Gagarin, Pavel Pavlovich

Born in the family of the Moscow Ober Commander Pavel Sergeyevich Gagarin (1747-1789) and his wife Tatyana Ivanovna, nee Pleshcheyeva (1761-1800). The father died a few months after the birth of his son, “leaving the young wife and children in the greatest debt in the same condition” ^[2] . After the death of his parents, he and his brother Andrey were brought up in a boarding school. His cousins Nikolai and Gregory were revered in Moscow for the pillars of high society.

From January 1801, he was listed in the Moscow Archives of the College of Foreign Affairs (see “ Archival Youths ”). Chambers Junker from April 1805. Prior to his dismissal from military service “due to illness” in April 1809, he served as a lieutenant adjutant with military leaders N. A. Tatischev , M. A. Miloradovich , A. A. Prozorovsky . In 1810 he received the post of adviser in the State Assignation Bank ^[3] .

In the 1810s He was considered an official of special assignments under the Minister of War. Since 1819, was the chief prosecutor of one of the Moscow departments of the Senate, and since 1823 - their general meeting. Senator since 1831. In 1843-44 went to revise the Arkhangelsk province. Appointed a member of the State Council in 1844, Gagarin worked mainly in the Department of Laws. In 1849 he investigated the affairs of Petrashevists . Prince P. V. Dolgorukov characterized it as follows ^[4] :

In 1857, Gagarin was appointed by Emperor Alexander II as a member of the Secret Committee on the Peasant Issue . Together with Ya. I. Rostovtsev and Baron M. A. Korf, Gagarin participated in the commission, which was obliged to consider many private projects sent to the committee, but hesitated, causing the emperor's displeasure.

When the committee was transformed into the Main Committee on Peasant Affairs , Gagarin showed himself as a defender of the interests of large land tenure, was a supporter of the conservative party, which defended the interests of landowners; He became one of the initiators of the fourth grant, which further reduced peasant land tenure. From 1862 he was chairman of the Department of Laws, when judicial statutes were worked out.

From 1864 - Chairman of the Committee of Ministers, in which he previously replaced the seriously ill Chairman D. D. Bludov . He replaced the chairman of the State Council during his absence. As the chairman of the Supreme Criminal Court in the case of D. V. Karakozov (1866), he showed complete impartiality. In May 1868, he was promoted to Actual Privy Counselor of the 1st class, corresponding to the rank of Field Marshal in military service.

Prince Gagarin was the author of the idea of ​​a three-digit Zemsky election system, to which many objected.

He died shortly before his 83th birthday and was buried in the St. Petersburg Novodevichy Monastery ^[5] . His views were strictly conservative, and his temper was harsh, unsociable. “Prince Gagarin was a very clever man, an expert in laws and legal proceedings, brisk, sharp, courageous and, according to Russian concepts, honest, that is, not bribed in money; but ambitious, a servant of the authorities and ready for everything out of honor and exaltation ”- M. A. Dmitriev spoke about him ^[6] .

P. Gagarin was married to Maria Grigorievna Glazenap (1792– after 1849), the daughter of Lieutenant General G. I. Glazenap , from Baltic nobles. According to his contemporaries, she was very blond in appearance, in society she was known for panache and stiffness, she always kept straight and important, reluctantly answering yes or no when asked about her; she treated her husband as a lackey, for which she received the nickname “Princess Mager” . In the St. Petersburg Palace Gagarins on the street. Bolshaya Morskaya, 45, today houses the House of Composers. Married had children:

• Pavel (12/01/1809-1888), the godson of Prince A. P. Gagarin and Countess P. N. Gurieva.
• Yuri (1811-1858), Colonel, lost his leg in 1847 during the storming of aul Salt . According to the contemporaries, “he was notable for his mind, but he was angry and willful to rabies. His jealousy, based on one vanity, had no limits, exactly like the cruel treatment of his wife. " His wife Lydia Arkadyevna Rakhmanov (1818–1895), “extremely beautiful, kind was the subject of respect for all Tiflis youth and played an important role in the broad, carefree life of that time” ^[7] . Their children are son Pavel (1837–1847) and daughter Lydia (1842–1904; maid of honor).
• Valerian (1812 - until 1872)
• Sergey (1818–1870), Arkhangelsk and Saratov Governor
• Herodion (1819-1857), the mentally ill.
• Barbara (1822–1890), one of the first Moscow beauties, was married to D. P. Solntsev (1803–1875). Their marriage was not happy; the reason for the spouses was Princess Gagarin, who lived with her daughter.
• Michael (1825–1826)
• Fedor (1828-1829)

During his long bureaucratic career, Prince P. P. Gagarin was awarded the following orders of the Russian Empire:

• 1824 - Order of St. Anne 1st degree
• 1836 - Order of the White Eagle (Russian Empire)
• 1840 - Order of St.. Alexander Nevsky (diamond marks - 1848)
• 1851 - Order of St. Vladimir 1st degree
• 1857 - Order of St.. Andrew the First-Called (diamond signs - 1863)

• Noble families of the Russian Empire. Volume 1. Princes / Authors-compilers P. Grebelsky, S. Dumin, A. Mirvis, A. Shumkov , M. Katin-Yartsev. - SPb. : EPC "Vesti", 1993. - 344 p. - 25 260 copies - ISBN 5-86153-004-1 .
• Gagarin, Pavel Pavlovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Gagarin, Pavel Pavlovich // Russian biographical dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [30 tons] / ch. ed. A. M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.