Palen, Konstantin Konstantinovich

Hereditary nobleman of the Courland province. The son of a statesman Konstantin Ivanovich Palen , the great-grandson of the cavalry general Count Peter Alekseevich Palen , who led the plot against Emperor Paul I.

In 1882 he graduated from the Imperial College of Law and entered the service of the Ministry of Justice ^[1] . He was seconded to study in the 6th Department of the Governing Senate, where he stayed until 1887, when he was appointed correspondent of the Main Directorate of State Horse Breeding in the Courland Province.

The court ranks: "in the position of master of ceremonies" (1897), "in the position of clerk of the master" (1903). Ranks: Actual State Councilor (1904), Privy Councilor (1906), Hoffmeister (1906).

In 1889, the count took up the post of commissar for peasant affairs in the Goldingeng district, in 1893 he was appointed honorary magistrate of the Vindava-Goldingeng district, in 1895 he was appointed an indispensable member of the Courland provincial for peasant affairs presence, and in 1896 he was honored magistrate of the Mitava district. In the same year he took part in the ceremonial coronation of Nicholas II and the Empress as an assistant to the ceremonies of the master.

In 1897 he was appointed Warsaw Vice Governor , in 1900 - transferred to the post of Pskov Vice Governor , moreover, he repeatedly served as governor, in 1902 he was appointed correcting the position of Vilnius Governor , approved in 1904 and held this position until December 15 1905 year. In 1903 he compiled a secret memorandum on the situation of Jews in Russia (published in 1904 in Geneva by the General Jewish Labor Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia) and submitted it to the commission on the revision of the current legislation on Jews under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He considered it necessary to repeal the law of 1882, which inflicted a blow, according to P., on the poor, non-dangerous sections of the population, which led to the impoverishment of the working part of Jewry. He advocated the speedy abolition of all restrictive laws within the framework of “Jewish settledness”, for the intensification of repressive measures against the “manifestations of the harmful aspects of Jewry” by individuals, for the reorganization of the Jewish clergy, the introduction of civil status officials, the removal of Jewish youth from Christian schools and the establishment of special primary and secondary schools under the guidance of Christian teachers.

March 15, 1906 he was appointed senator, present in the 1st department, and was granted the rank of hofmeister .

Permanent member of the government at the Board of Trustees Petrishula and Petrikirche .

In the same year, the Courland nobility, he was elected deputy member of the Council, established by the interim Baltic Governor General to discuss the necessary reforms in the province. On March 19, 1908, the Senatorial revision of the Turkestan Territory was entrusted to him by the Highest Decree. In their estates in Courland province. (Alt-Schwarden, Gross-Auz, Keveln) developed cattle breeding, horse breeding, dairy production and forestry. In September 1916, deprived of the court rank.

After 1917 in exile in Germany.

In 1890 he married Baroness Sofya Nikolaevna Nikolai (1862-1943). Their kids:

• Margarita Konstantinovna (1891—?);
• Sofia Konstantinovna (1892-1906);
• Elena Konstantinovna (1894—?), Married to Paul Boole (? -?), Pastor in Philadelphia, USA;
• Nikolai Konstantinovich (1896-1963), studied at the School of Law and the Page Corps (until March 1, 1917), then ensign of the Life Guards of the Horse Regiment, lived in exile in Finland, married twice: since 1922 to Alexander Astashova (? —1924) , since 1933 on Tatyana Alexandrovna Pistolkors (1910—?).

• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd century;
• Order of St. Anne , 3rd century;
• Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd art. (1896);
• The highest gratitude (1897);
• Order of St. Anne, 2nd century;
• Royal favor (1901),
• Order of St. Vladimir , 4th century;
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. (1906);
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st st .;
• Order of St. Anne 1st Art. (1910);
• Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd century;
• Order of the White Eagle (1912);
• Highest Thanks (1913).

• medal “In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III”
• medal "For the works of the first general census" (1897)
• Medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty” (1913)

• Speech by the Vilnius Governor Count K.K. Palen and the reports read at the Congress on November 27-29, 1903 with the introduction of the Regulation on the Zemsky Chiefs of Vilna in the Vilnius Province: Lip. typ., 1904.
• Secret memorandum of the governor of Vilna on the situation of Jews in Russia / Palen; Universal Heb. labor union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia Geneva, 1904.
• Report on the audit of the Turkestan Territory, carried out at the highest command by Senator Hoffmeister Count K.K. Palen: [1] -
• The most comprehensive note containing the most important conclusions of the Report on the production in 1908-1909. ... Senator Hoffmeister Count K.K. Palen of the revision of the Turkestan Territory: Ch. - St. Petersburg. : Senate. typ., 1910.
• Prison Case: Turkestan Audit Report. edges, produ. high decree by the senator hoffmeister count K.K. Palen. - SPb. : Senate. typ., 1910.

• Governing Senate. - SPb. : Typography of the St. Petersburg Solitary Prison. 1912. - S. 147
• List of civilian ranks of the first three classes. Corrected on September 1, 1914. - Pg. , 1914 .-- S. 342.

• Julia Moshnik, Mikhail Efimov . Palenie // Vyborg newspaper No. 159 (17514), October 23, 2015.