Nikolai Gagarin

Prince (Knyaz) Nikolai Sergeevich Gagarin (князь Николай Сергеевич Гагарин; July 12, 1784—July 25, 1842) was a Russian leader.

[citation needed] On October 16, 1833, Gagarin was appointed a post of vice-president of the His Majesty's Cabinet under Emperor Nicholas I and Chairman Viktor Kochubey; in December 1837, he was appointed member of the commission for the restoration of the Winter Palace after a fire.

[citation needed] Prince Gagarin died a violent death by the hand of one of his former subordinates, a forest warden of the Rejnmana estate.

Prince Gagarin met the forest warden at Rejnmana, and, after a brief conversation, was fatally shot in the neck.

[citation needed] Nikolai Sergeevich Gagarin's descendants were forced into exile during the Russian Revolution and lived in France until recently.