politician
Feodor Rostopchin.
foreign minister of the Russian Empire and governor of Moscow (1763-1826)
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About Feodor Rostopchin
Count Fyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin was a Russian statesman and General of the Infantry who served as the Governor-General of Moscow during the French invasion of Russia, when he was responsible for the fire of Moscow in order to prevent the French from occupying this city. He was disgraced shortly after the Congress of Vienna, to which he had accompanied Tsar Alexander I. He appears as a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace, in which he is presented very unfavorably.
Everything about Feodor Rostopchin →- Occupation
- politician, military personnel, governor, foreign minister
- Position held
- President of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs, Q11836279, Hofmarschall, member of the State Council of the Russian Empire
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- March 12, 1763
- Died
- January 18, 1826