Zakhar ( Zakhary ) Fedorovich Dubyansky (February 5, 1743 - August 10, 1765 ) - officer of the Life Guards Preobrazhensky regiment , an active participant in the palace coup on June 28, 1762, which brought to power Catherine II .
Biography
Zakhar Dubyansky was born on February 5, 1743 and was the third son in the family of the confessor of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, court archpriest Fyodor Yakovlevich Dubyansky and Maria Konstantinovna, nee Sharogorodskaya. At the age of 11, Dubyansky was determined by the page of Grand Duke Pyotr Fedorovich (January 16, 1754), and on January 21, 1761 he was bestowed in cell-pages. By a registered decree on April 20, 1761, Elizaveta Petrovna elevated Zakhar Dubyansky, along with his older brothers Mikhail and Fedor, who served in the Life Guards Horse Regiment , and their younger brother Jacob , a page of the High Court, to hereditary dignity for the merits of their father [1] .
On accession to the throne, Peter III on the 6th day of his reign, December 30, 1761, produced Dubyansky from cell pages into the guards of the Life Guards Preobrazhensky regiment. Nevertheless, Zakhar Dubyansky, like his elder brother Mikhail (on June 4, 1762, "because of poor health" was transferred by the same emperor from the second-captains of the Life Guards of the Horse Regiment to the court rank of non-commissioned ranger), took an active part in the events that led to the overthrow of Peter III and the enthronement of Catherine II.
On August 6, 1762, the new empress issued a decree publicly celebrating the merits of her most notable associates:
Her Imperial Majesty, although not a little doubtful of the true faithful of her subjects, under all circumstances that had previously existed, was secret to herself; however, especially those who, out of jealousy to keep the welfare of the people, have caused Her Majesty’s very merciful heart to take the throne of Russia as soon as possible, and thus save our fatherland from the calamities threatening it, these days it has deigned to give special signs of its attention [2]
The merits of Mikhail Dubyansky were rewarded by giving him 600 souls of peasants; the same award was received by 19-year-old Zakhar Dubyansky, who became one of the 9 officers of the Preobrazhensky regiment, whose names were mentioned in the decree [3] .
On August 10, 1765, the 22-year-old Dubyansky, who by then already held the rank of captain-lieutenant of the Life Guards of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, had died in St. Petersburg and was buried in the Lazarevsky Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra , where his mother was buried four years later, and later - brothers and nephews (he was single and had no children).
Notes
- ↑ Inventory to the Highest decrees and orders stored in the St. Petersburg Senate Archive for the 18th century / Comp. P. Baranov. T. 3. 1740-1762. - SPb., 1878. - S. 459.
- ↑ Papers of Empress Catherine II, stored in the State Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. T. 1 / Collection of the Russian Historical Society. T. 7.- SPb., 1871. - S. 108-109.
- ↑ In addition to the Dubyansky brothers, among the 41 persons mentioned in the decree, there was also their cousin of the chamber-jungfer of the Empress Ekaterina Ivanovna Sharogorodskaya, who received a reward of 10 thousand rubles.
Sources
- Pages for 183 (1711–1894): Biographies of former pages with portraits. / Collected and published by O.R. von Freiman. - Vol. 1. - Friedrichshamn, 1894 .-- S. 33.
- Lobanov-Rostovsky A. B. Russian genealogy book . - T. 1. - Ed. 2nd. - SPb. , 1902. - S. 192.
- Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich . Petersburg necropolis. - T. 2. D — L. - SPb. , 1912.- S. 96.