Sheremetev, Pavel Sergeevich

Count Pavel Sergeevich Sheremetev was born on May 19 ( 31 ), 1871 in the family of Count Sergei Dmitrievich Sheremetev and Ekaterina Pavlovna , nee Vyazemskaya .

He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Imperial University of St. Petersburg . During the year he was serving compulsory military service in the Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment . He went into the reserve with the rank of ensign . In 1899-1911 - Zvenigorod district leader . Mentioned in the memoirs of VF Dzhunkovsky as a person who neglected all the official duties of the leader of the nobility ^[1] . In 1900 he received the title of chamber junker , in 1906 - the rank of college adviser , in 1910 - the title of chamberlain . Member of the Russo-Japanese War (1905-1906). Consisted of an authorized Russian Red Cross Society from the Moscow nobility. He was in the army of the Northeast, his task was to deliver goods, organize hospitals and warehouses of the Red Cross . With his participation, a military hospital for 1000 people was organized in Vladivostok , a sanitary warehouse was equipped in the village of Novokievskaya. In 1906 he was awarded the Red Cross medal "For the labor incurred during the war for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers." With the outbreak of World War I, the warrant officer of the reserve Count Sheremetev was called up to the militia, where he was also involved in helping the wounded. He spent the whole army in 1915.

He was acquainted with the second husband Akhmatova, scientist Vladimir Shileyko, with whom there were common interests. Together with him, in May 1916, he visited the bohemian cabaret "Comedian's Shelter", about which he wrote in his diary.

Member of the Society of Lovers of Ancient Writing, the Russian Genealogical Society , Historical and Pedigree Society, a competing member of the Imperial Society of History and Antiquities of Russia at Moscow University, a member of the St. Petersburg and Yaroslavl scholarly archival commissions, a member of the Society for the Protection and Preservation of Monuments of Art and Antiquities. Since 1903 - a member of the liberal circle "Conversation", a member of which was V. I. Vernadsky . Member of the Patriarchal Conversation Circle. Member of the committee for the preparation for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812 . Member of the preparation committee for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty . Since 1916 - Member of the State Council from the noble societies. By 1917 he had the rank of state adviser.

Talented artist. Pupil K. Ya. Kryzhitsky and A. A. Kiselev . In 1911, he was a fellow chairman of the All-Russian Congress of Artists and chairman of the Committee for the Exhibition of Iconography and Art Antiquity.

After the October Revolution, until 1927 he was the head of the Ostafyevo Museum-Estate near Moscow , where he worked on the description of collections of paintings and sculptures , systematized collections of weapons, gems , lithographs and books. In June 1928 - dismissed. Since the fall of 1929, after the liquidation of the museum status of Ostafyev, he was evicted and lived with his family in the Naprudnaya tower of the Novodevichy Convent , wrote articles that remained in manuscripts. Member of the All-Russian Union of Writers since 1921.

He died in Moscow on November 20, 1943 .

• In 1911, P. S. Sheremetev published the book Karamzin in Ostafyev.
• Together with the engraver Nikolai Panov, he published the historical and art collection Russian Manors ^[2] , for which Sheremetev wrote the texts.
• In 1927, a guide to the Ostafyevo estate museum was published, but the author was not indicated.

He was treated in a sanatorium for nervous patients in Kryukovo near Moscow after a nervous shock caused by the suicide of her beloved woman, Irina Vasilievna Dolgoruka, nee Naryshkina, after the first marriage of Vorontsova-Dashkova (she was married to the brother of Dmitry Sergeyevich Sheremetev's wife Irina). They were linked by many years of friendship, but it is clear from the correspondence that Pavel Sergeevich could not count on reciprocity.

Since [1921, he was married to Praskovya Vasilievna (nee Princess Obolenskaya; 1883-1941), who in 1922-1928 worked with her husband in the Ostafyevo Museum. In marriage, a son was born Vasily (1922-1989) - an artist.

• Order of St. Stanislav , 2nd century;
• Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree .;
• Order of St. Anne , 2nd art.

• Sheremetevs in the fate of Russia: Memories. Diaries. Letters // Avt.-sost. A.I. Alekseev, M.D. Kovalev. - Publishing House "Belfry", 2001. - P.420. - ISBN 5-88093-089-0 .
• Krasko Alla Three centuries of the city estate of the Counts Sheremetevs.
• Popova N.I., Rubinchik O.E. Anna Akhmatova and the Fountain House.
• Sheremetev P.I.F. Gorbunov. “About some hare” // Russian antiquity . - 1898. - T. 93. - No. 3. - S. 537-541.

• About Ostafyevo owners
• (unavailable link) P. Sheremetev East Horseman (1887)