Vadkovsky, Ivan Fedorovich

The eldest son of a real privy councilor, chamberlain and senator Fedor Fedorovich Vadkovsky (1756-1806) and Ekaterina Ivanovna Vadkovskaya (1766-1830), nee Countess Chernysheva .

Defined in the Life Guards Semenov Regiment in 1807. In 1812, ujle was a second lieutenant . Member of the war of 1812 and foreign campaigns.

He distinguished himself under Kulm , taking command of the "sovereign company" of the regiment. D 1820 ujle - commander of the 1st battalion of the Semenovsky regiment.

For a short time consisted of a Masonic lodge (was adopted by P. M. Sipyagin)

In April 1820, the commander of the Life Guards Semyonovsky Regiment, known for his humane relations with his subordinates, Major General Ya. A. Potemkin was removed. On the recommendation of Arakcheev, F. Ye. Schwartz became the new commander with the instruction "to tighten the regiment." In the regiment where corporal punishment was abolished, a respectful attitude towards the subordinates was preached, stick discipline began to be imposed. From May to October 1820, 44 soldiers were punished, they received a total of 14250 stick strikes ^[1] . Schwartz, according to many who knew him, a very unbalanced man, insulted soldiers and officers.

In May 1820, Vadkovsky, seeing the situation prevailing in the regiment, decided to meet with the new regimental commander "to submit comments." Having learned about this, the chief of the Guards Headquarters Benkendorf called Wadkovsky to himself and indicated that it would not be useful, but would only cause trouble on the regiment, that he should wait for the return of Alexander I (the chief of the regiment) from abroad and turn to him personally . Wadkovsky, like many other Semyonov officers, began to look for opportunities to move to another regiment.

On the evening of October 16, 1820, the 1st company ("sovereign") of the 1st battalion, commanded by Vadkovsky, arbitrarily left "roll call" and put forward a demand for the removal of Schwartz. The mediators in the negotiations between the soldiers and the command were the captain of the 1st company N.I. Kashkarov and Vadkovsky (Schwartz declined to participate in the events). After unsuccessful negotiations, the "sovereign company" was built in the Manege, and then sent to the Peter and Paul Fortress . Upon learning of this, three more companies of the first battalion rebelled. Vadkovsky petitioned the command for the release of the first company and was refused. Then the entire regiment left obedience. At 4 o'clock in the morning on October 18, about 4 thousand soldiers gathered in the regimental yard. They demanded either to free the 1st company, or to unite the entire regiment in the fortress. The command agreed to the second. After the punishment of the "instigators" of the number of soldiers and the disbandment of the regiment in the army on August 21, 1821, an order was issued to arrest N. I. Kashkarov, I. F. Vadkovsky. Alexander I was sure that the actions of the soldiers of the Semenovsky regiment were directed by a secret society:

No one in the world will convince me that this incident was fictitious by the soldiers or happened solely, as shown, from the ill-treatment of these Colonel Schwartz. He was always known for a good and serviceable officer and commanded with honor the regiment. Why would he become a barbarian? In my opinion, there are other reasons. The suggestion, it seemed, was not military, for the military would be able to force them to take up a gun, which none of them did, even did not take a cleaver ... I admit that I ascribe it to secret societies. ^[2]

The investigation was conducted in the same spirit. The commission of inquiry led by A.F. Orlov worked in Vitebsk. During interrogations, Vadkovsky refuted assumptions about officers inciting soldiers to riot. He wrote about the events of 1820, “An acquittal article,” which was conveyed to Alexander I by Vadkovsky’s sister Sofya Fedorovna. The trial took place on April 15, 1822, and the verdict was pronounced on April 22. Vadkovsky, Kashkarov and retired Colonel Ermolaev were sentenced to deprivation of ranks, estate and the death penalty. The Auditorial Department (the management of the military-judicial unit in the Russian army) completed the examination by August 1822, reduced the sentence and transferred the case to Emperor Alexander, who had not yet decided on it. It was only in January 1826 that Nicholas I demanded a case from the audience. February 27, 1827 Nicholas ordered the transfer of Vadkovsky in the same rank to the Caucasian Corps, after having previously "stood in the fortress" for two and a half years. In May 1827, Vadkovsky achieved his resignation. According to the report of General Potapov to Grand Duke Konstantin , Vadkovsky “did not change his harmful way of thinking” and did not render zeal in the service. After the resignation, Vadkovsky lived in his estate Petrovskoye in the Oryol province under secret police supervision.

Wife - Elizabeth Alexandrovna (nee Molchanova).

Children:

• Barbara (1821-1863), married to Alexander Andreevich Katenin , Orenburg and Samara Governor-General ^[3] ;
• Fedor (24.3.1824 - 1880), head captain, holder of the orders of St. Vladimir, 4th art. with bow and Iron Crown 3rd century ^[four]

Wadkovsky took care of his minor nephew - the son of his early deceased brother Paul.

The Wadkowski sisters - Sofya Fedorovna Vadkovskaya-Bezobrazova-Timiryazeva and Ekaterina Fedorovna Vadkovskaya-Krivtsova — took an active part in the fate of the Decembrist brothers through their governor husbands. They were close friends with A. S. Pushkin , V. A. Zhukovsky . The seated father at the wedding of Catherine was the historian N. M. Karamzin ; her only daughter, Sofya Nikolaevna Krivtsova, became the wife of Pompey Nikolaevich Batyushkov , the brother of the poet Batyushkov.

• Vadkovsky I.F. Notes of Colonel Vadkovsky. 1820-1821. (Acquittal) // Russian antiquity. - 1873. - T. 7, No. 5. - S. 303-314.
• Memoirs of the Decembrists. - M.: Publishing House of Moscow State University, 1981. - S. 323—324.
• Dorofeev V. Yelets Decembrists // Red Banner (newspaper). - 1982, December 2.
• Dorofeev V. The rebel clan // Orlovskaya Pravda (newspaper). - 1982, December 14th.
• Dorofeev V. Intending for regicide // Literary Russia. - 1986, September 5.
• Dorofeev V. The rebel clan // Medicine for loneliness. - M., 2005. - ISBN 5-7949-0136-5

• From the Wadkowski clan (inaccessible link)
• “Missing people are always guilty ...” Article by A. Yu. Andreev on the site “Museum of the Decembrists”