Fyodor Rostopchin

Count Feodor Vasilievich Rostopchin (Russian Фёдор Васильевич Ростопчин, scientific transliteration Fedor Vasil'evič Rostopčin; * 12 Märzjul / March 23 1763greg in Kosmodemjanskoje, Oryol Province, .. † 18 Januarjul / January 30 1826greg in Moscow.. ) was a general of the Russian tsarist army and minister.

Life

He joined as a lieutenant in the Imperial Guard, was in 1796 by Emperor Paul, in which he possessed great influence, promoted to General, Lord Marshal and Minister of Foreign Affairs and in September 1799 the Russian Empire Count, but fell because of his opposition to the decision taken by the Emperor Alliance with France in January 1801 in favor.

After he was only in 1810 resigned as Lord Chamberlain returned to service, he received shortly before the outbreak of the War of 1812 the post of commander in chief of Moscow, was attracted in proclamations and speeches for the people to acts of violence against foreigners, and sketched the plan of the fire of Moscow, after he had put in his own palace at Moscow ash.

Although he denied this in the magazine La vérité sur l' incendie de Moscou, but later confessed his participation in the fire one. 1814 Rostopchin accompanied the Emperor Alexander I to the Congress of Vienna; In 1817 he visited Carlsbad, lived on this for several years in Paris and died on January 30, 1826 in Moscow. His collected works in Russian and French, including two comedies, comments on a journey through Germany and the Mémoires Écrits en dix minutes were edited by Smirdin (Petersburg 1853).

Rostoptschins daughter, the Countess Evdokiya Petrovna Rostoptschina ( born Suschkowa; * 1811; . † 3./15 December 1858 ) became famous as a poet. A complete edition of her writings appeared in Petersburg and Leipzig 1857-60 in four volumes.