Shchepin-Rostovsky, Dmitry Alexandrovich

Youth and rebellion

Born in 1798 , came from the ancient princely family Shchepin-Rostov . Father - captain Alexander Ivanovich Shchepin-Rostovsky (October 22, 1768 - October 1825); mother - Olga Mironovna, nee Varentsova-Tarkhovskaya (1779 - January 9, 1851) ^[1] .

In 1803, the prince and princess Shchepin-Rostovsky, visited the Holy Land with their son Dmitry, bringing the holy land from there to invest in the foundation of the church in the Ivankovo ​​estate ^[2] .

He was educated in the Naval Cadet Corps , where he entered on March 5, 1810, midshipman on September 9, 1813, midshipman on February 18, 1816, in 1817 and 1818 in the voyage from Kronstadt to Cadiz on the ship Neptunus and back on Spanish transport, the crew was transferred to the Guard - October 16, 1819, lieutenant - April 22, 1821, dismissed from service as a lieutenant commander - November 29, 1822. He was reassigned to service in the Moscow Guards Regiment as a lieutenant - December 1, 1823, head captain - December 12, 1824, commander of the 6th Fusilier company (1825).

In 1826, he had 114 souls, “of whom 35 are souls in a 24-year-old bank and are already described for sale,” and hay and forest cottages.

Not formally a member of a secret society , he attended meetings with K. F. Ryleyev and E. P. Obolensky , where plans for an uprising were discussed. On December 14, 1825, during the uprising of the Decembrists, along with A.A. and MAA Bestuzhev, led the soldiers of the Moscow regiment to Senate Square , and wounded five people who tried to stop the regiment, including two generals - V.N. Shenshin and P A. Frederiks , Colonel Khvoshchinsky, two grenadiers, capturing the regimental banner). In his memoirs , V.I. Steinheil noted that “the participation of Prince Shchepin-Rostovsky in preliminary meetings has not been proven in any way. He stood firm in defending the oath to Konstantin Pavlovich in debt. ” ^[3]

He was arrested in Kusovnikova’s house on Senatskaya Square, brought to the main guardhouse, then at 10 o'clock in the Peter and Paul Fortress at number 6 of Alekseevsky ravelin , on December 17 was ordered to chain into iron pieces, relaxed - April 30, 1826.

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Following this, Shchepin-Rostovsky, among other Decembrists, was tried by the Supreme Criminal Court, according to the importance of the charges against him referred to the first category of state criminals and sentenced to death by cutting off his head. On July 10, 1826, he was graciously granted life and, by the deprivation of the ranks and nobility, he was determined to refer to eternal hard labor. On August 8, 1826, he was sent to Svartholm , and on August 22 of the same year, the prison term was reduced to 20 years. Delivered to the Chitinsky prison on August 25, 1827 , transferred to the Petrovsky Plant in September 1830 . Member of the Casemate Choir of the Decembrists.

Even before the expiration of the term, in 1839, Shchepin-Rostovsky was released from hard labor and settled at the settlement first in the village of Tasevsky of the Kansk district of the Yenisei province (now Taseevo of the Krasnoyarsk Territory).

Dmitry Alexandrovich was fluent in three languages ​​(not counting Russian), did good translations of poems by European poets, wrote poems himself, played the violin and guitar well. He was a good orator, he knew the works of the ancient philosophers, he remembered by heart many theological books, which helped him in difficult years of hard labor and exile in a. Taseevsky, when communicating with the peasants, to whom, besides the lessons of history, he explained incomprehensible places in the Bible.

On April 9, 1842, at the request of the mother, a transfer to the city of Kurgan of the Kurgan district of the Tobolsk province was allowed, left Irkutsk on September 10, 1842, on arrival in Tobolsk (September 28) it was allowed to stay there until the first winter journey, sent to Kurgan on October 9, arrived there 15 October 1842 Here he lived for 14 years, not doing anything specific; his material position was secured by the money that he received from his mother, who lived on his estate in the Yaroslavl province .

The idle life, which Shchepin-Rostovsky led in Kurgan, gave reason for the local police to certify him as a person “not doing anything particularly” or (in 1850) “engaged in reading books”, and the uneven, partly quick-tempered and unrestrained nature of the supervised was often the cause its clashes with the ranks of the Tobolsk administration. On the part of ill-wishers, a whole series of denunciations followed, accusing him of anti-government thinking, which in 1849 resulted in the establishment of particularly strict supervision over him; the latter was entrusted to the Kurgan mayor Rodion Martynovich Tarasevich , who, with some police measures, so constrained the freedom of Shchepin-Rostovsky, that he was forced to complain to the Tobolsk governor. On December 14, 1850, a clash took place with the Kurgan mayor Tarasovich, about whom an investigation was carried out by a specially seconded officer. The investigation, appointed by the governor, established the thoroughness of this complaint, the mayor was remarked for exceeding his given authority, and since 1851 the denunciations of Shchepin-Rostovsky and the disapproving reviews about him ceased. First, however, he was certified by the face of “not quite calm character”, then in the statement it was recorded that “nothing reprehensible was noticed” in his behavior, and in the last two years of his stay in Siberia the certification of the administration was even good.

After Returning from Siberia

According to the Most Gracious Manifesto of August 26, 1856, the rights of the hereditary nobility were returned to him and the legitimate children born after the sentence, but without a princely title, he was allowed to return from Siberia. In December 1856, he left for home, settled in his family estate Ivankovo, Rostov district of the Yaroslavl province. Ivankovo ​​(Ivankovo) on the League has not survived, at present it is a wasteland not far from the village of Zemlyvo in the territory of the Inaltsinsky rural settlement of the Borisoglebsky District of the Yaroslavl Region. Received payments from the state in connection with material difficulties. On October 22 ( November 3 ), 1859 , he died of paralysis in the Kiselev hospital in the town of Shuya, Vladimir province . It was rumored that he was poisoned when he was at a ball with one of the nobles. But none of the doctors dared to confirm or deny these rumors ^[4] .

Communion and confession of Prince Dmitry Archpriest Andrei Archangel. He and clerk Ivan Voskrasensky, as well as the sexton Vasily Prozorovsky, performed a burial (very modest, at the request of the dying man) at the cemetery of the Vasily Pariysky Temple at the Kiselevsky hospital in Shuya .

In 1880, the tsarist secret police of 3 divisions carried out an autopsy on the grave of the Decembrist, the seizure of documents buried with the deceased took place.

In 1919, the graves of Dmitry Alexandrovich Shchepin-Rostovsky and his parents were searched, perhaps trying to find a treasure.

According to official data, Prince Dmitry Alexandrovich Shchepin-Rostovsky died childless.

There is information that he married Yekaterina Yuryevna Ogarkova (1825–1880) in Siberia, but whether they were married or not was unknown. They have four children. One child died in the second week of birth (1842, not baptized) from respiratory illness (doctor’s conclusion) ^[5] .

• The daughter of Elizabeth, went with an officer artillery to Altai, in the city of Zmeegorsk, the fate is unknown.
  • Granddaughter Anna Vladimirovna (1884-1985) in the first marriage of Smirnov, in the second Andreeva. Active participant in charitable assistance to wounded soldiers in World War 1. She died in one of the monasteries on Mount Athos.
    • her daughter Elizaveta Alekseevna (born 1904)
    • her son Andrew (born 1907)
• Daughter Catherine (born 1845), husband Yurkovsky Vladimir Yuryevich (born 1840)
  • her daughter Lisa (b. 1865), husband Shveikovsky Vladislav, married daughter Anna (b. 1884)
  • her son Alexander (born 1867), married to E. Zhuravleva.
• Son Dmitry (born 1850), married to Ekaterina Alekseevna Urusova. Presumably, their surnames were Schepin without Rostov additives.
  • his daughter Vera (born 1902)
  • his son Victor (born 1903).

• A. G.,. Shchepin-Rostovsky, Dmitry Alexandrovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Biographical encyclopedia

• Dmitriev-Mamonov A.I. , Decembrists in Western Siberia. M., 1895, ch. XXVIII, pp. 159-161.
• Kotlyarevsky N. , Decembrists. SPb., 1907, adj. II, pp. 414–415.
• Schegolev P. , Notes of the Decembrist Bar. A.E. Rosen. St. Petersburg, 1907, p. 62, 64, 65, 104, 109, 155, 279, 358.
• Decembrists and secret societies in Russia, ed. V. M. Sablina. M., 1906, pp. 63, 85, 112.
• Decembrists. 86 portraits, ed. M.M. Zenzinov. M., 1906, pp. 270—271.

• On the site "Memorial places of the Decembrists in St. Petersburg"