sentences:  He was married since 1736 to a rich merchant's daughter, Martha Surmina (1718–1745) who died of typhus at the age of 26 and left five children orphaned.Widowed, Roman Vorontsov had no desire to engage in family affairs and raising children.The empress made two elder daughters the maids of honor and took her to the palace, the sons lived with the eldest count Vorontsov-grandfather, the youngest daughter Catherine was raised with her only daughter, uncle Mikhail Vorontsov.