Arseniev, Julius Konstantinovich

Born in the family of statistics and geographer, academician Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev . He graduated from Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in 1838 (issue IX). His classmates included future economist Konstantin Veselovsky , future foreign minister Nikolai Girs and poet Alexander Yakhontov .

He entered the service of the committee’s office on March 23, 1840, receiving the rank of chamber junker . Already in 1842 he retired. During a trip to the Caucasian Mineral Waters, he met with Lermontov . He was friends with his peer, Prince Vasilchikov , who became Lermontov’s second in a fatal duel and wrote about it in a letter to Arsenyev ^[1] .

In 1848, he was appointed in the Ministry of the Interior as Acting Head of the Department of the Department of General Affairs. Soon promoted to special duties officer under the minister.

He conducted an expedition to the territory of the Novgorod province in order to study and statistical description of the local communities of Old Believers . Arsenyev’s detailed reports are still an important source for scientists ^[2] .

He was seconded to Tsaritsyn in the summer of 1860 to the place of construction of the Volga-Don railway after the start of a workers' strike and the report of the adjutant wing Ryleyev about their ill-treatment. As a result of the investigation, Arsenyev was brought to trial by the Tsaritsyn city mayor Treskin, the police officer Dyachenkov and the judge of the Zemstvo court Natta. ^[3] .

In 1861, he was appointed the rank of full state adviser to the Smolensk governor . Fifteen months later, the governor transferred to the Olonets province ^[4] .

Olonets Governor

Julius Konstantinovich Arseniev became a key figure in carrying out the "great reforms" in the province. In 1862-1863, he forced the head of the Olonets mining factories Nikolai Felkner ^{[5] to} free 25 thousand assigned peasants from compulsory work. The final will, with the resistance of Felkner, the peasants received in April 1864, 3 months later than the deadline established by law ^[6] . Before the introduction of the zemstvo self-government system, Arsenyev proposed as an experiment to admit not only nobles, merchants and peasants to the elected organs of the province, but also small educated officials . The proposals were sent to the Ministry of the Interior in December 1864, but Alexander II issued a decree on the extension of the Zemstvo reform to the Olonets province on a common basis.

In 1865, with the permission of Emperor Alexander II, the Petrozavodsk City Council awarded Arsenyev the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Petrozavodsk” , with the wording: “for the efforts and cares to improve internal and external well-being”; Awarding took place on February 4 ^[7] .

In June 1864, the ill father of Arsenyev was transferred from the capital to Petrozavodsk and lived here until his death in December 1865.

Arsenyev supported the provincial assembly after his first election in 1866. Using his own connections, he helped the new chairman of the zemstvo council, merchant Efim Pimenov ^[8], enter the "Commission for the collection and distribution of benefits to Russian residents affected by crop failure" in 1866-1868, which brought significant benefits from the imperial treasury to the region.

In 1868 he received the rank of Privy Councilor .

After the institute of magistrates was introduced in 1870, being a lawyer by training, he was elected an honorary magistrate for Petrozavodsk Uyezd and for several months assumed the duties of chairman of the congress of magistrates of the Petrozavodsk-Povenets district. He allocated in his own apartment rooms for sittings of the magistrate court and the office.

With a lack of funds in the local budget, he organized a collection of donations to the Mariinsky Women's School and provided him with a stone building. Introduced night fire guards in the city, built a new public marina. He called for appointing fees in favor of the province from the state lands and forests located on its territories. He drew the attention of the Senate to this question in 1869. It was resolved positively after Arsenyev’s transfer to Tula.

Tula Governor

In Tula, Arseniev governed for almost 3 years. He established in Tula intracity mail, which his predecessor refused to create. Responding to a letter from the manager of the postal part of the Tula province in July 1871, Arseniev proposed:

“In order for this institution to bring residents a real service, it is necessary to establish the delivery of letters at least twice a day, and at the same time increase the number of mailboxes now available, arranging special mailboxes for city mail, following the example of St. Petersburg and Moscow.”

- The history of the institution in Tula city post (neopr.) . The official website of the federal postal service of the Tula region. Date of treatment May 31, 2012. Archived September 23, 2012.

Father Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev came from a priest's family, held to liberal convictions and received hereditary nobility for personal merits, including the training of young Alexander II in history and geography.

Mother Maria Karlovna was a German, Lutheran , daughter of the Kostroma governor Karl Ivanovich Baumgarten , a descendant of the Swedish noble family.

His first wife was a graduate of the Smolny Institute , the daughter of a second lieutenant Olga Andreevna Perkhurova, who gave birth to three sons of Arsenyev. The second wife was the daughter of General D.T. Parentsova Sofya Dmitrievna, who created a charity in Petrozavodsk and wrote several books for children. Vera, the daughter of Arsenyev and Sofya Dmitrievna, became the head of the Tsarskoye Selo school for girls of clergy.

• N.A. Korablev , T.A. Moshina. Olonets governors and governor-generals: Biographical reference book. - Petrozavodsk: “Building Standard”, 2012. - S. 88-94. - 140 p. - ISBN 5-87870-010-7 .
• Arseniev, Julius Konstantinovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.