Nikolai Perovski

Nikolay Ivanovich Perovsky (; 1785 – 22 April 1858) was an Active State Councillor, Governor of Taurida, Mayor of Feodosia, eldest son of Count Alexey Razumovsky, grandfather of Sophia Perovskaya. Biography Perovsky was brought up in the house of his aunt Natalya Zagryazhskaya and in 1799, he entered the service of the State College of Foreign Affairs as a student, being included in the Constantinople mission; in 1801 (1 January) he travelled to the Vienna mission, and then (in 1803, 31 August) – to the Dresden mission. In 1805 Perovsky joined the embassy of Count Yury Golovkin to China, as one of the embassy's seven noblemen, which also included Filipp Vigel. After serving a very short time in military service (in the Sumy Dragoon Regiment), Perovsky was again enrolled in the Department of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs and in 1811 was assigned to serve under the Kherson military governor, handling foreign correspondence. Having transferred to the service in the Ministry of Finance, Perovsky was appointed as an official in the and on 20 November 1812, was appointed to the commission for drafting laws. In 1816, by imperial command, he travelled to Amsterdam to countersign private bonds on a Dutch loan, which he did with success.