Gorchakov

[gawr-chuh-kawf, -kof, guhr-chyi-kawf]

noun

1. Prince Aleksander Mikhailovich 1798–1883, Russian diplomat and statesman.

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The new document reflected Mr. Putin’s preoccupation with Russian history: its title, “Russia Gathers Its Strength,” is the name of an 1856 report written by the czarist statesman Aleksandr Gorchakov.

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Gorchakov’s report laid out an imperial foreign policy of flexible alliances and relative isolation from European affairs that was driven largely by domestic considerations.

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Here he remained for six years, and, after serving as a minister in Switzerland and Sweden, he was appointed in 1875 director of the Eastern department and assistant minister for foreign affairs under Prince Gorchakov, whose niece he had married.

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M. de Giers was exactly what he wanted, and accordingly the tsar not only appointed him minister of foreign affairs on the retirement of Prince Gorchakov in 1882, but retained him to the end of his reign in 1894.

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Like his predecessor, Prince Gorchakov, he was educated at the lyceum of Tsarskoye Selo, near St Petersburg, but his career was much less rapid, because he had no influential protectors, and was handicapped by being a Protestant of Teutonic origin.

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