Prince Andrey Nikolaevich Vyazemsky (1802-1856) - Major General, Podolsky governor. The older brother of the Decembrist A. N. Vyazemsky .
| Andrey Nikolaevich Vyazemsky | |
|---|---|
 Lieutenant A. N. Vyazemsky on watercolor by P. F. Sokolov | |
| Date of Birth | 1802 |
| Date of death | May 4, 1856 |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire |
| Type of army | cavalry |
| Rank | major general |
| Battles / Wars | Polish campaign of 1831 |
| Awards and prizes | Order of St. Vladimir 4th century (1831), Virtuti Militari 4th Art. (1831), Order of St. Anne 1st century. (1835), Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree. (1841), Order of St. George 4th century. (1844) |
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Biography
He came from an old Russian princely family : his father was Colonel Nikolai Semyonovich Vyazemsky (1768–1833), his mother was Alexandra Petrovna, nee Rimskaya-Korsakova (1766–1823). Entered military service on December 31, 1820 as an ensign in the Training Carabiner Regiment. On February 1, 1823, he was transferred by cornet to the Cavalry Regiment and on July 14, 1826, he was promoted to lieutenant . December 6, 1829 received the rank of captain .
In 1831, Prince Vyazemsky participated in the suppression of the uprising in Poland and was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree with a bow. Also for this campaign, he was awarded the Polish mark of distinction for military dignity ( Virtuti Militari ) 4th degree. January 1, 1834 produced in the captain .
On March 7, 1837, he was appointed to consist on special assignments under the Moscow military governor, General of cavalry, Prince Golitsyn . April 21, 1839 promoted to colonel with enrollment in the army cavalry and leaving in the previous position. On December 6, 1848, he was promoted to major general and soon was appointed military governor of Kamenets-Podolsk and the Podolsk civil governor . He died on May 4, 1856 in his estate in the village of Studenets, Venevsky district.
Contrary to the will of his father, who left the youngest son without an inheritance, Prince Andrew divided all the property with his brother in half, giving him half of the Ryazan estates. According to contemporaries, he was an honest and good man, was tall, well-built, well-proportioned, very handsome. He was well received at court balls and was one of those gentlemen whom Empress Alexandra Fedorovna favored, and very often he was honored to dance with her. But "he was never lucky in anything, and his excessive timidity and suspiciousness were a great hindrance in his career."
Personal life
In his youth, Prince Vyazemsky was very passionate and the hunter was circling the heads of young women. He was in love with many beauties of high society and was an enviable bridegroom. It was said that Princess N. P. Golitsyna wanted her to marry her granddaughter, Olga Stroganova, who later marched to Count P. C. Ferzen , but this marriage did not take place. I.V. Vasilchikov , being very disposed to Vyazemsky, wooed him his daughter Catherine (married to Ivan Luzhin in 1831), which he liked, but the case was divided because of the stinginess of Prince Nikolai Semenovich.
The wife (since 1834) is Natalya Alexandrovna Morshanskaya (1809–01.07.1874), the “pupil” of A. A. Naryshkin. In her first marriage she was married to collegiate assessor Mikhail Vasilyevich Guryev and had a son Vasily. He was rich, but a big player. He withdrew from his wife for 40 000 rubles. banknotes and gave her a divorce. According to E. P. Yankova , Princess Natalia was a very prominent and stately woman, beautiful in herself. And over the years, and in appearance with the second husband, they were a wonderful couple. But with all her kindness and with her good character, she did not know how to make Prince Vyazemsky happy, for she was a hawk, a hunter to dress and finish rented apartments, which brought her husband into debt and upset his condition. Spouses now and then that they changed apartments and finished everything everywhere: they lived on Ostozhenka, then on Prechistenka, and it rarely happened that they live where for over a year [1] . In the early 1840s, Princess Vyazemskaya left her husband and “fled to St. Petersburg with someone” [2] . She died "from heart failure" in 1874 in Wiesbaden, buried there in the Orthodox cemetery [3] . Children:
- Alexandra Andreevna (1835–1841)
- Lydia Andreyevna (1840–?), Was brought up, according to contemporaries, without any supervision from her mother [2] . In her youth, she was considered a beauty and had connections with several Don Juans, including M. P. Daragan . Finally, her mother discharged her to St. Petersburg and there she found a decent husband, Nikolai Pavlovich Iordan (1832-1902) [4] , an officer of the Austrian regiment, who was listed as a guard. Her father gave her a dowry Studenets, where the young family moved [5] .
Awards
Among other awards, Prince Vyazemsky had orders:
- Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree with a bow (1831)
- Polish insignia for military virtue ( Virtuti Militari ) 4th degree (1831)
- Order of St. Anne 2nd Class (1835)
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1841)
- Order of St. George of the 4th degree (December 17, 1844, for irreproachable service for 25 years in officer ranks, No. 7180 according to the list of Grigorovich - Stepanov's cavalier )
Notes
- ↑ Stories of grandmothers and memories of five generations, recorded and collected by her grandson D. Blagovo. - L .: Science, 1989. —C. 331—335.
- ↑ 1 2 Venevsk county - Studenets manor
- ↑ TsGIA SPb. f.19. op.123. 30 with. 194.
- ↑ Nikolai Pavlovich Jordan: since 1891 - retired lieutenant; He held a number of posts in the county zemstvo:
- 1876-1890 - non-applicable member of the county on the peasant affairs of the presence;
- 1876-1892 - Vowel of the Venev County Zemstvo Assembly;
- 1890 - a member of the zemstvo in the county in the presence of military service;
- 1890-1892 - Zemsky head of the 2nd section of Venevsky district - see Barsky manor of the village Studenets.
- ↑ N.P. Rzhevskaya. Personal memories and everything heard. Memoirs. - Tula: 2010. - p. 83.
Sources
- Volkov S.V. The Generality of the Russian Empire. Encyclopedic dictionary of generals and admirals from Peter I to Nicholas II. Volume I. A — K. M., 2009. - p. 306. - ISBN 978-5-9524-4166-8
- The history of the Horse Guards and the Cavalry Guard Her Majesty's Regiment from 1724 to July 1, 1851. - SPb., 1851. - C. LXXI — LXXII, CXXIV
- List of senior generals . Corrected on January 7th. - SPb., 1856. - p. 393.
- Collection of biographies of the Horse Guards