6 (18) April 1853 in the village of Gorno-Pokrovskoye, Bogorovich uyezd, Novgorod province, in the family of Lieutenant Colonel of Railway Engineers Corps was born Vladimir N. Kokovtsov, Russian statesman, Count (from 1914), Actual Privy Counsellor (1905). V. N. Kokovtsov served as a Senator (1900), the Secretary of State (1902-1904), a member of the State Council (1905-1917), Minister of Finance of the Russian Empire (1904-1914).