biography
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Gorchakov, Prince Alexander Michaelovich
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pronunciation:
[gaw(r)chakof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1798–1883)
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| biography:
| Russian statesman, born in Khaapsalu, W Estonia, the cousin of Prince Michael Gorchakov. He was ambassador at Vienna (1854–6), then succeeded Nesselrode as foreign minister. As chancellor of the empire (1863) he was, until the rise of Bismarck, the most powerful minister in Europe. He secured Austrian neutrality in the Franco-German War of 1870, and in 1871 absolved Russia from the Treaty of Paris (1856). After the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War, the repudiation of the Treaty of San Stefano, and the signing of the Treaty of Berlin, his influence began to wane, and he retired in 1882. |
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