New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-10

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nearly related to the other Prince Gorch .kof'
who commanded on the Danube last summer, aud
of whom we some time since gave "a account.
They both belong to one Of the moot emineat
families of Rnitis, once Independent rulers in
the dpktdom of Smolensk, and tracing their orr
Gin not to the Norman or Vasegue, but 10 the
native Slavic stock. The father Of Alex ander,
a Senator. left him q very reduced p.xmony.
He was educsted at the Lyceum Of rsarskoe
SeIo a celebrated ccu1try residence OF the Cars.
This school Wis q pet establishment Of the En-
peror Alexander, where the youth of the first
nobility were iDstruc ed in the various literary
and scentic brsnches, iDd trained to be accom-
rli.hed gentle mep. 1t was nursery FOE states
men and diplomas, and most Of the eminent men
of Russia Of tie age OF Goich ,kof have oesn
educated there-smopg them Pasnkiu, the csle-
br,ted poet. This generation marked the transit
ton from the abst lutte subservencS to French
Models ss idolized by Catherine H., to q more
ns,iopsl AID genuine breeding. and may date
from 1870.
The young Gorchakoff having finished his stud
les in the Ly ceum, instantly entered the service
of the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs aud on the oc-
cason Of the celebrated Congress Of veroca, was
joined to the Secretarysb attached to Alexander
Ne,selrode al Capo dIstris. Az this congre5a-
ton Of crowned e,ds and refined diplomats
Gorchakoff was repeatedly intrusted with writing
the protocols Of the conferences, which were msde
il the French language. He acquitted himself Of
this rather difficult task with such cOnsummate
sbIl that Cbateaubrand who represented France,
and tuperintended the Secretarysbp congrstu.
lated Alexander on possessing . young mau Of
such remarkable talent as an elegant precise, and
clear diplomatic writer. GOr,hskof after this
became fayorite with Alexander, and WAS
made the second Secretary Of she Imperial 3ls-
sion in London, then under the direction of Cant
Leven, or rather tina. of his wife, still in so miay
ways celebrated as the Princess de Leven. Ola
very handsome and prepossessing personal ap-
pesrsnce, the youIg and ambitious aspirant be-
came great favOrite with the Princess, as well
as with several other grandss danes Of the most
aristocratic and exclusive English society, and
won the denomination OF the beau ct Afgant diplo-
mate.
In the course of his diplomatic service he was
sent 10 Italy, where he was temporarily Charge
d'AfTaires at Florence. Soon after, he became
the fret Secretary Of the Legation in Vienns,
under the wellbnown Bailli rstishtsheff one of
the best but the most aosoutist of Russian di plO
matt, aid was intrusted by him with the more
difficult snd secre. work Of the mission. AS the
Bsili was in very bsd health, Gorchakoh acted
often as Charge and thus was brought into close
and intimate contact with Prince Metternich and
other Austrian statesmen Of that epoch, as we'll
as with the Court and the Imperial family. In
one word, he was at home, in Vienna. Owing
TO family Misunderstanding between him and
bis chief Gorcbakof resigned his post previously
to the death Of Tatish.shef and went to st.
Petersburg Being thus rather on the shelf, but
esgerIy looking for new opening, he cultivated
the great art ofthe cOurtier-thst is, fattery to
oil influential and powerful persons.
When Baron Brunof, previously his junior in ser
vice was advanced from q minister at the petty
German Courts of Darmstadt and Stuttgart TO
LONDON GOrcbakofi slipped into his place, and
established bis residence at Stuttgart. In loi5
Nicholas, on his journey to Italy, with his wife
and bis daughter, the Grand Duchess Olga, so
celebrated for her beauty, passed through Vienna,
in the hope of realizing his dearest family scheme
that Of arranging a marriage between Olga aud
the Archduke stephen, subsequently the Pala-
tie Of Hungary. Foiledin this plan, and exaspera-
ted to the utmost the Car told knot ofd ploms-
fists and cour'ers about him at some stopping
place in the Tyrol, that he would marry his
daughter instantly to any small sovereign German
prince. Gorchakof, who had come fron SUIT
gard to meet his sovereign, at once suggested
for q husband the hereditary prince of Wdrtem.
berg. This being agreed to, he returned to
Stuttgart, soon after which the Prioce Of Wuttem-
berg joined the Russian Imperial family, and the
Alliance took pls,e. This marriage did not satisfy
the ambitious hopes of Gorchakoa, as he still
fingered ss minister to the Court ofStuttgard until
after the events Of lSi9, when he bee, anne minis
ter to tie German Diet.
The Turkish complication was more propitious
to bis expectations. Baron de Meyendorf, once
fsyorite Of the Gar. and a lumin.ry of Russian
diplomacy, bavipg fallen into disgrace, was re-
called from Vienns, and. as We have above
shown, most of the foremost Ru.siao diplomats
were overthrown by the pending events. Thus
an opening was made for those of the second
rank. and Gorchskof, accordingly, was sent to
Vienna, where be found himself upon old and tried
ground He is intensely ambitious, coo-h headed,
unpiincipled, egotistical, and insinuating, and
cOnsun mate diplomat in craft, shrewdness and
ability. Notwithstanding all this, he will have
to strain every nerve to cope with his opponents.
He has to deal with Count Buol, Lord John Rus.
ell and a snecisl Erenrh envoy not at namad