Armand Emmanuel du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu (1766–1822), received the name Emmanuel Osipovich in Russia and was depicted in bronze as Duke. The great-great-great-great-nephew of the famous cardinal and grandson of the marshal was forced to leave his homeland during the revolutionary upheavals, volunteered to take part in the bloody assault on the Turkish fortress of Ishmael, faithfully served his “adopted fatherland” - Russia for 24 years, and as governor-general fought against inertia, ignorance and bribery in order to on the site of a run-down village, the flourishing city of Odessa grew up. Returning to devastated France, he, as head of government, fought exhausting cabinet battles for the independence and welfare of the country, but did not turn into a courtier and remained “a stranger among his own.” His limitless capacity to love was forced to huddle on the edge of a dream of personal happiness. Russian Emperor Alexander I called Duke the only friend who told him the truth, and the English Duke of Wellington believed that “Richelieu’s word is worth a treatise.” He bore his family name with honor and took a worthy place in the history of France, Russia and Ukraine.