Alexander Valerianovich Malama (1855 - 1928) - Russian statesman. ( No. 43 on the family tree ). At the top of his career, he successfully carried out the responsible diplomatic missions of Emperor Nicholas II, had wide acquaintances among European diplomatic circles. After the October Socialist Revolution of 1917, Lenin, according to some reports, offered Malame a prestigious position in the Foreign Affairs Commissariat, but Alexander Valerianovich refused. Together with his wife he emigrated to Estonia, after the conclusion of a peace treaty between her and the RSFSR in 1920. In Tallinn, together with his wife, he opened a private music studio, where he taught.
Alexander Valerianovich Malama | ||||
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Alexander Valerianovich Malama | ||||
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Birth | August 15, 1855 | |||
Death | 1928 Tallinn | |||
Rod | Malama | |||
Father | Valerian Aristarkhovich Malama | |||
Mother | Anna V. Malama, nee. Becker (daughter of a landowner) | |||
Spouse | Barbara Alexandrovna Malama, ur. Arbeneva | |||
Children | not | |||
Awards | Order of St. Stanislav 3rd century. (1885), Order of St. Vladimir 4th century. (1889), the Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree. (1892), Medal "In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III" (1876), Order of St. Vladimir , 3rd century. (1896), Medal "In commemoration of the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II" (1896), the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle , 3rd class and the Order of the Legion of Honor , the Cavalier Cross (1897), the Persian Order of Leo and the Sun, 2 degrees and the Bukhara Order of the Golden Star 1- Degree (1992), Bulgarian Order “For Civil Merit” , Order of St. Stanislav 1st st. and Order of the Legion of Honor , officer's cross (1903), sv. Annas of the 1st degree (1906), medal “In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava” (1909), badge “In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Senate” (1911), Order of St. Vladimir , 2nd station. (1911), Medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812" . |
His wife, Varvara Aleksandrovna (nee Arbeneva) (died in Tallinn in 1939), was a cousin of the famous Russian writer Georgy Ivanov , who had lived with the Malam couple for several years and which they cared about.
“When George became older, his mother entrusted his cousin Varvara, who lived with her husband to the Ministry of the Interior on Mokhovaya Street, in a large, government apartment with fifteen rooms. The husband of Aunt Wari held the position of Jamermeister of His Imperial Majesty, that is, he was in charge of the royal hunt. The spouse of the hungermaster Malama, ”recalled George Ivanov,“ had a hot-tempered and extremely imperious temper. In front of her, couriers and servants were not only trembling, all the Ministry was afraid of her. The apartment ... from the situation to the very air breathed importance, respectability, chill, proximity to the "spheres". Suffice it to say that upon entering it, it was possible to encounter the minister himself, who was walking around in it easily, sometimes even in a homemade coat and carpet slippers. And this minister was also not an ordinary minister, but a celebrity, a "pillar of reaction" or "stronghold of the throne" - depending on the point of view. In private, this thunderer ... looked like a cozy, good-natured old man. ”
Thunder God, the Minister of the Interior, Ivan Grigorievich Shcheglovitov, was known to all of Russia. In the living room of the Privy Councilor Jägermeister Malama, Jura met not the only remarkable person. He remembered the extremely charming tall Felix Feliksovich Yusupov, who at the end of 1916 , together with the Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, sent Grigory Rasputin himself to the next world. Georgy Ivanov recalled when he began writing the novel “The Third Rome”, and later, when he planned “The Book of the Last Reign”. But those adolescent days in the house on Mokhovaya were especially visible to him when he wrote “Nastya”, the last story in his life.
For the summer, Yura and his family went to the country house - to the Vilna province, they went off the train at the Gedroytsy station. His connection with the North-Western Territory, where May and his father were from, did not stop until the First World War. From summer cottage they returned in the fall, to the beginning of the school year. ”- [1]
The testimony of writer I. Odoevtseva is also interesting:
For tea, Minister Shcheglovitov, who lived with Malama on the same site, usually appeared in home carpet slippers ... Malama had a great-aunt, Jura [Georgy Ivanov], a charming, thin old woman, blue-eyed and white, looking like a porcelain figurine. She was completely blind and did not leave her two rooms, in which dozens of canaries sang and flew behind a thin wire grid. With her, there was an inseparable little Cossack reading for her “New Time” ... By the way, the story of this his grandmother, as well as almost all of his family members, was extraordinary and curious. Her Georgy Ivanov told in one of the notebooks of the "Renaissance" ... under the title "From the Family Chronicles."
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The epilogue of history dates back to 1917. Shortly after the February revolution, a new revolutionary minister arrived at the ministry. The eyewitnesses, I can’t vouch for how reliable they were, claimed that he shook hands with the confused porter and nodded, without giving a hand to the equally bewildered top officials (the head of the ministry himself was, of course, in Petropavlovka), quickly went through the premises, uttered a thunderous speech, which was a great specialist, and, grumbling "I will dispose of", departed. Promise "to dispose of" the minister kept. Soon after his visit, an order followed ... immediately to clear state-owned apartments "from reactionary elements" ...
A week later, following armchairs, cupboards, mattresses, chests and other good stuff that filled fifteen rooms of the ill-fated X. [Alexander Valerianovich], they carried out a cage with Nastya's canaries, portraits of a major, a casket that was meant for sacred snakes. Thin Nastya, supported by a courier, came down after her massive daughter. The furniture was loaded onto scrapers. Nastya and X. left in a cab. The secret adviser itself remained to look after the loading of things. When the last lomovik, accompanied by her morals to drive carefully, did not break or break anything, left the gate, followed him out, forever leaving the house, where for many years she was fearful of her husband’s subordinates, and the daughter of Prince Karabakh ...
Thrusting her hands in pockets like a man, she strode toward Nevsky. Her glittering black eyes were gloomy. Rejoice in her, really, there was nothing ...
It was a gray April day, drizzling boring rain. Towards a false imitation of Marseillaise, some sort of regular demonstration was moving.- [3]
Malama is also known as one of the first breeders of setters in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. By that time, this breed of dogs was considered to have already become hot in Russia, and Malama set himself the goal of reviving her by restoring the breed's field qualities.
In 1890 in St. Petersburg, this cradle of English setters, the nursery of spouses V.A. and A.V. Malama is registered. Living in Petersburg, they kept a nursery and rangers in Slutsk (Pavlovsk). Spouses imported from abroad, mainly from Belgium, and partly from France and England, English setters and concentrated in a really first-class breeding material. <...> The nursery of V.A. and A.V. Malama existed until 1920. During the fighting on the outskirts of Petrograd, the dogs of this plant parted hands. In the setters of Dushenka, the huntsman Koyko, Nero-Kuvyrkova and Lord-Tymoshenko, left in Leningrad and picked up on the streets, according to rumors, the blood of the Russian Lewellins nursery V. A. and A. V. Malama was leaked.
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Biography
He was born in 1855 , came from the nobility of the Ekaterinoslav province . He graduated from the Ekaterinoslav State Gymnasium (1875), the Military Law Academy (1878) with production on June 18 (30), 1878 to the provincial secretaries and secondment to the Chief Military Judicial Directorate. 2 (14) March 1879 was assigned to serve in the Ministry of Justice .
Ranks:
- collegiate secretary ( June 18 (30) 1881 ),
- titular adviser ( June 18 (30), 1884 ),
- collegiate assessor June 18 (30), 1887 ,
- court counselor ( June 18 (30), 1890 ),
- collegiate councilor ( November 10 (22), 1892 ),
- State Councilor ( November 10 (22), 1895 ),
- Actual State Counselor ( January 1 (14), 1901 ),
- Privy Counselor ( January 1 (14) 1909 ),
- Jägermeister ( December 6 (19) 1911 ).
August 16 (28), 1882 - Junior Assistant to the Head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice; October 20 [ November 1 ], 1882 - Senior Assistant Head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice; January 1 (13), 1885 - Head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice; 1 (13) April 1887 - Secretary of the Office of the Ministry of Justice; November 22 (10), 1892 - official of special assignments under the Minister of Justice of the VIIth grade; November 1 (13), 1893 - official of special assignments under the Minister of Justice of the VIth Class; February 1 (13), 1896 - official of special assignments under the Minister of Justice of the Vth Class; March 30 [ April 11 ] - June 1 (13), 1896 , on a business trip in Moscow, formed on the occasion of St. The coronations of Their Imperial Majesties, the temporary branch of the Ministry of Justice; May 2 (15), 1902 - entrusted with the management of the temporary office of the Ministry of Justice; June 8 (21) 1902 - Member of the Consultation of the Ministry of Justice for audit assignments; February 8 (21), 1909 - Representative of the Ministry of Justice on the Council for Railway Affairs; May 12 (25), 1910 - Member of the Meeting to clarify the issue of the Russian state national color.
Awards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd century. ( 1 (13) January 1885 );
- The highest favor (DOC 1 (13) January 1888 );
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th century ( 1 (13) January 1889 );
- The highest favor (VP 1 (13) January 1892 );
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree ( 1 (13) January 1892 );
- The highest favor (DOC 1 (13) January 1893 );
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd century. ( May 14 (26), 1896 );
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree ( 1 (14) January 1903 );
- Order of St. Anne 1st st. ( 1 (14) January 1906 );
- The highest gratitude for the arrangement of the Tsarsko-Selskoy exhibition (1911);
- Order of St. Vladimir , 2nd century ( 1 (14) January 1912 ).
- Medal "In Memory of the Reign of Emperor Alexander III" ( February 26 [ March 10 ], 1896 );
- Medal "In memory of the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II" ( May 26 [ June 7 ], 1896 );
- Medal "In memory of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava" ( June 17 (30), 1909 );
- Sign "In memory of the 200th anniversary of the Senate" ( February 24 [ March 9 ] 1911 );
- Medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812" ( August 26 [ September 7 ] 1912 );
Foreign:
- Prussian Order of the Red Eagle , 3rd degree ( December 3 (15), 1897 );
- French Order of the Legion of Honor , Cavalier ( December 3 (15), 1897 );
- Persian Order of the Lion and the Sun 2nd century. (1900);
- Order of the Golden Star of Bukhara 1st st. (1900);
- Bulgarian Order "For Civil Merit" (1902);
- French Order of the Legion of Honor , officer (1903).
Notes
- ↑ Kreyd, V. Georgiy Ivanov. M. 2007.
- ↑ Odoevtseva, I. On the banks of the Seine, M. 2009. ISBN 978-5-17-054914-6 .
- ↑ Ivanov, G.V. Stories and Essays, NJ. USA, Hermitage Publishing House, 1987.
- ↑ Gorb, K. Malama and his favorite setter Dark-Willmore // "Hunting and Fishing" No. 1 (57) from 01.01.2008.
Sources
- Malama V.V. Rod Malama. Yekaterinoslav, 1912