Merits of Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev (1754-1826) - a politician, diplomat and patriotic statesman who served in key posts of the ruling cabinet of Alexander I, almost no place was left on the pages of the political history of Russia. But this rich, brilliantly educated nobleman sought to save the country from bloodshed and ruin, concluding important international treaties, tried to overcome economic backwardness, developing trade, laying waterways, building cities...