GORTS*CRAKOPF, a Russian family, traces its ancestry through St. Michael of Tscher nigoff (b. 1246) to Rurik and Vladimir the great.—PRINCE PETER Gortschakoff, gov ernor of Smolensk, defended that town two years (1609-11) against Sigismund of Poland, when it was taken by storm.—PRINCE DIMITRI Gortschakoff, born 1756, was a celebrated Russian poet, and wrote odes, satires, and epistles. He died 1824.—PRINCE ALEXANDER Gortschakoff, born 1764, served under his uncle Suwarofft in Turkey and Poland, die played great courage at the capture of Praga (a suburb of Warsaw), and was made lieut.gen. in 1798. In the campaign of 1799 he commanded under Korsakoff at Zurich, was subsequently made military governor of Viborg, repulsed marshal Lannes at Heils burg, and commanded the right wing at the battle of Friedland. Appointed minister of war in 1812 he filled this post to the end of the War, when he was made gen. of infantry, and member of the imperial council. He died in 1825.—PRINCE ANDREAS Gortschakoff served in 1799 as =igen. under .Suwaroff in Italy; and commanded a
division of grenadiers at Borodino, in 1812, where he was wounded. In the campaign of 1813-14 he commanded the first corps of Russian infantry, and distinguished himself at Leipsic and Paris. He was made gen. of infantry in 1819, and in 1828 retired from active service.—PuiNcE PETER Gortschakoff was borfi in 1790. Having made the cam paigns of 1813 and 1814 he served in Caucasia under gen. Yermoloff. As chief of the general staff of Wittgenstein in 1826 he was one of the signers of the treaty of Adrian ople. In 1839 he was appointed governor-general of eastern Siberia, and occupied that important post until, in 1851, he retired from active life. On the outbreak of the Cri mean war, however, he offered his services, which were accepted; and at the battle of the Alma he commanded the left wing of the Russians. He also took part in the battle of Inkertnaun. He died in 1868.