Sergey Stepanovich Lanskoy
Russian politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sergey Stepanovich Lanskoy (Russian: Серге́й Степа́нович Ланско́й; 3 January 1788 [O.S. 23 December 1787] - 7 February [O.S. 26 January] 1862) was the Russian Minister of the Interior from 1855 to 1861, being inaugurated during a reform-minded era and dismissed after the Emancipation Reform of 1861. He is known for being close friends with Nikolay Milyutin, who drafted the Russian Emancipation proclamation, and with his brother, Dmitry Milyutin, who was serving as Minister of War.[1]