Alexander Vorontsov (1741-1805). When he was twelve years old, Mikhail Vorontsov sent him, with Louis XV's permission, to study at the L'Ecole de Chevaux-légers at Versailles, and he remained in Paris for seven years. There he met representatives of the French Enlightenment and subsequently corresponded with Voltaire (1760-1769). After joining the diplomatic corps, he served as minister plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James in England and then to the Hague (1762-1768). Catherine II appointed him president of the College of Commerce, which he administrated for more then twenty years. For a short time during the reign of Alexander I he was imperial chancellor (1802-1804) and left an unfinished account of his life ("Zapiski o moei zhizni," Arkhiv kn. Vorontsova, book 5, pp. 1-87; Russkii arkhiv, 1883, vol., II, pp. 227-289.)