Ivan Osterman
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Count Ivan Andreyevich Osterman was a Russian statesman and the son of Andrei Osterman.
Portrait by Per Krafft the Elder, 1773
Fyodor Rostopchin
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Count Fyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin 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 t
Ivan Osterman
…of foreign affairs of Imperial Russia, but would play only a secondary role in this post. His closest associates - Count Bezborodko, Prince Zubov, Fyodor Rostopchin - were the ones with real power, but they lacked the fluency in languages and oleaginous manner of address which Osterman was famed for. In 1796…
Portrait by Salvatore Tonci