Prince Peter Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1790–1868) served under Mikhail Kamensky and Mikhail Kutuzov in the campaign against Turkey, and afterwards against France in 1813–1814.
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At first he steered the country towards an alliance with Napoleon III, but, rebuffed by the latter's support of the January Uprising, joined his archrival Otto von Bismarck in setting up the League of the Three Emperors.
Gorchakov distinguished himself in campaigns of 1789 (at Akerman and Bender) and of 1790.
When the German Confederation was re-established in 1850 in place of the parliament of Frankfurt, Gorchakov was appointed Russian minister to the diet.
In 1936 Goncharov enrolled into the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, first the actor’s class of V.O.Toporkov, then moved to the directors’ group led by Nikolai Gorchakov.
Tellingly, in 1828 amidst the The Gabrieliad scandal, Pushkin tried to ascribe his "dirty" poem to Prince Gorchakov, then four years dead, trying to exploit the latter's reputation as the early 1800s Russia's major volnodumetz ("a free-thinking man").
Gorchakov demonstrated bravery during the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, on 29 May 1829 he was one of the first to swim across the Danube.
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In 1854 he crossed the Danube and besieged Silistra, but was superseded in April by Prince Ivan Paskevich, who, however, resigned on June 8, when Gorchakov resumed the command.
In August 1800, Essen was appointed military governor of Vyborg, Finland, and chief of the garrison of the Gorchakov Vyborg regiment.