Cherkasov, Ivan Ivanovich

Born on January 5 ( January 16 ), 1732 in Astrakhan, where his father was exiled to the reign of Empress Anna Ioannovna . Empress Elizabeth Petrovna , who ascended the throne, favored the comrades-in-arms of her father, Peter I , summoned Ivan Antonovich from exile to St. Petersburg, where on November 29 ( December 10 ), 1741 , he was granted the status of state councilors and was appointed at the court of Her Majesty “to send room writing ”.

In 1742, I.A. Cherkasov sent Ivan Ivanovich and his older brother Alexander Ivanovich to the UK , where they attended lectures at Cambridge University . In 1747, A.I. Cherkasov returned to Russia, and Ivan Ivanovich remained in Cambridge , where he studied navigation . In June 1752, Alexander Ivanovich again came to England and took his brother away.

Fluent in English , Baron Cherkasov was engaged in translations from English and collaborated in the "Monthly Works". In 1755, he wrote an article "On Human Mercy for the Most Despicable Family of Animals."

After returning to Russia in 1752, Baron I.I. Cherkasov was recorded in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment . September 20 ( October 1 ), 1756 , Ivan Ivanovich was promoted from sergeant to ensign . In 1761, Baron Cherkasov lived in Moscow . However, it is known that by June 28 ( July 9 ), 1762 - the time of the palace coup committed by Catherine II , he was already the headquarters captain of the 1st Musketeer Company of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (the captain of which was Emperor Peter III ) and the adjutant wing . In this capacity, he accompanied Peter III, frantically trying to maintain power, in a boat trip from Oranienbaum to Kronstadt and back. Evil tongues claimed that this was the only baron's exit to the sea, to which he owed the unflattering nickname of a river sailor ( fr. Marin d'eau douce ) ^[1] . After the deposition of the emperor, Baron Cherkasov, together with his fellow soldiers Count S.R. Vorontsov , second major Voeikov and captain Izmailov, was arrested.

In 1766, Baron Ivan Ivanovich Cherkasov lived in St. Petersburg and even participated in the election of the mayor and deputy from the capital to the Catherine’s Stated Commission . Five years later, Cherkasov, who was already a captain at that time, retired from the Preobrazhensky regiment with production as foreman . However, already on February 22 ( March 5 ), 1771 of the same year, he was appointed Ober-Ster-Krieg Commissioner of the Fleet, and on December 31 ( January 11 ), 1772 - General-Krieg Commissioner . In 1777, Baron Cherkasov was a member of the Admiralty College . From January 15 ( January 26 ), 1781 , Ivan Ivanovich went on an annual vacation.

Mason, a member of the St. Petersburg lodge "Gorus". In 1783, at the foundation of the Masonic Lodge of the Golden Key in Perm, it became its second overseer .

June 28 ( July 9 ), 1782 , Baron Cherkasov, being in the rank of treasurer general, was promoted to vice admiral . However, only six months later, on January 1 ( January 12 ), 1783 , he resigned and was dismissed from his service with the preservation of a lifetime salary. In the years 1784-1787. Yamburg county leader of the nobility. The proximity to Peter III did not allow Cherkasov to reach great heights at the court of Empress Catherine II. The Baron had the Holstein Anninsky ribbon in memory of his commitment to Emperor Peter III; With the accession to the throne of Emperor Paul I , who honored the memory of his father, Cherkasov's pension was increased: from December 15 ( December 26 ), 1796 , it increased to 3,000 rubles.

After the death of his wife, Baron Cherkasov settled in the house of his brother-in-law, Prince A.M. Beloselsky-Belozersky , at Anichkov Bridge , where he died on October 29 ( November 10 ), 1811 . At the end of his life, he fell into childhood so much that he mixed in one dish all the dinner he brought and ate it like that. Buried in the old Lazarevsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra ^[2] .

Wife (from July 29, 1762) - Princess Elizabeth Mikhailovna Beloselskaya (1742-1807), maid of honor of the court (1755), daughter of Prince M. A. Beloselsky , granddaughter of Count G.P. Chernyshev and the famous Avdotya Rzhevskaya . According to a contemporary, the Baroness was a woman who never changed her duty. Not being a beauty, she was very smart, was engaged in literature and had some influence on Prince Potyomin . In her letters she called the brightest one “my beautiful cherub”, then “the adorable, sweet and almighty prince with an unparalleled heart” - then “my clever father” ^[3] . Her marriage was childless. She died during a trip abroad in March 1807 in Lublin and was buried in a local Greek church ^[4] .

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