Sverbeev, Dmitry Nikolaevich

It comes from a South Russian noble family . His father, Nikolai Yakovlevich Sverbeev (1740-1814), graduated from the cunk school under the Moscow Senate, served in the infantry regiment and participated in the defense of Tsaritsyn, besieged by Emelyan Pugachev. He was a freemason "great master of the box" in Orel . Mother, Ekaterina Vasilievna Obreskova (1763-1801), was the sister of senator N.V. Obreskov . She died at the birth of the second son of Jacob (1801-1801).

He received his primary education at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum , in 1810 he entered the service of the provincial registrar in the Office of the Moscow Civil Governor. In 1814-1817 he studied at Moscow University at the Faculty of Law. After receiving a certificate, he entered the service in St. Petersburg in the Commission of petitions in the highest name, the head of which was his relative P.A. Kikin . Thanks to his troubles in 1824, Sverbeev was promoted to attaché to the Russian embassy in Geneva . In the summer of 1824 in Bern met P. Ya. Chaadaev .

Returning to Russia in 1826, he continued to serve in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In January 1827 he was transferred to the Moscow Archive . In 1829 he was appointed chief overseer of the Commission for the Printing of Letters and Agreements, headed by A.F. Malinovsky . In 1830, with the rank of court adviser, he retired and settled in Moscow, where he became close friends with A.S. Pushkin .

The Sverbeev literary salon was visited on Fridays by famous people of his time - V. A. Zhukovsky , I. A. Krylov , N. V. Gogol , A. I. Turgenev , P. Ya. Chaadaev, N. M. Yazykov , later representatives of the Slavophils and Westerners. The Philosophical and Literary Salon was located first on Strastnoy Boulevard , then on Tversky Boulevard , and since the end of the 1840s in Bolshoi Nikolaevsky Lane. Sverbeev himself actively participated in public life, representing the liberal trend.

He spent his last years in Switzerland, where he wrote his memoirs. He died on February 13, 1874. He was buried next to his son Nikolai in a crypt under the Nikolaev chapel of the Intercession Church of the village of Setukha of the Novosilsky district of the Tula province ^[1] .

From 1827 he was married to Princess Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatova (1808–1892), daughter of Prince Alexander Fedorovich Shcherbatov (1778–1817) and Varvara Petrovna Obolenskaya (1774–1843). Known as a friend of P. Ya. Chaadayev and N. Gogol, with whom she became especially close after his final return to Russia, helped him financially. Baratynsky dedicated a poem to her: “ In our sky it disappears and is proud of her beauty ... ” They had children in marriage:

• Nikolai Dmitrievich (1829-1860), he graduated from the historical and philological department of Moscow University ^[2] , an official on special assignments on the diplomatic part in the office of the Irkutsk Governor-General N. N. Muravyov . Since 1856 he was married to Zinaida, the daughter of the Decembrist S. P. Trubetskoy ; they have a son, Sergei .
• Varvara Dmitrievna (born 1831), married since 1854 to Lev Ivanovich Arnoldi (1822-1860).
• Ekaterina Dmitrievna (1832-1897)
• Alexander Dmitrievich (1835-1917), senator, married to Vera Fedorovna von Mengren.
• Sofya Dmitrievna (1843-1903), did not want to marry, spent her whole life with her father and mother.
• Olga Dmitrievna
• Anna (Agnia) Dmitrievna
• Mikhail Dmitrievich (1843-1903), served in the office of the Kiev governor-general, later in Voronezh, married to Maria Vyacheslavovna Shidlovskaya (1853-1912).
• Dmitry Dmitrievich (1845-1921), chamberlain and Courland governor.

• Two fates. Historical essay
• B. Kraevsky. Dmitry Nikolaevich Sverbeev // Chimes: Historical and Local Lore Almanac. Issue 2. - M .: Moscow Worker, 1987.