Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov [SEP] occupation
Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov
Count Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov () (12 July 171415 February 1767) was a Russian statesman and diplomat, who laid foundations for the fortunes of the Vorontsov family.
At the age of fourteen, Vorontsov was appointed a kammerjunker at the court of the tsesarevna Yelizaveta Petrovna, whom he materially assisted during the famous coup d'etat of 6 December 1741, when she mounted the Russian throne on the shoulders of the Preobrazhensky Grenadiers. On 3 January 1742 Vorontsov married countess Anna Karlovna Skavronskaya, the empress's maternal first
"Memoirs of My Own Times" is printed in vol. VII of the "Vorontsov Archives".
Family members.
- Vorontsov - his family
- Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov - his uncle
- Ekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova - his sister
- Elizaveta Vorontsova - his sister
- Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov - his brother
- Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov - his nephew.
External links.
- Online Museum of the Vorontsov Family