Sverbeev, Sergey Nikolaevich

The son of the court counselor, who was an official of special assignments under the Yakutsk government, Nikolai Dmitrievich Sverbeyev (1829–1860) and his wife Zinaida Sergeevna, nee Princess Trubetskoy (1837–1924). Grandson of diplomat D. N. Sverbeev , Decembrist Sergey Trubetskoy and Catherine Laval-Trubetskoy .

He graduated from the Moscow 1st Gymnasium (1876) and the law faculty of Moscow University with a degree in law (1880). Upon graduation from the university, he entered the Cavalry Guard Regiment , where he stayed for one year and went to the rank of cornet to devote himself to civil service.

At the beginning of his career, he ranked in the Ministry of the Interior , where he remained until 1884, when he moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . In 1885, he served as the clerk of the second expedition of the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then was at the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the staff. In 1888 he became the 3rd Secretary of the Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1899 he was granted the title of court chamberlain . In 1891 he was sent to the embassy in Constantinople , where since 1892 was an assistant secretary. In 1894, he was appointed 2nd secretary of the embassy in Vienna , and in 1896 - 1st secretary of the mission in Munich . From 1898, he was the 1st secretary, and from 1904, he was an advisor to the embassy in Vienna. In 1910 he was appointed extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister in Greece .

In 1912, after the death of Count Osten-Sacken , he was appointed ambassador to Berlin . He was concurrently the honorary chairman of the Orthodox Holy Prince Vladimir Brotherhood and supported his plans to build the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Andrew the First-Called in Berlin. Based on the information at his disposal, he warned the tsarist government that Germany was preparing a war against Russia. May 6, 1914 produced in the secret advisers . Since the beginning of World War I was recalled from Berlin to Petrograd.

After the October Revolution he emigrated to Berlin, where he became one of the founders and a member of the board of the Union of Property Owners in Russia. He was buried at the Russian Orthodox cemetery Tegel ^[1] .

He was married to Anna Vasilyevna Bezobrazova. Their kids:

• Dmitry (1889–1940), graduate of the Corps of Pages . In emigration in Germany, buried in the Tegel cemetery.
• Nikolay (1891–1914), the participant of the First World War, was killed on October 18, 1914.
• Vladimir (1892-1951), a graduate of Moscow University, a member of the White movement in southern Russia. In emigration to France.
• Sergei (1897-1966), the volunteer Life Guards Cuirassier His Majesty's regiment . In emigration in France, buried in the cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois .

• Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1888);
• Order of St. Anne 2nd century. (1896);
• Order of St. Vladimir 4th century (1901);
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd century. (1909);
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1912);
• Order of St. Anne 1st st. (1913).
• medal "In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III"
• Medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the house of Romanov"

Foreign:

• Turkish Order of Medzhidiye 3rd Art. (1894);
• Bavarian Order of Merit of St. Michael , Commander's Cross (1897);
• Bulgarian Order "For Civil Merit" 2 nd Art. with a star (1898);
• The Austrian Order of the Iron Crown 2nd Art. (1903);
• Montenegrin Order of Prince Daniel I 2 nd Art. with a star (1906);
• Austrian Order of Franz Joseph , officer's cross (1910);
• Greek Order of the Savior 1st century. (1912);
• Prussian Order of the Red Eagle , a large cross (1913).

• The ranks of the Court, the retinues of Their Majesties and the nobility of the Russian Empire. - K. , 1913.
• List of civil ranks of the first three classes. Corrected on September 1, 1914. - Pg. , 1914. - p. 723.
• Karl Schloegel . Chronik russischen Lebens in Deutschland 1918–1941 (Chronicle of Russian life in Germany in 1918–1941) - B .: Akademie-Verlag, 1999 (him)
• Fraternal Messenger. - № 21. - Bad Kissingen, 2006.
• Popov, A. N. Russian Berlin. - M .: Veche, 2010. - ISBN 978-5-9533-4275-9

• Short biography S. N. Sverbeeva
• Tegel Russian Orthodox Cemetery in Berlin