Levshin, Vladimir Dmitrievich

The son of a general from infantery Dmitry Sergeyevich Levshin . Levshin began public service in 1851 at the Moscow Chamber of State Property. In 1856 he moved to the Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of the Interior . Elected member of the Russian Geographical Society in 1858. In 1868 he returned to the previous department and got a place as a manager of state property in the Perm province .

Soon after, in 1870, he was appointed vice-governor to the Samara province and in 1872 transferred to the same post in Voronezh . In 1876, Levshin was appointed chief of the Ufa province , and in 1880 he was transferred to the same position in the Yaroslavl province . He died suddenly on the night of April 2 ( 14 ), 1887 .

He was married to the daughter of a secret adviser and senator N. F. Shaufus , Olga Nikolayevna ^[1] .

Representatives of local science, especially in subjects of history and archeology, found sympathy and support in Levshin. He suggested the need for the restoration of the Rostov Kremlin . The restoration was carried out by local historians A. A. Titov and I. A. Shlyakov , Yaroslavl Mayor I. A. Vakhrameev , leader of the nobility of the Rostov district D. A. Bulatov , priest Mansvetov and others with the participation of Vladimir Dmitrievich and under the supervision of the Imperial Moscow Archaeological Society on private donations. The White and the Departure Chambers were renewed, in which the Museum of Church Antiquities was opened (1883), then in 1884 the Prince's Tower, in 1885 - the cave temple of Sts. Leonty in the Assumption Cathedral in Rostov , and in subsequent years - the outer walls of the churches of the Savior on the Senya and John the Theologian, "Garden Tower", intended as a reading room and library. The total cost of these restorations has reached 20,000 rubles. For their activities as Chairman of the Commission for the Restoration of the Rostov Kremlin, the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society elected Levshin to its honorary members. Vladimir Dmitrievich was elected a full member of the Imperial Moscow Archeological Society on December 3, 1884.

In Yaroslavl was founded, according to EI Yakushkin , a historical and archaeological museum. Levshin took an active part in the preliminary work on the device of the 7th Archeological Congress in Yaroslavl in 1887, but did not live to see it being discovered.

Together with E. K. Ogorodnikov, Levshin published “Lists of Populated Places of the Russian Empire”, compiled and published by the Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of the Interior (XLIV, Tula Province. St. Petersburg, 1862).

• Levshin, Vladimir Dmitrievich // Russian biographical dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Biography in the "Directory of Scientific Societies of Russia"