Kasatkin-Rostovsky, Nikolai Fedorovich

From the ancient princely family of Kasatkin-Rostov . The son of Prince Fyodor Mikhailovich Kasatkin-Rostovsky. Large landowner: patrimonial 1700 acres in the Samara province, acquired 1087 acres in the Kursk province, from his wife - acquired 970 acres in the same province. In St. Petersburg, he owned a house at 84 Moika Embankment .

At the end of the Naval College in 1869, he was released by the midshipman into the 5th naval crew. In 1871 he was transferred to the Guards crew and promoted to warrant officer . In 1874 he was promoted to lieutenant . He participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 as part of the Guards crew, under the command of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich . For military distinction was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree with swords and bow.

In 1878, he retired with the rank of captain-lieutenant and settled on his estate in the Kursk province, where he devoted himself to public activities. Since 1879, he was elected honorary justice of the peace in Novoskolsky Uyezd , and since 1882, by the Novooskolsky District Leader of the nobility . For some time he was also the chairman of the county zemstvo council. In 1890 he was elected the Kursk provincial leader of the nobility, in which position he spent one triennium. In 1893-1906 he again was the Novooskolsky district leader of the nobility. In 1897 he was granted the chamberlain , and on December 6 of the same year he was promoted to full state councilor . In addition, in different years he was the chairman of the county congress of justices of the peace, the vowel of the provincial zemstvo and the honorary trustee of the Kursk Gymnasium (1899-1903). He was elected an honorary citizen of the city of Novy Oskol . He contributed to the creation of a noble cash desk of mutual assistance in the Kursk province to save the noble estates from sale at auction.

In 1905, together with M. Ya. Govoruho-Otrok , Count V.F. Dorrer and N.E. Markov, he founded the Kursk People's Order Party, which was later transformed into the provincial department of the Union of Russian People . He was the honorary chairman of this department. He was also a member of the "Circle of nobles faithful to the oath" and the "Patriotic Union" of Count A. A. Bobrinsky . In 1906, he became one of the founders of the United Nobility , at the 1st Congress of which he was elected as a fellow chairman of the Permanent Council of the organization.

On March 24, 1906 he was elected a member of the State Council from the Kursk Provincial Zemstvo. He was in the right group. He was a member of the financial commission. On July 3, 1908, at a general meeting of the State Council, he declared: "I am an opponent of parliamentary-constitutional institutions and a supporter of the deliberative Duma."

He died in 1908 in St. Petersburg from a brain hemorrhage.

He was married to Nadezhda Karlovna Montresor (1852-1917). Their kids:

• Nadezhda (1873-1949), wife (from 1902) Nikolai Evgrafovich Mukhanov (1864-1933).
• Fedor (1875-1940), officer of the Life Guards of the Semenovsky Regiment, poet, publicist.
• Sofia (1877-1918), killed by the Bolsheviks during the Red Terror .
• Alexander (1885-1973), wife (from 1902) Anatoly Dmitrievich Vsevolozhsky (1870-1927, grandson of A.V. Vsevolozhsky ).
• Nicholas (1886-1918), killed by the Bolsheviks during the Red Terror; left his daughter from marriage (1904) with Martha Fedorovna Kamenskaya (d. 1929).

• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. with swords and bow (1878);
• Order of St. Anne , 2nd art. (1885);
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. (1890);
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art. (1901).
• light bronze medal "In memory of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878."
• medal "In memory of the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II"
• medal "For works on the first general census"

Foreign:

• Romanian Iron Cross (1878).

• Figures of Russia: 1906 / Ed. A.M. Champagne. - SPb., 1906. - 340 p. Sec. pag. : ill .; S. 21.
• List of civil ranks of the IV class for 1907. - SPb., 1907. - S. 630.
• State Council of the Russian Empire: 1906-1917. - M .: ROSSPEN, 2008 .-- S. 113.
• Chronos biography
• Kasatkin-Rostovsky House on Moika Embankment