Buhler, Fedor Andreevich

Baron Fyodor Andreevich Buler spent his childhood in St. Petersburg. The main leadership in the matter of upbringing and the initial teaching belonged to the mother Alexandra Evstafievna , ur. Palmenbach, educated at the Smolny Institute (led by her mother , the granddaughter of Biron). In April 1832, Buhler entered as a boarder at the 2nd St. Petersburg Gymnasium . There, according to F. A. Buhler, "my passion for Russian literature began to develop." When he visited the gymnasium on March 9, 1835, by Emperor Nicholas I, he pronounced an ode to him about the "Porfirorodny Youth" and was among the five gymnasium students whose training was transferred to the public account. At this time, Prince P.G. Oldenburg founded the Imperial School of Law and invited the father of F.A. Buhler, A. Ya. Buhler, to take his son to a new institution on the same conditions. Here he wrote an essay entitled “Memoirs of London,” which N. A. Polevoy published in his journal “ Son of the Fatherland ” (1839).

After graduating from college in 1841, he began his activities in the Senate, but, according to him, “this service was a mechanical servant and did not deliver real practice.” In early autumn 1843, a Senate revision was appointed to the Astrakhan province to verify the activities of Governor I. S. Timiryazev , headed by Prince P. P. Gagarin , to whom Buhler was seconded. Upon his return to Petersburg, F. A. Buhler was appointed secretary to the Senate and held this post until 1847.

At this time, Buhler did not interrupt his literary pursuits. He wrote and, in acquaintance with A. A. Kraevsky , printed in “Domestic Notes”: “Nothing, a chronicle of a Petersburg resident” with dedication to Prince V. F. Odoevsky (1843; vol. XXVIII, pr. 6, p. 313–376) and four ethnographic articles entitled: “Foreigners migrating and settled in the Astrakhan province” (1846; vol. XLVII, pr. 7, pp. 1–28; pr. 8, pp. 59–125; vol. XLVIII, book 10, pp. 57–94; T. XLIX, book II, pp. 1–44), about which the Imperial Geographical Society, in the Zhukovsky Prize Award Commission, gave the most flattering response. (1849, Prince III, p. 50). In addition, “Essays on Eastern Siberia: Lamaism and Shamanism” were written at the same time; they appeared in “Domestic Notes” in 1859 (vol. CXXV, pr. 7, pp. 201–258).

After six years of service under the Senate, Baron F.A. Buhler left his legal career for health reasons and lived for about three years abroad. On the way back to Russia, the baron was introduced in Kissingen to Count K.V. Nesselrode and was appointed secretary of the consulate general in Moldova and Wallachia (1851). He had more than once to manage the consulate general during the illness of the chief. At the end of 1853, Baron F.A. Buhler was sent to Iasi to form the office of the interim chairman of the Moldavian divan Count K.I. Osten-Saken . This activity lasted four years: according to the intrigues of Austria, Russia was to abandon the Danubian principalities, and Baron F. A. Buhler left Iasi.

In St. Petersburg since 1856, he took the place of the manager of a special expedition under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . He was entrusted with the compilation of political reviews for Alexander II and then, from March 9, 1857, participation, as a member, in the main department of censorship , where he observed political reviews that were published in large periodicals. During this service, which lasted for seventeen years, Baron F. A. Bühler wrote a number of historical works (especially a large work devoted to the era of Empress Catherine the Great ), which drew attention to him as a serious researcher and expert on Russian history, and when The director of the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prince M. A. Obolensky , died; in his place, the High Command from January 18, 1873, appointed Baron Buhler.

In addition to transferring the Archive from the former cramped building to a new building on Vozdvizhenka , Buhler paid special attention to the library and the historical gallery of portraits. From the very beginning of his directorship, he began to continuously make book gifts for the Archive; then, in 1882, with the highest permission, he donated two thousand manuscripts, books, brochures and prints of his own library in favor of the entrusted institution; in 1889 he donated to the Archive his collection of autographs of prominent persons (644 issues) and fourteen volumes of his family archive, for which he received the highest thanks. All these offerings were subsequently placed in a special room of the Moscow Main Archive, called the Library Department of Baron Fedor Andreevich Buhler .

In 1880, on the initiative of Baron F. A. Buhler, the Collection of the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs began to be published (Moscow, 1880-1893, five issues). On the pages of this “Collection”, in addition to studies of other persons, articles of the director himself were placed: “Information on the structure of the Archival part in Russia” and “One of the catalogs of the time of A. F. Malinovsky ” (issue I); Voltaire's Unpublished Letters, with a preface and notes, and Archive Participation in the Kazan Archaeological Congress (issue II); “Moscow Main Archive and its former visitors” (issue III — IV); “The Statute and Badge of the Order of the Garter in the Moscow Armory” (issue V).

Since the late 1870s, guardian activities have joined the Archive Management classes. Appointed Honorary Guardian of the Moscow Guardian Presence, Baron F. A. Bühler from 1879 to 1886 was a member of the Academic Council at the Elizabethan School , and from 1886 to October 1895 he managed the orphanages in Moscow: the Nikolaev Institute, the Nikolaev Female and the Alexandrian minors schools. The activities of F. A. Buhler ended with his appointment in 1896 as chairman of the Moscow Presence of the Board of Trustees.

• Order of the Garter of Ivan the Terrible

• Objection to the article: "Peasant business in the Ryazan district." (The Day, 1862, No. 35).
• Smolny monastery. (Severnaya Pochta, 1864, Nos. 99 and 100).
• Two episodes from the reign of Catherine II. (Russian Bulletin, 1870, pr. 1-3, 9-10; 1871, pr. 1-3, 9-10 and 12).
• A letter from the Duke of Biron to his daughter. With a preface and notes ("Russian Archive", 1871, Prince II).
• Memoirs of N. A. Polevoy: letters in it of Grech, Bulgarin and father Iakinf Bichurin. ("Russian Old Man", 1871, pr. 12).
• A letter from N.V. Gogol to S.T. Aksakov. ("Russian Old Man", 1871, pr. 12).
• Letters from A. S. Pushkin to the Cavalier Girl N. A. Durova. With an afterword (Russian Archive, 1872, pr. 1).
• Correspondence of Count A.V. Suvorov with Nelson. With a foreword (Russian Archive, 1872, pr. 3-4).
• A line in the state activity of Count D. N. Bludov: measures against the censorship of the printed word ("Russian Archive", 1872, pr. 5).
• A letter from A. S. Pushkin to Baron M. A. Corf, with notes (Russian Archive, 1872, pr. 7-8).
• On the printing of the speech of Emperor Nicholas to the Warsaw deputies, 1835 (Russian Old Man, 1872, pr. 12).
• Essay on the activities of the Commission for the Printing of Letters and Treaties (M., 1877).
• Portraits of John Ernest Biron and members of his family. With the genealogy of the Surname Biron ("Russian Old Man", 1873, pr. 1).
• Notes on the plague of 1771 ("Ancient and New Russia", 1875, pr. 9).
• Moscow Archive of the College of Foreign Affairs in 1812. With the appendix of eleven documents, including the letters of Count F. V. Rostopchin (The Russian Archive, 1875, Prince II).
• Features from the life of Prince Potemkin. (" Ancient and New Russia ", 1875, pr. 12).
• A note on M. Yu. Lermontov. ("Russian Old Man", 1876, pr. 1).
• Two letters of Voltaire. With a foreword (“Collection of the Imperial Russian Historical Society”; St. Petersburg, 1876, vol. XV).
• “On the Place of Burial of I.I. Chemnitzer” (Moscow Sheets, 1884, No. 47).
• "Laws of John" and "Judicial Code of John IV." (M., 1878).
• Ancient Russian poems collected by Kirsha Danilov. (M., 1878).
• Authentic acts about the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God. (M., 1879) .
• Pictures of ancient Russian seals. (M., 1880).
• Unpublished poems by I. S. Aksakov. ("Russian Old Man", 1886, pr. 12).
• Speech at the opening of the Ministry of Justice Archive. ("Moscow Vedomosti", 1886, No. 281).
• Mutual relations of Russia, Poland, Moldova, Wallachia and Turkey. (M., 1888).
• Relations of Russia with the Caucasus. (M., 1889).
• Materials for Russian history. (M., 1890):
• Empress Maria Fyodorovna in her cares for the Smolny Monastery, 1797-1802. (Russian Old Man, 1890, pr. 3, pp. 809–832).
• Empress Maria Fyodorovna, in her letters to S.I. de Lafon and to E.A. Palmenbach . (Russian Old Man, 1890, Prince 10, pp. 215–219).
• The case of Shah Abbas sending the Holy Robe. (M., 1891).
• Diplomas and other historical documents of the 18th century relating to Georgia. (M., 1891).
• Fonton-de-Verraillon. (“Russian Old Man”, 1891, Prince II, pp. 473–474).
• Political correspondence of Catherine II. ("Collection of the Imperial Russian Historical Society." St. Petersburg, 1893, v. IXXXVII).
• A note on the Council Charter on the election of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich to the throne (Novoye Vremya, 1893, No. 6133).
• Praskovya Alekseevna Mukhanova. Obituary. ("Moscow Vedomosti", 1894, No. 280).
• The most comprehensive Archive report for 1892. (M., 1894).

• Obituary (Moskovskiye Vedomosti, 1896, No. 128) - see D. Yazykov Materials for the “Survey of the Life and Works of Russian Writers and Writers”. - Vol. 16 (AI): (Russian writers and writers who died in 1896).
• “Moscow Vedomosti”, 1893, No. 243; 1896, No. 129, 131.
• “Russian Old Man”, 1894, Prince I, p. 189-192.
• "Russian Review", 1896, Prince. 7, p. 362-372.
• “New Time”, 1896, No. 7256.
• “Historical Bulletin”, 1896, pr. 6, p. 990-999.
• “Archaeological Proceedings and Notes”, 1896, No. 5-6.
• Brockhaus F.A., Efron I.A. Encyclopedic Dictionary, vol. V, p. 287.
• Profile of Fedor Andreevich Buhler on the official website of the RAS