Baron Andrey Nikolayevich Korf or Korff (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Корф, 1831-1893) was the first Viceroy (Governor General) of the Russian Far East (1884-93). The names of the village of Korf and the Korfa Bay commemorate him.
He came from the Korff noble family. He was an Imperial Russian baron of Baltic German descent and an infantry general of the Imperial Russian Army.
Andrey Korff took part in the Caucasian War and led an attack on Veden in 1859. He initiated the establishment of the Officers Infantry School. In 1884, Korf was put in charge of the newly established Maritime Governorate-General, which included the Russian Far East from the island of Sakhalin in the east to Lake Baikal in the west. Korff undertook some measures that facilitated further development of the region. He worked to improve education, to encourage colonization of the Ussuri River basin, to protect the sealskin trade, to create commercial relations with Japan and China, and to build coal mines on the island of Sakhalin.
Fields of grief
Before my empty views
Some final falling melting snow
Awakes my fervent stranger within...
Behind the hill
A cry from doomed and unborn
Malignancy will be reborn
Through the tides of time
Still a reflected vision on the snow
Of your precious essence
No flicker of hope along
With the falling sky
We used to dream fairy-tales in gold
Now only bloodred reigning saints above
We aim for the stars
We defy the winds and the clouds
To find one way out
To defy thy faith
Of the serpent's kiss
I sleep in chains
Through the deepest black
Wintergrief
Enlightened bu the northern lights
A last gleam
Of slowly fading northern skies
An epitome of my life
I see the light turning into darkness
There is no return when I hear the angel's call
I begin to crawl inside my self
To another instituxion
A domain for the brave
When the wintergrief grows stronger
A shrouded dream enthroned in the future
Emotional death, the denial of life
In remembrance to thee
Slaughtered is my soul beyond temptation
What's left of the remains in a charred hell
Wintergrief
Enlightened bu the northern lights
A last gleam
Of slowly fading northern skies
Wintergrief
Enlightened bu the northern lights
Into mourning signs
A last gleam
Of slowly fading northern skies