Foreign Minister and Chancellor of the Russian Empire
1754 CE
to 1826 CE
Count Nikolai or Nikolay Petrovich Rumyantsev (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Румя́нцев; 3 April 1754 – 3 January 1826), born in Saint Petersburg, wis Russia's Foreign Minister and Chancellor of the Russian Empire in the run-up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1808–12). He is the son of Field Marshal Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky from the Rumyantsev comital family