Turgenev, Alexander Mikhailovich

Son of Mikhail Mikhailovich Turgenev (1743-98) and Anna, daughter of Bogdan Umsky . Enrolled in service on February 11, 1786 by a non-commissioned officer of the Life Guards Horse Regiment; On December 18, 1796, the Yekaterinoslav Cuirassier Regiment was transferred by the cornet and appointed adjutant to Prince G. S. Volkonsky . From May 1799 to September 18, 1803, A. M. Turgenev was adjutant to the Moscow Governor-General, Count I. P. Saltykov .

On the advice of Countess Saltykova, he retired in 1803 and in 1803–1806 he attended a science course in Gottingen . In addition to the course in philosophy, law and natural sciences, Turgenev thoroughly studied French and German literature. After returning from abroad on April 15, 1811, Turgenev was appointed adjutant to Duke Alexander of Württemberg . April 1, 1812 he was appointed divisional adjutant to the commander of the 1st Grenadier Division , Adjutant General Count P. A. Stroganov ; participated in the battle of Borodino , - was contused and awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree with a bow. By injury, he was fired on May 1, 1814 by a captain with his uniform.

After treatment abroad, Turgenev entered the civil service as the manager of Theodosia Customs, then the district customs head of Brest-Litovsk and then Astrakhan ; On December 12, 1823, he was appointed Tobolsk civil governor . In March 1825, Turgenev was unexpectedly dismissed with the removal of the rank of state councilor, according to the intrigues of the governor-general of Western Siberia, P. M. Kaptsevich . In May 1826, by the highest decree of Emperor Nicholas I, he was restored by rank, and in 1828 he was appointed governor of Kazan ; however, on December 27 of the same year, he passed, at the request of Minister of the Interior A. A. Zakrevsky , director of the medical department. He was granted the rank of state councilor for successful activity, however, he was soon accused of unauthorized spending of state sums and was forced to resign. However, Nicholas I did not accept the resignation, but, having dismissed Turgenev from the post of director of the medical department, ordered him to be counted among the heralds .

In the end, receiving the distinction of the immaculate service, tired of 44 years of service, A. M. Turgenev retired. In the 1850s, young writers gathered at his apartment on Millionnaya Street and read their works. Here I. S. Turgenev for the first time read his story “ Mumu ”, L. N. Tolstoy - his “Military Stories”; V.Potkin , Ya.P. Polonsky , I.A. Goncharov , A.V. Druzhinin immediately read their works; N. A. Milyutin and many other leaders for the emancipation of the peasants were there too.

The manifesto on February 19, 1861 was received with enthusiasm; he wrote to his daughter:

Yesterday the work on earth was truly great, Christian, and it never happened before yesterday! The pious and complacent tsar and autocrat of Orthodox Russia destroyed and forever crushed the shackles, riveting 23 million to the ground, as if an inanimate tree had attached roots that were deeply rooted in the earth without Malagá century. 23 million people enslaved to bestial existence, revived in human life, opened millions of eyes and mouth, revived in millions of human consciousness that it was not a beast, not a thing, that it would not be sold like a bull or changed into a greyhound dog

At 62, A. M. Turgenev married (April 17, 1835) Pauline (Pelagia Christianovna) Litke (born in St. Petersburg on October 4, 1807, died in Moscow on February 11, 1836), from whom he had a daughter, Olga (born January 28 1836), the goddaughter of V. A. Zhukovsky , with whom he corresponded for 30 years. Olga knew I. S. Turgenev and L. N. Tolstoy well . From marriage to a Uhlan officer Sergey N. Somov had a son, Alexander , a state councilor in charge, the consul general in Korea .

1. Notes of Alexander Mikhailovich Turgenev. 1772–1863. // Russian antiquity .
   • 1885 - T. 47 - No. 9 - p. 365-390 ;
   • 1885 - T. 48 - № 10 - p. 55-82 ;
   • 1885 - T. 48 - № 11 - p. 247-282 ;
   • 1885 - T. 48 - № 12 - p. 473-486 ;
   • 1886 - T. 49 - № 1 - P. 39–62 ;
   • 1886 - T. 52 - № 10 - p. 45-76 ;
   • 1886 - T. 52 - № 11 - p. 259–284 ;
   • 1887 - T. 53 - № 1 - P. 77-106 ;
   • 1887 - T. 53 - № 2 - p. 329-342 ;
   • 1889 - T. 61 - № 2 - p. 209-230 ;
   • 1889 - T. 62 - № 4 - p . 183-220 .
2. Notes A. M. Turgenev (1796-1801 g) // Russian antiquity.
   • 1895 - T. 83 - № 5 - p. 45-51 ;
   • 1895 - T. 83 - № 6 - P. 39–46 ;
   • 1895 - T. 84 - № 7 - p . 73–88 .
3. Stories A. M. Turgenev about Empress Catherine II // Russian antiquity. - 1897 - T. 89 - № 1 - p . 171-176 .

• Preface to the Notes of Alexander Mikhailovich Turgenev // Russian Antiquity. - 1885 - T. 47 - No. 9 - P. 365-390
• Turgenev, Alexander Mikhailovich on the " Rodovide ". Tree of ancestors and descendants