GORCHAKOV, PRINCE MIKHAIL DMITRIEVICH (1795- I 861) , served in the campaigns against Persia in 181 o, and in 1812-15 against France. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1828 29 he was present at the sieges of Silistria and Shumla. After being appointed, in 183o, a general officer, he was present in the cam paign in Poland, and was wounded at the battle of Grochow Feb. 25 (1831) . He also distinguished himself at the battle of Ostro lenka and at the taking of Warsaw. In 1846 he was norninated military governor of Warsaw. In 1849 he commanded the Russian artillery in the war against the Hungarians, and in 1852 he visited London as the representative of the Russian army at the funeral of the duke of Wellington. At this time he was chief of the staff of the Russian army and adjutant-general to the tsar. Upon Rus sia declaring war against Turkey in 1853, he was appointed com mander-in-chief of the troops which occupied Moldavia and Wal lachia. In 1854 he crossed the Danube and besieged Silistria, but was superseded in April by Prince Paskevich, who, however, re signed on June 8, when Gorchakov resumed the command. In July the siege of Silistria was raised, and the Russian armies re crossed the Danube; in August they withdrew to Russia. In he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in the Crimea in place of Prince Menshikov. Gorchakov's defence of Sevastopol, and final retreat to the northern part of the town, which he continued to defend till peace was signed in Paris, were conducted with skill and energy. In 1856 he was appointed gov ernor-general of Poland in succession to Prince Paskevich. He died at Warsaw on May 3o, 1861, and was buried, in accordance with his own wish, at Sevastopol.