Spiritual Affairs of the State Council (until 1819). From 1817-1818 Count Viktor Kochubey lived in Paris. He was second appointed Minister of the Interior on November 4, 1819. On August 30, 1821, he received a St. Andrew's star. In the same year, the emperor ordered to move to the semicircular square in front of his tsarist palace cast-iron gates with the inscription A mes chers compagnons d'armes ('To my beloved colleagues'). In 1819, Kochubey purchased a plot on the banks of the Fontanka from Prince Lobanov-Rostovsky and ordered the architect Montferran to build a mansion for his family. At the entrances and amateur performances in this house, there was the best of the capitalist society. At the Carnival of 1827, M. I. Glinka sang here the women's part of Don Giovanni. The Kochubeyev Balls entered the proverb, where the entire highest aristocracy, as well as the imperial family, gathered on them. On July 28 (August 9) 1821, Emperor Alexander I was established by the Siberian Committee and V. P. Kochubey became its first chairman. During the four years in which Kochubey was running the ministry, the Department of Commerce and Manufacturers, to whom he was most interested, was removed from its membership, then the management of the communications routes was removed. Meanwhile, Kochubey was not happy about joining the functions of the former police ministry, as he was not involved in the investigation. Having surrendered the ministry's management on February 25, 1823 (officially removed from office on June 28, 1823), Kochubey turned his attention to his youngest daughter's illness. After hearing the advice of doctors, the dignitary decided to take her not to foreign waters, but to the south of Russia, to Theodosia, which was then a wonder. With the onset of spring from St. Petersburg, he set off on the way with water, canals, then on the Volga descended to Tsaritsyn, from there he reached the Don on horseback and then again with water to Crimea; he spent the winter in Odessa. Chancellor of Russia and Death Notes and References 1768 births 1834 deaths Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire Counts of the Russian Empire Foreign ministers of the Russian Empire Chancellors of the Russian Empire Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) Russian people of Ukrainian descent Burials at Lazarevskoe Cemetery (Saint Petersburg) Burials at the Dukhovskaya Church Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire Russian