Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (Константин Петрович фон Кауфман) (1818–82)

Russian military officer and adminstrator. Graduated from the Central Engineering College in 1839. Served thirteen years in the Caucasus, fighting rebels. During the Crimean War, negotiated the conditions for surrendering Kars to Russian troops with the British General W. Fenwick Williams. Governor-general of Vilna, 1865–6; of Turkestan, 1867–82. Sponsor of the Tashkent branch of the Society of Enthusiasts of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography, set up in 1870.