Nikolai Aleksandrovich Skalon ( November 3 (15), 1809 - November 2 (14), 1857 ) - Governor of Mogilev in 1854-1857, real state adviser .
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Biography
From the noble family of Skalon . The son of Privy Councilor Alexander Antonovich Skalon (1770-1851) and Anna Petrovna, daughter of the Kharkiv Governor P.F. Saburov .
At the end of the Page Corps in 1829, he was released from the pages in the ensigns of the Life Guards of the Finland Regiment . He participated in the suppression of the uprising in Poland in 1831 . In 1832 he was seconded to the Guards General Staff , and the following year was transferred to this headquarters. In 1839 he was sent to the 6th Infantry Regiment . In the same year he was dismissed from service as a lieutenant colonel . In 1846, he was accepted into the service with renaming as court advisers (with seniority from February 14, 1846) and was assigned to the Ministry of the Interior .
He held the posts of Arkhangelsk (1847-1849) and Chernihiv (1849-1854) vice-governors . He received the rank of college adviser (February 14, 1849) and state adviser (February 14, 1853). On September 11, 1854, he was appointed corrective of the position of the Mogilev civil governor , and after being promoted to full state councilors (December 31, 1855), he was approved in this position; occupying it, he died on November 2, 1857.
Skalon was familiar with Pushkin and Karamzin , was friends with the brothers Clementi and Arkady Rosseti, also pupils of the Page Corps. On January 31, 1837 he was in the Pushkin’s apartment, when the poet’s body was taken out for funeral at the Stable Church.
He was married to maid of honor Elena Levitskaya, daughter of the infantry general Mikhail Ivanovich Levitsky [1] .
Rewards
- Order of St. Anne of the 4th degree with the inscription "For courage" (1831)
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree (1839)
- Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree with the imperial crown (1852)
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1854)
- Polish Insignia for military dignity of the 4th degree (1831) and Insignia for the XV years of immaculate service (1854)
Notes
- ↑ FEB: Boyko et al. Notes: Letters from M. A. Lopukhina to Baroness A. M. Hugel. - 2001 . feb-web.ru. Date of treatment July 2, 2019.
Sources
- The memorial book of the Mogilev province for 1910. - Mogilev, 1910.
- Freiman O.R. Page in 183 (1711-1894). Biographies of former pages with portraits. - Friedrichshamn - St. Petersburg. , 1894. - S. 274.
- Chereysky L.A. Pushkin and his entourage .
- List of civil ranks of the first IV classes. Corrected on November 20, 1856. - St. Petersburg. , 1856. - S. 689.