Ivashev, Pyotr Nikiforovich

Came from the noblemen of the Arsky district of the Kazan province . In 1775, at the age of 8, he was enlisted as a fourier in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment . He began active military service in this regiment with the rank of sergeant on December 2, 1785 . January 1, 1787 he was promoted to ensign , but on March 2 of the same year he was transferred to the Poltava light-regiment with the rank of captain .

He received the rank of second major for the courage shown during the assault on Ochakov , the title of prime minister for the distinction during the assault on Ishmael , after which he continued his service in the Fanagori Grenadier Regiment . In the period from 1789 to 1795 he held the position of quartermaster at the headquarters of Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov . In 1794 he participated in the war with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; for the storm of Prague he received the Order of St. George 4th class on October 26, 1794

On January 1, 1795 he received the rank of colonel, having also received the position of commander of the Tauride Horse Riding Regiment. Major General since March 7, 1798, also taking the post of chief of the Taganrog Dragoon Regiment .

November 30, 1798 due to injuries sustained during the assaults of Ishmael and Prague, his health deteriorated, due to which he was forced to resign. In January 1807, he led the assembly of the Zemsky troops in the territory of the Vyatka province, leading it after the formation was completed. June 4, 1811 he was again enlisted in the active service in the Corps of Engineers of Waterways and Waterways, heading the 7th district of the Main Directorate of Communications ( Estland , Courland , Livonia , Vilenskaya , Minsk , Mogilev , Smolenskaya and Pskov provinces - the theater of future military operations ) He headed the construction work on the construction of the waterway from Lake Sebezh , also supervised the reconstruction of Riga and the construction of the Dinaburg fortresses .

June 30, 1812 received the post of chief of military communications at the headquarters of the 1st Western Army. Then he directed the construction of crossings and floating bridges on the army’s retreat routes and the construction of field fortifications at positions near Vitebsk and Smolensk , Lubin , later on Borodino field , near Tarutin , Maloyaroslavets , as well as near Krasny and Berezin .

In 1813 he directed the construction of bridges across the Vistula and the Oder and fortifications at positions near Lucen , Bautzen and Dresden . He took part in the siege of Magdeburg, in 1814 he participated in the capture of Hamburg .

On December 11, 1815, he again served in the Corps of Railway Engineers, having been appointed to the post of chief of the 3rd District of Railways and Waterways; in this post he led the reconstruction of Vyshnevolotsky locks. February 28, 1817 left the service, having retired.

In 1796 , he married Vera Alexandrovna, the daughter of the Simbirsk governor A.V. Tolstoy , receiving a number of lands behind her, including the village of Undory , where he lived in 1798-1810, and from 1817 until his death, which followed there. . With the help of specialists from Kazan University, he studied the healing properties of local mineral waters, organized a hydropathic center. He built a school for peasant children, glass and flour mills, invented the reaper. Elected Honorary Member of the Leipzig Economic Society. One of the initiators of the creation in Simbirsk of a monument to N. M. Karamzin . The Ivashev family had four daughters and a son, the Decembrist Vasily Petrovich Ivashev . Often their relatives — the family of General Zavalishin — visited the Ivashevs' house.

For more than a year - from January 1826 to February 1827 ^[1] , Pyotr Nikiforovich lived in Petersburg without a break, trying to mitigate the fate of his only son, the last years of his life were dedicated to this. He died humbly, alone, his wife died a year earlier, his son in Siberia, his daughter on trips abroad. Until Simbirsk itself, 40 versts, the peasants carried the coffin with the body of their merciful, clever gentleman in their arms. General Ivashev was buried in the cemetery of the Intercession Monastery in Simbirsk .

Pravnuk - Vasily Petrovich Ivashev - railway engineer, head of the 6th section of the Petrozavodsk-Romanov-on-Murman road construction department . Known for the world's first completed filter dam project across the Kandalaksha Strait . ^[2]

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