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MIKHAIL ILLARIONOVICH See also:VORONTSOV (1714-1767) , See also:Russian imperial See also:chancellor, was the first to become prominent. At the See also:age of fourteen he was appointed a Kammer See also:junker at the See also:court of the cesarevna See also:Elizabeth Petrovna, whom he
VORONTSOV
materially assisted during the famous coup d'etat of the 6th of See also:December 1741, when she mounted the Russian See also:throne on the shoulders of the Preobrazhensky Grenadiers. On the 3rd of See also:January 1742 he married See also:Anna Skavronskaya, the empress's See also:cousin; and in 1744 was created a See also:count and See also:vice-chancellor. His See also:jealousy of See also:Alexis Bestuzhev induced him to participate in Lestocq's See also:conspiracy against that statesman. The empress's See also:affection for him (she owed much to his skilful See also:pen and still more to the liberality of his See also:rich kinsfolk) saved him from the See also:fate of his accomplices, but he lived in a See also:state of semi-See also:eclipse during the domination of Bestuzhev (1744–1758). On the disgrace of Bestuzhev, Vorontsov was made imperial chancellor in his See also:stead. Though well-meaning and perfectly honest, Vorontsov as a politician was singularly timorous and irresolute, and always took his cue from the court. Thus, under Elizabeth he was an avowed enemy of See also:Prussia and a warm friend of See also:Austria and See also:France; yet he made no effort to prevent See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter III. from See also:reversing the policy of his predecessor. Yet he did not lack See also:personal courage, and endured See also:torture after the Revolution of the 9th of See also:July 1762 rather than betray his See also:late See also:master. He greatly disliked See also:Catherine II., and at first refused to serve under her, though she reinstated him in the dignity of chancellor. When he found that the real See also:control of See also:foreign affairs was in the hands of Nikita See also:Panin, he resigned his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office (1763). Vorontsov was a generous See also:protector of the nascent Russian literature, and, to See also:judge from his letters, was a highly cultivated See also:mai.
End of Article: MIKHAIL ILLARIONOVICH VORONTSOV (1714-1767)
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