Count Adam Pavlovich Bennigsen ( June 27, 1882 , Moscow - November 16, 1946 , Moulin , France) - Russian officer.
| Adam P. Bennigsen | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | June 27, 1882 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow |
| Date of death | November 16, 1946 (64 years) |
| Place of death | Moulins ( Allier department, France ) |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  France |
| Occupation | officer, writer |
| Language of Works | Russian |
| Debut | "Some data about modern Mongolia" |
Content
Biography
Orthodox. The son of a titular adviser, Count Pavel Alexandrovich Bennigsen and Alexandra Karlovna von Meck .
He graduated from the Corps of Pages (1901), from where he was issued a cornet in the Life Guards Horse Regiment .
In the years 1908-1910 was a vowel Venevsky district council assembly .
In the First World War - officer of the Life Guards Horse Regiment, a participant in the battle on August 6, 1914 near the village of Kaushen in East Prussia.
He served in the Volunteer Army under the command of General L. G. Kornilov . From August 5 to September 1919, temporarily correcting the post of commander in the 1st Guards Combined Cuirassier Regiment, from November 1919 temporarily correcting the post of commander of the Combined Cuirassier Regiment. Consisted of the Russian Army in the Crimea. Colonel Evacuated from Novorossiysk to Turkey. In early November 1920, he was on the island of Proti. He served at the American Red Cross in Gallipoli. Then he moved to Estonia via Estonia. He worked as an accountant in the company "Liano-Film". In 1921 a member of the board of the Union for the Liberation and Revival of Russia. Vice-President of the Society of Russian Orthodox Culture in Paris.
One of the founders, treasurer (1932), and then a companion to the chairman of the parish council (since 1933) of the Orthodox parish of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Caunier, near Paris.
The philanthropist of the temple (except for the icons for the iconostasis, wrote and donated the portable icon of the Mother of God and the icon of St. Innocent). One of the founders of the Russian Orthodox Cultural Association in Anyer (1932). Vice-President of the Society of Russian Orthodox Culture in Paris.
In 1945-1946 lived in Moulins . He died after a long illness. Buried in the cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve de Bois .
The personal archive of A.P. Bennigsen is kept at the Hoover Institution .
Freemasonry
Dedicated to the February 25, 1924 in the box " Northern Lights " worked as part of the Great Lodge of France under number 523. Erected in the 2nd degree - July 17, 1924, in the 3rd degree - February 21, 1925. secretary in 1926. 1st guard in 1927-1928. Honorable Master in 1928-1931, orator in 1937. Member of the box until death [1] .
Member of the cultivation box "Friends of wisdom" of the French Supreme Council . Erected to the 14th degree - July 2, 1927, 2nd guard in 1929 and 1932. 1st guard in the years 1930-1931. He retired from the box on November 11, 1936 [2] .
Family
He was married to Theophania Vladimirovna Khvolson (1887–1969), the daughter of lawyer Vladimir Danilovich Khvolson (1862–1931), and the children's writer Anna Borisovna Khvolson , granddaughter of Orientalist Daniil Avraamovich Khvolson , the niece of physicist O. D. Hvolson .
Son - Alexander Adamovich Bennigsen , orientalist and Sovietologist.
Works
- Some data about modern Mongolia. SPb. 1912.
Notes
Sources
- Page Corps for a hundred years / Comp. D.M. Levshin. Volume two. St. Petersburg, 1902. p. 376.
Links
- Bennigsen, Adam Pavlovich at Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants
- Manor in Guryevo
- Information about the archive of A.P. Bennigsen at the Hoover Institution