Sergei Uvarov (1786–1855)

Nikolay Utkin (1780–1863), Portrait of Sergey Uvarov (1786–1855), engraving, 1830s; source: Morozov, Aleksej Vikulovič: Katalog moego sobranija russkich gravirovannych i litografirovannych portretov, Moskau 1913, vol. 4, wikimedia commons, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sergey_Uvarov_by_Utkin.jpg.

Count (from 1846) Sergei Semenovich Uvarov (1786–1855) was a Russian scholar and politician. As Minister for Education (1833–1849) he pursued a policy of tight control and the promotion of conservative values under the motto "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality".

Nikolai Utkin (1780–1863), Sergei Uvarov (1786–1855), engraving, c. 1830, in: Morozov, Aleksei Vikulovich: Katalog moego sobraniia russkikh gravirovannikh i litografirovannikh portretov, Moscow 1913, vol. 4; source: wikimedia commons, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sergey_Uvarov_by_Utkin.jpg, public domain.