19 (30) May 1782 in St. Petersburg was born Mikhail S. Vorontsov, Russian statesman and military leader, His Serene Highness Prince (1852), Field Marshal (1856), Novorossiysk and Bessarabian Governor-General (1823-1844), Governor of the Caucasus (1844-1854), member of the State Council of the Russian Empire, an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, nephew of Duchess E. Dashkova.