Odintsov, Alexey Alekseevich

Alexei Alekseevich Odintsov (1803–1886) - General of Infantry, Nizhny Novgorod military governor.

Aleksey Alekseevich Odintsov
Infantry General A. A. Odintsov
Nizhny Novgorod Governor October 4 ( 16 ), 1861 - March 28 ( April 9 ), 1873
Predecessor	Alexander Nikolaevich Muravyov
Successor	Pavel Ippolitovich Kutaisov
Birth	May 12, 1803 ( 1803-05-12 ) Kronstadt
Death	April 17, 1886 ( 1886-04-17 ) (82 years) St. Petersburg
Education
Awards	Order of St. Anne 4th century (1831), Order of St. George 4th century. (1848), Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree. (1856), Order of St. Anne 1st century. (1859), Order of St. Vladimir , 2nd century. (1864), Order of the White Eagle (1870), Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1873).
Military service
Years of service	1823-1881
Affiliation	Russian empire
Type of army	infantry
Rank	Infantry General
Battles	Polish campaign of 1831

Born on May 12, 1803 in Kronstadt, and descended from the nobles of the St. Petersburg gubernia .

In the eleventh year, he was sent to the 1st Cadet Corps , after which he was promoted to ensigns on February 27, 1823 and began his service in the Lithuanian Life Guards regiment , where he served for about twenty years. Being a part of this regiment, Odintsov, by the way, took part in suppressing the Polish insurrection of 1831 , for which he was awarded the Order of St. Anna 4th degree.

Moving quickly in service, Odintsov was already in the rank of captain in 1835, and in May 1842 he was seconded to the Life Guards Grenadier Regiment as a junior head officer. After serving in the Life Guards Grenadier Regiment for eight years, in March 1850, Odintsov was appointed St. Petersburg Plain Major, and three and a half years later, the second St. Petersburg commandant; November 26, 1848. For 25 years of irreproachable service, he was awarded the Order of Saint. George of the 4th degree (No. 7953 according to the list of Grigorovich-Stepanov); December 6, 1851 promoted to major generals. Knowing perfectly the device, life and needs of the peasant population, he, from the time of accession to the throne of Emperor Alexander II , took an active part in the work of liberating the peasants. Also during this time he was awarded the orders of St.. Stanislav 1st degree (in 1856) and of sv. Anna 1 st degree (in 1859)

In 1858, Odintsov was appointed a member of the government of the St. Petersburg Provincial Committee on the structure of the life of peasants. The following year, he was appointed chairman of the Highest Approved Special Commission, the purpose of which was to work out the necessary measures to prevent workers from being injured, often repeated in factories , and to determine positive rules about young workers.

Before the promulgation of the manifesto on February 19, 1861 on the liberation of the peasants, Odintsov was appointed a member of the temporary commission of the landowners of the St. Petersburg province to work out preliminary measures to enact the Regulations on the peasants. Soon afterwards, in September of the same year, he was appointed Nizhny Novgorod military governor and manager of the civil part of the province.

Having entered into the execution of his new duties, Odintsov began to work actively on the implementation of the peasant and other reforms in 1860. His very useful activity as the Nizhny Novgorod governor can be judged because, in addition to official differences, he gained deep respect and gratitude from Nizhny Novgorod. This gratitude was expressed in the fact that Odintsov was later elected to the honorary citizens of Nizhny Novgorod and, moreover, the City Council established a scholarship named after him in the Nizhny Novgorod Vocational School, another scholarship in the Nizhny Novgorod gymnasium was established in 1878 by order of the general meeting of full members of Nizhny Novgorod united all classes of the club.

During his nearly twelve-year administration of the Nizhny Novgorod province, Odintsov was promoted to lieutenant-general (November 8, 1862) and received the Order of Saint. Vladimir of the 2nd degree (in 1864) and the White Eagle (in 1870).

Elizaveta Nikolaevna

In March 1873, Odintsov was appointed a member of the Alexander Committee for the Wounded, where, despite his old age, he continued to work vigorously. He took an especially active part in the proceedings of the committee established to work out measures to look at the families of military officials of those killed, missing and dead from wounds received in battles. The award for these works was the Order of St.. Alexander Nevsky (in 1873) and the rank of General of Infantry, in which Odintsov was produced on August 30, 1881

Odintsov died in St. Petersburg on April 17, 1886. He was buried in Staraya Derevne near St. Petersburg at the Church of the Annunciation . After him, there were extensive and interesting “Notes”, partly printed in “Russian antiquity” in 1889 (vol. 64, pp. 289-322) and 1890 (vol. 65, p. 21—34).

His wife is Elizaveta Nikolaevna Manzey (July 22, 1824– September 20, 1860), the daughter of Major-General Nikolai Logginovich Manzey (1784–1862) from his marriage with Sophia Sergeyevna Yakovleva, granddaughter of the famous rich man ; sister of General Constantine Manzei . Buried next to her husband.