Duke of Richelieu

Arman Emmanuel du Plessi, 5th Duke de Richelieo (1766? 1822), received the name Emmanuel Osipovich in Russia and was captured in bronze as Duke. The great -assigned nephew of the famous cardinal and the grandson of Marshal was forced to leave his homeland during revolutionary upheavals, a volunteer participated in the bloody assault on the Turkish fortress of Izmail, 24 years correctly served the "adoptive fatherland" - Russia, as a governor general fought with inertness, ignorance and bribery, so that in order to, so that in order to On the site of the seedy village, the flowering city of Odessa grew up. Returning to the ruined France, he, as the head of the government, led the exhausting cabinet battles for the independence and well -being of the country, but did not turn into a courtier and remained a “stranger among its”. His boundless ability to love was forced to huddle on the edge of a dream of personal happiness. The Russian emperor Alexander I called Duke the only friend who told him the truth, and the English Duke Wellington believed that the Word of Richelle is a treatise. " He wore a birth name with honor and took a worthy place in the history of France, Russia and Ukraine