According to the plan of the German general Karl Ludwig von Phull, the Russian troops under the command of Count Michael Barclay de Tolly had to face the Grande Armée at Vilnius region, the remaining troops under general Pyotr Bagration would launch an attack to the French's southern flank and rear.

Left to right: Prince Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirskii, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia and Count Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov in 1877

* 1775 — Zadunaisky (" Transdanubian ") for Count Pyotr Rumyantsev for his crossing the Danube during the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 ;

General Carl Heinrich von Wedel, the commander of the Prussian army of 28, 000 men, unwisely attacked a larger Russian army of 47, 000 men commanded by Count Pyotr Saltykov, and was defeated.

* Count Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov ( 1866 – 1874 )

However the first prototype Gyrocar, The Schilovski Gyrocar, was commissioned in 1912 by the Russian Count Pyotr Shilovsky, a lawyer and member of the Russian royal family.

In response, Interior Minister Count Pyotr Valuyev issued a decree through an internal document circulated to the censors on 18 July 1863.

Later expeditions to explore the North East Passage took place in the 1760s ( Vasiliy Chichagov ), 1785 – 95 ( Joseph Billings and Gavril Sarychev ), the 1820s and 1830s ( Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, Pyotr Fyodorovich Anjou, Count Fyodor Litke and others ).

During his career he was sometimes at odds with another Corps of Pages alumnus, Count Pyotr Shuvalov.

As the war which he had done so much to bring about did not eventually secure for Russia advantages commensurate with the sacrifices involved, he fell into disfavour with Alexander II in part due to efforts of Count Pyotr Shuvalov, and retired from active service.

Soon thereafter the Treaty of San Stefano was revised through the Treaty of Berlin, 1878, signed on Russia behalf by Count Pyotr Shuvalov.

Soon thereafter she was taken from her family to serve as a chambermaid to Princess Martha Dolgorukaya, a relative of her master, Count Pyotr Sheremetev, who lived in the manor house.

Blessed with a fine voice, Praskovia was trained to be a singer in the opera company then being put together by Count Pyotr and his son, Nikolai Sheremetev.

Count Pyotr Ivanovich Shuvalov ( Петр Иванович Шувалов ; 1710 – 1762 ) was a Russian statesman and Field Marshal who, together with his brother Aleksandr Shuvalov, paved the way for the elevation of the Shuvalov family to the highest offices of the Russian Empire.

Count Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov ( граф Пётр Андреевич Шувалов ) ( 1827 – 1889 ) was an influential Russian statesman and a counselor to Tsar Alexander II.

In 1718 his daughter married Count Pyotr Pyotrovich Tolstoy, the son of Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy ( a prominent Russian statesman ) and Ivan Skoropadsky was granted numerous estates in Ukraine becoming its largest land-owner.

Carr contended that those who engaged in counter-factual speculations about Russian history, such as if Count Pyotr Stolypin's land reforms were given enough time, would the Russian Revolution have been prevented, were those who were uncomfortable about the fact that the Bolsheviks were the " winners " of Russian history and their opponents were not.

On 12 August 1759 at the Battle of Kunersdorf, the Prussian Army of King Frederick II was destroyed by the united Russian and Austrian forces under Count Pyotr Saltykov.

Military governor of Saint Petersburg, Count Miloradovich, was fatally wounded by Pyotr Kakhovsky.

Count Pyotr Semyonovich Saltykov () ( 1697 – 1772 ) was a Russian statesman and a military figure, russian general-fieldmarshal ( 18 August 1759 ), son of Semyon Saltykov.

** Count Pyotr Saltykov ( 1698-1772 ), Russian statesman, son of Semyon

* Count Arseni Andreyevich Zakrevski ( 1824 – 1831 )

Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy () ( March 13, 1823 – May 7, 1889 ) was a Russian statesman, a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia ( 1866 ).

Count Alexey Andreyevich Arakcheyev or Arakcheev () ( – ) was a Russian general and statesman under the reign of Alexander I.

Count Paul Andreyevich Shuvalov ( 1830-1908 ) was a Russian statesman and the brother of Count Peter Shuvalov.

Other authors of the Gogol's era included Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky ( The Living Corpse, written 1838, published 1844, The Ghost, The Sylphide, and other stories ), Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ( The Family of the Vourdalak, 1839, and The Vampire, 1841 ), Mikhail Zagoskin ( Unexpected Guests ), Józef Sękowski / Osip Senkovsky ( Antar ), Yevgeny Baratynsky ( The Ring ).

The Count Dmitry Tolstoy visited Russia's second most sacred religious site, Solovetsky Monastery ( near the White Sea ), in 1869 where he found the prison conditions to be repulsive.

The most famous of 19th-century Tolstoy politicians was Count Dmitri Andreevich ( 1823 – 89 ), successively the Minister of Education, Minister of Interior and President of the Academy of Science.

Count Feodor Petrovich Tolstoy ( 1783 – 1873 ), sympathetically mentioned by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin, was one of the most fashionable Russian drawers and painters of the 1820s.

Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy ( 1782 – 1846 ) was a notorious drunkard, gastronome, and duellist.

Count Lev Nikolaevich ( 1828 – 1910 ), more widely known abroad as Leo Tolstoy is acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of all time.

Count Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy ( 1883 – 1945 ) belonged to a different branch of the family.

* " The Family of the Vourdalak " by Count Alexis Tolstoy ( 1843 ).

Count Nikolai Tolstoy proposes that Brân's original function was that of a psychopomp, guiding the souls of the dead to the Otherworld.

Despite the revelations in O ' Brian's essay, O ' Brian's stepson Nikolai Tolstoy through O ' Brian's marriage to Mary Tolstoy disputes this, although he confirms that O ' Brian worked as a volunteer ambulance driver during the Blitz, where he met Mary, the separated wife of Russian-born nobleman and lawyer Count Dimitri Tolstoy.

In the 1920s, Russian expatriates Count Ilya Tolstoy ( son of author Leo Tolstoy ) and George Grebentschikoff founded an artists ' colony at one end of Main Street, known as Churaevka ( or " Russian Village ").

Russian Count Leo Tolstoy was a participant in the Battle of the Chernaya River.

* Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy wrote the supernatural love story Count Cagliostro where the Count brings to life a long dead Russian Princess, materializing her from her portrait.

Michael Wynne-Parker had been Principal Secretary from the late 1970s, and following the Marquess of Bristol's death also became the league's Acting Chancellor until 1987 when Count Nikolai Tolstoy was appointed to that position.

Left to right ; Christoper Arkell & Lord Nicholas Hervey ( standing ) Gregory Lauder-Frost ( speaking to Arkell ), Countess Georgina Tolstoy, Count Nikolai Tolstoy ( seated under picture ), unknown man, Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley | Lord Sudeley and John P Bullen Stean ( with glasses ) at a dinner on 12 March 1990, at London's United Oxford & Cambridge Club

The current Chancellor is Count Nikolai Tolstoy, the well-known historian, who took up the post in late 1987.

One exception to this is the work of Count Nikolai Tolstoy titled The Coming of the King.

Whereas his elder brother Peter Apraksin ( the governor of Astrakhan ) was accused of sympathizing with the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, Fyodor was eager to demonstrate his zeal in persecuting the tsarevich, as did Count Peter Tolstoy, ( 1645 – 1729 ).

Occasionally they incorporate incongruous appearances by famous authors ( e. g.: Pushkin and Gogol tripping over each other ; Count Leo Tolstoy showing his chamber pot to the world ; Pushkin and his sons falling off their chairs ; etc.