GORCHAKOV or GORTCHAKOFF, a noble Russian family, descended from Michael Vsevolodovich, prince of Chernigov, who, in 1246, was assassinated by the Mongols. PRINCE ANDREY IvANOVICH (1768-185 5 ), general in the Russian army, took a con spicuous part in the final campaigns against Napoleon. ALEXAN DER IvANOVICH (1769-1825) served with distinction under his relative Suvorov in the Turkish Wars, and took part as a general officer in the Italian and Swiss operations of 1799, and in the war against Napoleon in Poland in 1806-1807 (battle of Heilsberg) . PETR DMITRIEVICH (1790-1868) served under Kamenski and Kutusov in the campaign against Turkey, and afterwards against France in 1813-14. In 182o he suppressed an insurrection in the Caucasus, for which service he was raised to the rank of major general. In 1828-29 he fought under Wittgenstein against the Turks, won an action at Aidos, and signed the treaty of peace at Adrianople. In 1839 he was made governor of Eastern Siberia, and in 1851 retired into private life. When the Crimean War broke out he offered his services to the emperor Nicholas, by whom he was appointed general of the VI. army corps in the Crimea. He commanded the corps in the battles of Alma and In kerman. He retired in 1855 and died at Moscow, on March 18, 1868. Other members of the family are separately noted.