Marie-Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé (25 February 1848 – 29 March 1910) was a French diplomat, Orientalist, travel writer, archaeologist, philanthropist and literary critic.
A conduit of Russian literature and the Russian soul in France, he is known as the author of Le Roman russe (1886), a collection of essays on the leading Russian writers of the 19th century: Alexandre Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Leo Tolstoy.
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