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Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)

  • Fyodor RostopchinFyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin was born in the Kosmodemyanskoe village, now part of the Livensky District in Oryol Oblast.
  • Vladimir VernadskyVladimir Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on the 12th of March 1863. His father Ivan Vernadsky served as a professor of political…
  • Mikhail KutuzovMikhail Kutuzov was born in Saint Petersburg on the 16th of September 1745. His father served for thirty years with the Corps of Engineers and saw action…
  • Michael Andreas Barclay de TollyMichael Andreas Barclay de Tolly entered the world in 1761 within the Polish, Lithuanian Commonwealth. His family belonged to a Baltic German lineage that…
  • Gavrila DerzhavinGavrila Romanovich Derzhavin entered the world on the 14th of July 1743 within the Kazan Governorate. His family belonged to a landed but impoverished branch…