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See also: Russian statesman, See also: cousin of Princes Petr and Mikhail See also: Gorchakov, was See also: born on the 16th of See also: July 5798, and was educated at the See also: lyceum of Tsarskoye Selo, where he had the poet See also: Pushkin as a school-See also: fellow
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He became a See also: good classical See also: scholar, and learnt to speak and write in French with facility and elegance
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Pushkin in one of his poems described See also: young Gorchakov as " See also: Fortune's favoured son," and predicted his success
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On leaving the lyceum Gorchakov entered the See also: foreign office under Count Nesselrode
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His first See also: diplomatic See also: work of importance was the negotiation of a See also: marriage between the See also: grand duchess See also: Olga and the See also: crown See also: prince See also: Charles of
See also: Wurttemberg
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He remained at See also: Stuttgart for some years as Russian See also: minister and confidential adviser of the crown princess
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He foretold the outbreak of the revolutionary spirit in See also: Germany and See also: Austria, and was credited with counselling the abdication of See also: Ferdinand in favour of
See also: Francis See also: Joseph
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When the See also: German confederation was re-established in 185o in place of the parliament of See also: Frankfort, Gorchakov was appointed Russian minister to the See also: diet
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It was here that he first met Prince Bismarck, with whom he formed a friendship which was after-wards renewed at St See also: Petersburg
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The emperor See also: Nicholas found that his ambassador at Vienna, Baron Meyendorff, was not a sympathetic instrument for carrying out his schemes in the See also: East
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He therefore transferred Gorchakov to Vienna, where the latter remained through the critical See also: period of the See also: Crimean War
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The DIVISION has an See also: area of 9534 sq. m
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The population in 1901 was 6,333,012, giving anSee also: average See also: density of 664 persons per sq. m., being more than one to every See also: acre, and the highest for any large See also: tract in See also: India
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