Background
Prince Dmitry Gorchakov was born in Kostroma Governorate, the only son of Prince Pyotr I. Gorchakov, member of an empoverished Russian aristocratic family, the Chernigov"s line of Ryurikovichs.
Prince Dmitry Gorchakov was born in Kostroma Governorate, the only son of Prince Pyotr I. Gorchakov, member of an empoverished Russian aristocratic family, the Chernigov"s line of Ryurikovichs.
He received a high quality education at home, in 1768 joined the army, took part in Wallachian and Crimean campaigns but in 1782 (for reasons that remained unclear), retired to engage himself in agricultural activities in his Tula estate. lieutenant was in the early 1780s that he first started to write poetry. In 1790 Prince Gorchakov rejoined the Russian army as a volunteer, took part in the battle at Izmail, was seriously wounded and was praized for courage by Aleksandr Suvorov.
In 1807 Gorchakov was made an honorary Russian Academy member.
In 1807-1910 he served as a Governorate procurator in Pskov and Tavria, then as a high-ranked administrative official in the Moldovan army. In 1813 Gorchakov was appointed a vice-Governor of Kostroma, in 1816 he retired and moved to Moscow where he lived up until his death in 1824.
Prince Dmitry Gorchakov was buried in the Danilov monastery in Moscow.
In 1811 he became the member of an influential group known as Beseda (the Lovers of the Russian Word Meetings).
