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See also:ALEXANDER ROMANOVICH See also:VORONTSOV (1741–1805) , See also:Russian imperial See also:chancellor, See also:nephew of the preceding and son of See also:Count See also:Roman Vorontsov, began his career at the See also:age of fifteen in the Izmailovsky See also:regiment of the See also:Guards. In 1759, his kinsman, the See also:grand chancellor Mikhail Illarionovich, sent him to See also:Strassburg, See also:Paris and See also:Madrid to See also:train him in See also:diplomacy. Under See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter III. he represented See also:Russia for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time at the See also:court of St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's. See also:Catherine II. created him a senator and See also:president of the See also:Board of See also:Trade; but she never liked him, and ultimately (1791) compelled him to retire from public See also:life. In 18o2 Alexander I. summoned him back to See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office and appointed him imperial chancellor. This was the See also:period of the See also:triumph of the Vorontsovs, who had always insisted on the See also:necessity of a See also:close See also:union with See also:Austria and See also:Great See also:Britain, in opposition to See also:Panin and his followers, who had leaned on See also:France or See also:Prussia till the outbreak of the Revolution made friendship with France impossible. Vorontsov was also an implacable opponent of See also:Napoleon, whose " topsy-turvyness " he was never weary of denouncing. The rupture with Napoleon in 1803 is mainly attributable to him. He also took a leading See also:part in the See also:internal See also:administration and was in favour of a thorough reform of the See also:senate and the ministries. He retired in 1804. He possessed an extraordinary memory and a See also:firm and wide grasp of See also:history.
His " See also:Memoirs of my Own times " (Rus.) is printed in vol. vii. of the Vorontsov Archives.
End of Article: ALEXANDER ROMANOVICH VORONTSOV (1741–1805)
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