Baranov Edward Trofimovich

(1811 - 1884), began service in the Life Guards regiment Izmailovsky, . was sent to the Caucasus, . where he took part in the hostilities, . as well as in the Hungarian war, then commanded the Life Guards Regiment, . and in 1866 he was appointed Lifliandskii, . Courland and Estland Governor General and Commander of the Riga Military District, . and in the same year - Governor-General of the north-western provinces and the commander of the military district of Vilna,
. In 1868, B. was appointed a member of the Council of State, . In 1881 - Chairman of the Department of State Economy, presided over the famous "Baranovskaya" commission to study the railways, the result of her work was the general statute of Russian railways.,