Sergey Petrovich Sushkov (January 15 ( 27 ), 1816 - February 5 ( 17 ), 1893 ) - author of essays on church and theological issues. Actual State Councilor (1875).
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Biography
The son of Peter Vasilievich Sushkov (1783-1855), who resigned from the post of director of the Orenburg Customs District in 1833, and his wife Daria Ivanovna (1790-1817), nee. Pashkovoy. Grandson of the Simbirsk governor Vasily Sushkov and his wife Maria Vasilievna . Elder brother D.P. Sushkova , cousin P.V. Dolgorukov .
At the end of the course at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School , he served in the Caucasus, where he was wounded in the head - for the difference in affairs, he was awarded several orders and transferred to the guards artillery; in 1842 he retired, but during the Eastern War of 1855 he commanded the Podolsk squad of the Moscow militia. Having retired again, he left for Paris in 1857, took a large part in the journal L'union Chrétienne (Christian Unity), published later by archpriest Vasiliev and the abbot, who later became the Orthodox priest and wrote several brochures against the teachings of the Roman church .
In 1861, he was instructed by Ambassador P. D. Kiselyov to oversee the construction of the embassy Russian church in Paris. Upon returning to Russia in 1862, S. P. Sushkov entered, at the invitation of the Chief Prosecutor of the Synod Akhmatov , a service in the spiritual department and wrote: “On schools for children of clergymen” and “On innovations of Prince. Body in the Romanian church. " In 1869, Sushkov again retired, and in 1873 he entered the service of the Main Press Directorate, where he composed written reviews of Russian newspapers and magazines. In 1874-1881 he was the editor-in-chief of the “Government Gazette” .
After another resignation, he published a biography of his sister Evdokia Rostopchina and her writings [1] . In them, in particular, he wrote: “From the winter from 1836 to 1837, indelible memories of the dinners that often took place at Rostopchina took place in my memory, for which Zhukovsky, Pushkin, pr. Vyazemsky, A. I. Turgenev. His work “Against False Teaching on the Ecumenical Dominance of the Roman Church” (St. Petersburg, 1891) was awarded the Metropolitan Macarius Prize by the Academy of Sciences.
He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in St. Petersburg [2] . From his marriage to Julia Gavrilovna Arsenyeva (1838-1883), the sister of General D. G. Arsenyev , had a son Boris (1870) and a daughter Sophia (1872).
Notes
- ↑ Sushkov S. Biographical essay // Works of Countess Rostopchina // T. 1. St. Petersburg, 1890, p. Xliii.
- ↑ Sushkov, Sergey Petrovich // Petersburg Necropolis / Comp. V.I. Saitov . - SPb. : Printing house of M. M. Stasyulevich , 1913. - T. 4 (C — Ө). - S. 210.
Literature
- Sushkov Sergey Petrovich // List of civil ranks of the fourth class. Corrected on February 1, 1890. - SPb. : Printing House of the Governing Senate , 1890. - S. 150-151.
- Sushkov, Sergey Petrovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Sushkov, Sergey Petrovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
Links
- Sushkov D. To the biography of E.P. Rostopchina // Historical Bulletin, 1881. - T. 6. - No. 6. - P. 300-305.