist, he defines three main directions in this: paving streets, landscaping and construction. By the year, the main streets of Odessa were landscaped.

Primorsky Boulevard was built up and planted with trees during his reign. The Vorontsovs were donated from personal savings of 8 million to the development of Odessa. They created an orphanage, a hospital for the poor, the Alexander Children's Shelter, etc. Odessa city museum of antiquities, the Palace of Vorontsov, now the city palace of children's and youthful creativity, the architect F.

Bofffo, which is still named after the Empire, is built in the style of the Empire, which is even called the name of the Vorontsovsky. The palace is in honor of its first owner. Following this magnificent architectural monument on young Boulevard, beautiful houses grow. The areas for buildings were given for free, but with one condition - for five years they should have been mastered.

Already in the year, the household was handed over to the Count Pototsky subsequently this house was occupied by G. Portrait of Count M. Vorontsov, the work of E. Botman in the next year, the year Vorontsov presented the emperor with the general estimate of the development of Odessa. Mikhail Semenovich pays great attention to the public library that opened in the year - the second in Russia.

He gave her a collection of rare books from a personal library. It is with him that Odessa becomes the main seaport of the South of Russia. By the way, thanks to the efforts of Vorontsov, a lighthouse was installed on Cape Big Fountain. Vorontsova - a brilliantly educated person - ardently worried the issues of education. In gg. Vorontsov - the governor and commander in chief of Russian troops in the Caucasus, was erected in princely dignity in the year, and in the year he receives the title of the Serene.

In October, in connection with the disease, Mikhail Semenovich submits a resignation. The brightest prince died on November 18 in Odessa, he was buried with all honors in the Preobrazhensky Cathedral. In the year, a sculptor F. Bruger, architect F., was solemnly opened on Cathedral Square, in the year, in the year, during the barbaric destruction of the Preobrazhensky Cathedral, the remains of the Vorontsovs Elizaveta Ksaverevna died in the same time, were thrown out of the cathedral, the townspeople were buried in the Slobodsk cemetery.

In the year they are reburied in the revived Preobrazhensky Cathedral. The name of this great military leader and enlightener wears a lane and a lighthouse on a raid mol.