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Semyon Vorontsov

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Quickly acquainting himself with the characteristics of English institutions, with their ways and methods, he was able to render important services to his country. Thus, during the second
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ways and was an eminent commander in the war against Napoleon and in the Russian subjugation of the Caucasus, for which he was further ennobled as a Russian Prince.
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family. He resided in Britain for the last 47 years of his life, from 1785 until his death in 1832, during which time he was the Russian ambassador to the
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noted in his diary on 3 December 1829, ”Old Woronzow was Ambassador here many years, has lived here ever since, and never learnt a word of English.”
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Vorontsov's parents were Roman Larionovich Vorontsov (1717–1783) and Marfa Ivanovna Surmina (1718–1745). Among his siblings were Imperial Chancellor
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on his accession in 1801 at once reinstated him, but ill health and family affairs induced him to resign his post in 1806.
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vault in Marylebone, London, and the street where he resided in St. John's Wood, London, is now called Woronzow Road.
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From his resignation as Ambassador in 1806 until his death in 1832, he continued to live in London.
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to notify him of the death of Catherine the Great and Paul's accession. It was only when the
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Through his daughter Catherine, he was a grandfather of Lady Elizabeth Herbert (who married
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could alienate the favor of Paul. On 28 December 1796, Vorontsov had a private audience of
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from 1787 to 1792, he contributed to bring about the disarmament of the auxiliary
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as contrary to the first principles of equity and a shock to the conscience of
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extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and was awarded immense estates in
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Vorontsov married Ekaterina Alekseevna Seniavina (1761–1784), a daughter of
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and Anna von Bradké. Before her death in 1784, they were the parents of:
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and numerous letters, Vorontsov was the author of an autobiography and
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that he began to consider Vorontsov as incompetent to serve Russia in
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A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV
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Index

Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov
Eastern Slavic naming customs
patronymic
family name
Vorontsov

Sir Thomas Lawrence
Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Yakov Smirnov
Chargé d'affaires
Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov
Chargé d'affaires
Russian Minister
Vienna
London
Alexander Vorontsov
Elizaveta Vorontsova
Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov
Catherine Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Russian
diplomat
Vorontsov
Kingdom of Great Britain
United Kingdom
Alexander Vorontsov
Elizaveta Vorontsova
Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
Catherine the Great

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