On this day

May 27 (June 8) 1837, in St. Petersburg, in the family of the chief master of ceremonies of the Imperial Court was born Hilarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov, count, Russian statesman and military leader, entrepreneur, General of Cavalry (1890); a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire (1881), Chief state horse breeding, the Minister of the Imperial Court and the Chancellor of the Chapter of Russian Imperial and Royal Orders (1881-1897), viceroy of the Caucasus (1905).