Mikhail Konstantinovich von Kaufman ( December 25, 1858 [ January 6, 1859 ], St. Petersburg , Russian Empire - February 24, 1891 [ March 8, 1891 ]) - lieutenant, adjutant, member of the Akhal-Teke campaign of Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev .
Mikhail Konstantinovich von Kaufman | |
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Date of Birth | December 25, 1858 |
Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
Date of death | February 24, 1891 (32 years) |
Place of death | St. Petersburg |
Affiliation | Russian empire |
Type of army | artillery |
Rank | lieutenant |
Battles / Wars | Turkestan hikes |
Connections | father KP Kaufman , uncle MP P. Kaufman , grandfather PF Kaufman , grandfather M. B. Berh , cousin A. M. Kaufman . |
Born on December 25, 1858 in St. Petersburg , father - Major General (later Adjutant General and Turkestan Governor General) Konstantin Petrovich Kaufman , mother - admiral M. B. Berha Julia Moritsovna. Educated in the Corps of Pages , after which he was released to the Life Guards Equestrian artillery battery.
In 1880-1881 he was sent to the Transcaspian Territory as part of the Akhal-Teke detachment, M. D. Skobelev , where he was appointed adjutant to the head of the detachment headquarters of Colonel PK Gudim-Levkovich , but was left at the headquarters in Krasnovodsk . junior adjutant. He was in the assault on Geok-Tepe and the subsequent occupation of Askhabad . At the end of hostilities, Skobelev was sent to St. Petersburg with reports. N. A. Epanchin remarked on this occasion: “For a long time it was the custom that the sovereign appoints such messengers to His retinue , and so it was under the Emperor Alexander II . But Kaufman arrived in St. Petersburg shortly after March 1, and he presented the report to the new Emperor, Alexander III . After hearing the report of Kaufman, the Sovereign told him that his deceased Father would have appointed Kaufman an aide-de-camp, and therefore He favors this title . ” Officially, Kaufman’s admission to Sweet, the adjutant adjutant, was retroactive from March 2, 1881. After the meeting with the emperor, Kaufman continued his service in the Life Guards of the Horse Brigade.
On February 24, 1891, Mikhail Kaufman committed suicide, which caused a stir in Moscow society and attracted the attention of the highest persons of the empire. Emperor Alexander III, in a letter to the heir to the Tsarevich, Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich, reported the reason for the suicide: “On February 24, the adjutant adjutant Kaufman shot himself. The reason was the dirty story in Arcadia 116 , where he and the midshipman Count Tolstoy were beaten by an army officer for their rudeness, but they kept silent about it, made up with him and even invited him to breakfast the next day. However, the whole story was learned, the rumors circulated around the city, they wanted to hold an inquiry through the police. Kaufman was frightened and saw that the matter was bad, he took and shot himself. Before that, he had been in a few hours with Richter 117, and then for the first time he saw that this story cannot remain that way. Tolstoy was dismissed from the service, and he fought with this officer (his name was Dvorzhitsky), no one was injured. Guards Horse Artillery Brigade terribly embarrassed by this dirty story " [1] .
He was buried in St. Petersburg in the cemetery of the Novodevichy Monastery [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Letters of Emperor Alexander III to the Heir Tsesarevich Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich , from 1876 to 1894. The publication of V. L. Stepanov was carried out according to the originals stored in the GARF (F. 601. P. 1. D. 1139. L. 1—71) , with preservation of old grammatical forms and features of the author's letter. The syntax is reduced to the modern norm. // Russian archive. - T. IX. - Moscow : Russian Cultural Foundation, 1999. - p. 213-250.
116 Restaurant in the park of the same name near Petersburg.
117 Richter Otton Borisovich (1830–1908), Adjutant General, General of Infantry, Commander of the Imperial Headquarters (1881–1898), Member of the State Council. - ↑ View document - dlib.rsl.ru
Literature
- Epanchin N. A. In the service of three emperors. Memories. M., 1996
- Miloradovich G. A. The list of persons retinue of their majesties from the reign of Emperor Peter I to 1886. SPb., 1886
- Letters of Emperor Alexander III to the heir to the Tsarevich, Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich // Russian Archive (History of the Fatherland in the testimonies and documents of the XVIII — XX centuries). Issue Ix. M., 1999
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