Fyodor Rostopchin

Fyodor Rostopchin
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 byIvan Gudovich
Succeeded byAlexander 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 byAlexander Bezborodko
Succeeded byNikita Panin
Personal details
Born
Fyodor Vasilievich Rostopchin

(1763-03-23)23 March 1763
Kosmodemyanskoe village, Livensky uezd, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire
Died30 January 1826(1826-01-30) (aged 62)
Moscow, Russian Empire
SpouseYekaterina Rostopchina
Children8

Count Fyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin (Russian: Фёдор Васильевич Ростопчин) (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. 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.