Fyodor Rostopchin
Fyodor Rostopchin | |
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| Фёдор Ростопчин | |
Portrait by Salvatore Tonci | |
| Governor-General of Moscow | |
| In office 24 May [O.S. 12 May] 1812 – 11 September [O.S. 30 August] 1814 | |
| Preceded by | Ivan Gudovich |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Tormasov |
| President of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 17 April [O.S. 6 April] 1799 – 4 March [O.S. 20 February] 1801 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander Bezborodko |
| Succeeded by | Nikita Panin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Fyodor Vasilievich Rostopchin 23 March 1763 |
| Died | 30 January 1826 (aged 62) Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Spouse | Yekaterina Rostopchina |
| Children | 8 |
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Count Fyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin (23 March [O.S. 12 March] 1763 – 30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1826) was a Russian statesman and General of the Infantry who served as the Governor-General of Moscow during the French invasion of Russia, when he was responsible for the fire of Moscow in order to prevent the French from occupying this city. He was disgraced shortly after the Congress of Vienna, to which he had accompanied Tsar Alexander I. He appears as a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace, in which he is presented very unfavorably.