Butenev, Apollinariy Petrovich

Born in the family of the landowner of the Kaluga province of college assessor Pyotr Semyonovich Butenev (1751-1817) and his wife Alexandra Vasilievna (1762-1804), the sister of Lieutenant General L. V. Spafaryev . He received his home education in the house of a rich neighbor - the landowner Afanasy Nikolayevich Goncharov , the grandfather of his wife A.S. Pushkin .

Since 1802 he lived in St. Petersburg in the house of Field Marshal Prince Saltykov , to whom he had letters of recommendation from the Goncharovs. Since 1804, he served in the translation office of the College of Foreign Affairs, then as secretary to the comrade of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count A. N. Saltykov . At the request of the latter, in 1810 he was identified in the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (branch of the East and the states of Southern Europe). In 1812 he was sent to the diplomatic office of Prince Bagration, where he was before the Battle of Borodino .

In 1816-1821 - Secretary of the Embassy in Constantinople , upon returning to Russia - Head of the translation expedition of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1828, he managed the field office of Count Nesselrode in the Russian-Turkish war until the capture of Varna ; in 1829 he accompanied the count to Warsaw at the coronation of Nicholas I.

From September 1829, he was charge d'affaires in Constantinople (replacing the envoy of Count A. I. Ribopier, who had gone on vacation); since the end of 1830 he was appointed ambassador and plenipotentiary minister at the Port . In 1831, during the Polish uprising , he skillfully acted against French diplomacy; in 1832 he prompted the sultan to turn to Russia for help against the Egyptian Pasha Mehmet Ali . In 1833, he signed the Unkar-Iskelesia Treaty , which closed the Dardanelles for the passage of foreign ships.

In the years 1840-1842 was on extended leave due to illness of his daughter. In 1842, in Constantinople, he carried out especially important assignments in Serbian affairs. In 1843-1855 he was an envoy in Rome. He managed to earn the trust of Pope Gregory XVI and Pope Pius IX . During the period of the Roman Revolution of 1848-1849 he was under Pope Pius IX in Gaet. In 1847, together with Count Bludov, he entered into a concordat with Roman curia .

At the end of the Crimean War in 1856 he was appointed a member of the State Council and envoy to Constantinople; successfully restored relations between Russia and Turkey. In August 1856, he was granted the position of Actual Privy Councilor . Since 1858 - in Russia.

Due to a serious deterioration in health, loss of vision and hearing, he went abroad for treatment. He died in Paris from an apoplexy blow, was buried in the Montmartre cemetery . The writer Alfons de Lamartine spoke of Butenev: “A charming and moral person, philosopher and statesman.” In 1834, D. Fickelmon wrote about him ^[3] :

A.P. Butenev left his memoirs in French, the first translation of which was printed in the Russian Archive in 1881 and 1883. In 1911, his son published them as a separate book ^[4] .

• Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1829)
• Order of St. Anne 1st Class (1830)
• Order of the White Eagle (1838)
• Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1843, diamond signs to the order - 1847)
• Order of St. Vladimir 1st degree (1858)
• Orders of Tuscany, Rome, Greece, Turkey.

The first wife (from August 26, 1823) - Varvara Ivanovna Shevich (1802–09.04.1828), daughter of the commander of the Life Guards of the Hussars Regiment, Lieutenant General Ivan Yegorovich Shevich ; niece A.H. Benckendorf . She died in April 1828 from consumption, she was buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg. She had children — Ivan (1824–1838), Alexandra (1825–27.10.1851; maid of honor of the court, died of consumption in Rome on the eve of her marriage to Count Peter Grigorievich Shuvalov , was buried there in the Protestant cemetery) and Maria (01/19/1828–? )

The second wife (since 1834) is Countess Maria Irineevna Khreptovich (1811–27.02.1890 ^[5] ), the sister of a prominent diplomat Mikhail Khreptovich ^[6] . Regarding their wedding, D. Fikelmon wrote: “Mr. Butenev came here from Constantinople to get married. His chosen one is absolutely ugly, and because of her unpretentious appearance remains inconspicuous in society. However, her friends say that she is not without talents and means. ” Died suddenly from a broken heart in February 1890 in Rome. She was buried in the Beshenkovichi estate of the Vitebsk province. I had children in marriage:

• Maria Apollinarievna (1835-1906); married to Prince Viktor Ivanovich Baryatinsky (1823-1904).
• Elena Apollinarievna (09/23/1838-1839), the goddaughter of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna.
• Mikhail Apollinarievich (1844-1897), Count Butenev-Khreptovich (1893), chamberlain, envoy to Bavaria; did not leave children.
• Konstantin Apollinarievich (1848-1933) ^[7] , captain-lieutenant of the fleet, since 1899 Count Khreptovich-Butenev; the owner of the estate Vasilyevskoye Venevsky district ^[8] . Married with his first marriage to Vera Vasilyevna Ilyina, and the second - to Countess Ekaterina Pavlovna Baranova . In his first marriage he had a son Apollinaria (1879-1946), daughters Tatyana (1884-1888), Maria (1881-1943, married to Prince G. N. Trubetskoy ) and Catherine (1878-1966, married to K. M. Onu , Head of the US Interim Government Office).

• Butenev, Apollinarii Petrovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Butenev, Apollinarii Petrovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.