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SEMEN ROMANOVICH See also:VORONTSOV (1744–1832) , See also:Russian diplomatist, See also:brother of See also:Alexander Romanovich, distinguished himself during the first See also:Turkish See also:War of See also:Catherine II. at Larga and Kagula in 1770. In 1783 he was appointed Russian See also:minister at See also:Vienna, but in 1785 was transferred to See also:London, where he lived for the See also:rest of his See also:life. Vorontsov enjoyed See also:great See also:influence and authority in Great See also:Britain. Quickly acquainting himself with the See also:genius of See also:English institutions, their ways and methods, he was able to render important services to his See also:country. Thus during Catherine's second Turkish War he contributed to bring about the disarmament of the See also:auxiliary See also:British See also:fleet which had been fitted out to assist the See also:Turks, and in 1793 obtained a renewal of the commercial treaty between Great Britain and See also:Russia. Subsequently, his extreme advocacy of the exiled Bourbons, his See also:sharp See also:criticism of the Armed See also:Neutrality of the See also:North, which he considered disadvantageous to Russia, and his denunciation of the partitions of See also:Poland as contrary to the first principles of See also:equity and a See also:shock to the See also:conscience of western See also:Europe, profoundly irritated
the empress. On the See also:accession of See also:Paul he was raised to the See also:rank of See also:ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, and received immense estates in See also:Finland. Neither Vorontsov's detention of the Russian See also:squadron under Makarov in British ports nor his refusal, after the See also:death of See also:Bezborodko, to accept the dignity of imperial See also:chancellor could alienate the favour of Paul. It was only when the See also:emperor himself began to draw nearer to See also:France that he began to consider Vorontsov as incompetent to serve Russia in See also:England, and in See also:February t800 all the See also:count's estates were confiscated. Alexander I. on his accession at once reinstated him, but See also:ill-See also:health and See also:family affairs induced him to resign his See also:post in r8o6. From that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time till his death in 1832 he continued to live in London.
Besides his valuable See also:Note on the Russian War (Rus.) and numerous letters, Vorontsov was the author of an autobiography (in Russky Arkhiv, See also:Petersburg, 1381) and " Notes on the See also:Internal See also:Government of Russia " (Rus.) (in Russky Arkhiv, 1881).
End of Article: SEMEN ROMANOVICH VORONTSOV (1744–1832)
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