Quotes:Gorchakov, Prince Alexander Mihaylovich

Boris de Zirkoff

Gorchakov, Prince Alexander Mihaylovich. Russian statesman, b. July 16, 1798; d. at Baden-Baden, March 11, 1883. Educated at the lyceum of Tsarskoye Selo. Entered foreign office under Count Nesselrode. When German confederation was re-established in 1850, he was appointed Russian minister to the Diet and established close personal ties with Bismarck. Transferred to Vienna during the Crimean War. Appointed, 1856, minister of foreign affairs in place of Nesselrode. Became Chancellor and was, for a time, the most powerful minister in Europe. At the congress of Berlin, 1878, at the end of the Russo-Turkish campaign, the aged chancellor held nominally the post of first plenipotentiary, but left to Count Shuvalov the odium for the concessions which Russia had to make to Great Britain and Austria.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 464