Baron Egor Fedorovich von Völkerszam ( Georg Friedrich von Völkerszam ; German Georg Friedrich von Fölkersahm ; November 10, 1766 , Steinensee estate, Courland [1] - November 18, 1848 , Riga ) - Russian statesman, secret adviser (1835), civil governor Lyfian provinces (1829–1847).
| Egor Fedorovich von Völkersham | |||||||
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| him Georg Friedrich von Fölkersahm | |||||||
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| Monarch | Nikolay I | ||||||
| Predecessor | Pavel Vasilievich Gan | ||||||
| Successor | Maxim Antonovich Essen | ||||||
| Birth | November 10, 1766 estate Steinense, Kurland [1] | ||||||
| Death | November 18, 1848 (82 years) Riga | ||||||
| Rod | Volkers | ||||||
| Birth name | Georg Friedrich von Volkersham | ||||||
| Father | Gotthard Friedrich von Volkersham | ||||||
| Mother | Anna Louise von Plater | ||||||
| Spouse | Gottlieb Voigt | ||||||
| Children | Amalia , Juliana, Theodore, Edmund, Valerian, Eugene, Hamilcar | ||||||
| Education | University of Gottingen | ||||||
| Religion | Lutheranism | ||||||
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Biography
Born on the estate of Steinense in Kurland (now Stelmuzze in Zarasai district of Lithuania). Until 1781, he received his home education, in 1785 he graduated from the Miava gymnasium ; in 1786-1789 he attended lectures at the University of Göttingen .
During the Russian-Polish war of 1792, at the invitation of the Duke of Courland, Peter served as general commissioner for the supply of Russian troops along the Courland border, for which in 1795 he was granted the rank of collegiate assessor and was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree. In the same year he was elected secretary of the Courland nobility; in this position, among the six authorized delegates, signed in St. Petersburg an act of subordination of Kurland to the Russian Empire (1795). In 1801, in the deputation of the Courland nobility, in St. Petersburg he offered congratulations to Emperor Alexander I on the occasion of his accession to the throne and was present at the coronation in Moscow. He was sent by the Courland nobility to Petersburg also in 1803 and 1807. In 1809–1812 - Advisor to the provincial government. From July to November 1812, when the enemy army joined the Baltic provinces, he was in St. Petersburg. From November 1812, he served in Riga in the office of the military governor and commander-in-chief of the Marquis Paulucci district, and with him participated in the expedition to Memel and corrected the position of general-occupant in this city. C 1813 - ruler of the office of the Governor-General of Livonia. In 1818–1821 A member of the Mitavian Masonic Lodge of the Three Crowned Swords. In 1826 he was granted a full member of the State Councilors . In 1829-1847 - Livonian civil governor . In 1847 he retired due to age and died soon after.
Family
Wife (from 1795) - Benigna Gottlieb Voigt (1771–1861); children (wore baronial title):
- Amalia Eleonora Carolina Constance (Amalia Georgievna ; 1799–1864), married to Mikhail Alexandrovich von Mengden (1781–1855); one of the first women entrepreneurs in the textile industry of Russia, in 1830-1864. managed her husband's linen factory ;
- Juliana Dorothea Caroline Gottlieb (Lilly) (1801–1876);
- Johann Gotthard Emmanuel Theodore (1802–1871), Russian Consul General in Paris ;
- Johann Friedrich Melchior Edmund (Ivan Egorovich; 1803–1869), Major General, in 1828 - Adjutant I.F. Paskevich [2] ;
- Karl Valerian (1807–1886);
- Fabian Johann Eugene (1809–1883), married to Maria Constance von Fitinghoff-Shel; served on the board of the Baltic State Enterprises, was;
- Hamilcar (1811-1856), Livonia Landmarshal (provincial leader of the nobility) in 1848-1851.
Notes
Literature
- Russian Archive. - 1869. - Vol. eleven.
- Felkerzam Egor Fedorovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary: 25 tons. / Under the supervision of A. A. Polovtsov. - M., 1896-1918. - T. 28. - p. 42.
- C. Haus Steinensee // Stavenhagen O. Genealogisches Handbuch der kurländischen Ritterschaft. - Görlitz, 1939. - Bd. one.
- Allgemeine Schriftsteller- und Gelehrten-Lexicon / Hrsg. von Recke und Napiersky. - Bd. 1. - S. 589-590.
- Nachträge und Fortsetzungen. - Bd. 1. - S. 197.
Links
- Golubev E. Von Felkerszamy . Prose. The appeal date is December 13, 2012. Archived December 17, 2012.
- Felkerszam, Yegor Fedorovich // Russian biographical dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.