PRINCE MIKHAIL DMITRIEVICH (2795-186I)  , brother of the last named, entered the Russian army in 1807 and took part in the campaigns against Persia in 181o, and in 1812-1815 against France . During the Russo-Turkish War of 1828—x829 he was present at the sieges of Silistria and Shumla . After being appointed, in 183o, a general officer, he was present in the campaign in Poland, and was wounded at the battle of Grochow, on the 25th of February 1831 . He also distinguished himself at the battle of Ostrolenka and at the taking of Warsaw . For these services he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general . In 1846 he was nominated military governor of Warsaw . In 1849 he commanded the Russian artillery in the war against the Hungarians, and in 1852 he visited London as a representative of the Russian army at the funeral of the duke of Wellington . At this time he was chief of the staff of the Russian army and adjutant-general to the tsar . Upon Russia declaring war against Turkey in 1853, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the troops which occupied Moldavia and Wallachia . In 1854 he crossed the Danube and besieged Silistria, but was superseded in April by Prince Paskevich, who, however, resigned on the 8th of June, when Gorchakov resumed the command . In July the siege of Silistria was raised, and the Russian armies recrossed the Danube; in August they withdrew to Russia . In 1855 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in the Crimea in place of Prince Menshikov .

Gorchakov's

defence of Sevastopol, and final retreat to the northern part of the town, which he continued to defend till peace was signed in Paris, were conducted with skill and energy . In 1856 he was appointed governor-general of Poland in succession to Prince Paskevich . He died at Warsaw on the 3oth of May 1861, and was buried, in accordance with his own wish, at Sevastopol .