New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-12

stood prominent among the srlstocracy Hui'pc'
and ~ no WAS known As an eminent man an ong mo
statesmen and generals of Russia, and also asa
connection by marriage of the noble family oil 'ns
Herberts Lords Pembroke, the sister OF the Prlnce
being mother of Sidney Herbert. Prince Woron-
zoff was of wealthy and influential family; he
WAS born in 1872. Soon after his birth his father
was sent by Cathsrine III. as her ambassador to
England. where, at the beginning of the Pren'h
Revolution. be- in conjunction with Earl Granvula
and other English statesmen, organized the VARIOUS
coalitions against Napoleon and the French Ia hn-
GLAND the ambassador educated his son and married
his daughter. The young Woronzoff in lSOl entered
the military service and received his baptism
IN the wars against the mountaineers Of the Can.
casus. As young and gallant officer, he sftersard
fought several years against the Turks IN bessara'
bis, and finally commanded with distinction d.
visions of the Russian army in the campaigns
against Napoleon in 1Sl2-4. After the second ex'
pusion of the great disturber, from 1919 TO 1915,
Woronzof commanded the Russian troops belong
ing TO the allied army occupying France under the
leadership Of the Duke of Wellington. The Con
gross of Aix-la. Cbapelle in 1918, in which Worou
zoff participated, put an end to the occupation He
returned TO Russia and became Governor.Generd
of Bessarabs, Odessa and the Crimea. La 1926 he
participated in the negotiations OF Alderman with
the Porte, took part in the succeeding war, aud
partially directed the siege of Warna.
As administrator of the aforementioned parts
of Southern Russia, WoronzOff displayed great
ability. He devoted himself to facilitating and ex.
tending the commerce of the City of Odessa. lie
embelished it with various edifces; among Others
with spenid palace for himself in a commanding
situation over the haIbOr-a palace which the En-
psh wantonly attempted to destroy during the
bombardmeDt of the barbor at the beginning OF the
last war. Possessor of princely fortune, Woron'
zof spent it layishly. His residence at Odessa TO
sembled court of Satrap of the nineteenth ceu'
fury. Several other noble Russian families were
attracted by bis splendor, and soon Odessa became
noted not only for its commerce butfor various social
amenities. 1t was a Russian Capua. The extern
siye region under the administration OF Woronzon,
which was mostly fertile but uncultiyatod soil
| tude soon showed the fruits Of bis activity. He
encouraged various cultures congenial to the climate
| and the SOIL Under his direction and care various
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cultivated on that strip of its shores which has be-
| come celebrated as the theater of the last war.
Miles Of vineyards, dotted with beautiful villas,
along the coast on both sides of SevastOpol, now lie
| in ruins, destroyed by the besiegDg Allies. Among
these villas the most beautiful one very paradise in
| situation, and in architecture q model Of taste,
was Halupks which was erected by the Count
WoroDzof, with an elegance which drew from tho
deceased Emperor Nicholas at one of his visits 10
SeyastopoI, the exclamation: 81 could not have
built such lock house," such being the signf'
cation in the Little Russian dialect of the word
haupks, the name selected by the prodigal satrap
| for bis family abode.
Between 1910 and '43 the Russian forces were
unsuccessful against Schamyl in the Caucasus;
disorder prevailed in the army and in the inter
| nal administration Of the Caucasian regions. All
this urgently demanded powerful, active and ener'
petc hand and Nicholas asked Woronzof to as
sumo the command. WorOnzof, whose ambition
would Lot have led him beyond his pleasant slsua'
ton in Odessa, refused, but the Car sad elf you
"dO not 20 to the Caucasus | must WoroDzon,
with noble devotion to his country and sove'
reign, instantly abandoned his Odessisn luxury,
took the proffered command, with powers
Of alter sgo For years he coIb,ted
Scbsmyl with some success, destroyed several Of
his aous or mountain Businesses, and obliged him 10
retire further and further into the rocky gorgss.
In several rencounters Woronzof, surrounded BY
enemies. fought hand band as commander, sad
there received wound in the same regions where.
forty years before he began his military career.
During this, his Caucasian career, he was created
| a Prince. In the last war be defended the Trsn,-
| Caucasian tOmiDOns sgsinst the Turkish invasion,
and won The battle Of Baseh- Kadyklor. His ad.
vanced age and failing health obliged him to rot RI
from active service and toward the end of 1854 hs
resigned bis post.
WoronzoH, proud aristoerat had all the urban.
ity and polish of manners of that class He bad 9
leaning toward certain liberalism, and Odessa
under bis administration enjoyed liberty unknowa
elsewhere in Russia. He wss the leader of small
and of Russian grsndees, who desired TO create
House of Peers in Russia similar to that Of En-
gland He was generally called the Russas Milford,
although the great Russian poet, Puschkize, eXied
in bis youth to Odessa by Alexander l.. and put
| under the care and control Of Woronzok in one Of
BIS biting epigrsms, calls the Prince h,f grandss.
| half MILFORD, half a merchant and half a scamp;
| adding, There is hope that WoIoBzoH will BE-
:" come full rascal"
| a. OcDti l. i'm fair MI