Gonchakov biography

As part of the first set of students, he studied the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, together with A. Pushkin, A. Delvig, V. Kuchelbeker, I. At the age of 19, the young Gorchakov entered the diplomatic service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In gg. In April in April, Prince A. Gorchakov was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire. As head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he took up a change in the international situation and the correction of the depressing position of Russia in it after the Crimean war.

The main goal of the head of the foreign policy was a change in the conditions of the Paris world, and specifically the issue of neutralizing the Black Sea. To do this, he first went to converge with France, then with Prussia and by the year he achieved the abolition of the "neutrality of the Black Sea." For almost 26 years of stay in the post of head of the foreign policy, he restored and strengthened the international prestige of Russia.

It is A. Gorchakov that owns the famous phrase: "Russia is not angry, Russia is focused." It was contained in the circular dispatch sent by A. Gorchak embassies on August 21 In the original, in the language of diplomacy of the 19th century, it sounded as follows: "La Russian Ne Bouge Pas, Elle Se Recueille." Gorchakov seriously reformed the diplomatic service. He tried to make it more compact, effective, demanded from employees of professionalism, wide erudition, independence and independence of judgments.

In those years when the communications were very primitive, in foreign representatives they simply did not have the physical ability to coordinate each issue with the center, otherwise it was necessary to wait for the week, or even months. So the diplomats had to quickly navigate and independently make the right decisions. Gorchakov remained the last of the famous lyceum students, survived all his classmates.

After the Berlin Congress, G. died in Baden -Baden G. for his merits A. Gorchakov was awarded the highest honors, including the title of the brightest prince and the rank of the State Chancellor of the Russian Empire by the name of Gorchakov, the South Butovo street was named in Moscow, as well as the metro station - “Gorchakova Street” Butovskaya line. A bust has been installed on the two hundredth anniversary of his birth in the Alexander Garden of St.

Petersburg. In the year, the opening of an updated commemorative board in Haapsalu took place. In the year, a fund for supporting public diplomacy was established. Gorchakova, whose mission is s.