Averin, Pavel Ivanovich

The son of a Moscow merchant, born in 1775. He studied at the Moscow gymnasium for raznochintsy , and then at Moscow University , however, without completing the course, he entered the service in 1794 in the city of Korocha, Kursk province , during the governorship of A. A. Bekleshov , who soon took him to his office, ruled by an older brother, Peter Ivanovich Averin . Having made Averin his secretary, Bekleshov no longer parted with him, serving in Kursk , Kamenets , Kiev and St. Petersburg . Under the successor of Bekleshov, P.K. Obolyaninov , Averin retained secretarial duties.

With the reign of Alexander I , when Bekleshov again took the post of Attorney General, Averin continued to remain secretary and was dismissed only with the appointment of Prosecutor General Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin , who secured Averin a full salary in retirement. With these funds, Averin left for Derpt and enlisted as a volunteer at the university, hoping to devote his life to her, which, however, did not happen. Bekleshov was appointed governor-general to Moscow and in 1804 summoned Averin to his post as ruler of the office. Averin, who was promoted to the rank of state adviser , served until Bekleshov’s dismissal and, with his dismissal in 1806, received annual leave abroad, but was again called from Königsberg by the head of the 2nd police gathering area. Averina was charged with inspecting the police in the Pskov province and the Ostsee region . For his activities in this field, he was awarded the Order of Vladimir of the 4th degree.

The conclusion of the Tilsit Peace suspended the police gathering, but its disbandment did not follow. Bekleshov died in 1808 in Riga ; Averin had to turn in business. After the surrender, he stayed to live in the Ostsee region, and spent the summer in Crimea . He again entered the service only in 1811 as an officer of special assignments under the Minister of Police A.D. Balashov and then under S.K. Vyazmitinov .

In 1813, becoming Minister of Justice, I. I. Dmitriev offered Averin a place in the Duchy of Warsaw , in civil administration. Averina was identified by the head of the former Warsaw Duchy of V.S. Lanskoy as the head of the region of the Krakow Department, where there was not a single body of Russian power, and the Polish population considered themselves to be Saxon citizenship. Averin was able to fulfill these orders: to take away weapons, send all the money found there in Warsaw and bring the city of Krakow to the oath of the Russian emperor.

Averin remained in Krakow until 1815. From here they appointed him to Frankfurt as the commissar of the Russian region, to the liquidation commission on food troops in Germany. The Russian region included: Bavaria , Württemberg , Baden , Hessian and Saxon possessions (with 19 small German lands). Averin's assistants were appointed: General Sukharev and Medic Einerling. Their responsibilities included the creation of hospitals for 30,000 beds and the preparation of reserves along the route of movement of the Russian troops. After successfully conducting business in Frankfurt, Averin was transferred on July 10, 1817 to Königsberg, to the liquidation commission established in 1813. Here Averin saved large sums of money, without confirming without checking the huge accounts of local contractors, despite the complaints of the Prussian commissar general. As a result of the comments made by Averin in Moscow during the verification of accounts, EF Kankrin was called to negotiate the final approval of settlements with Prussia . After signing the ratification on August 19 (31), 1818, the Konigsberg commission was closed, and Averin was awarded the Order of St. Annas of the 1st degree, orders of various German rulers and two snuffboxes .

Averin arrived in St. Petersburg and in March 1820 was appointed general manager of the 1st Army, but refused this appointment, moved to Derpt , married Amalia Einike and lived in retirement for about a year. Emperor Alexander I summoned him to Laibach to carry out personal assignments, intending to send troops to Italy to pacify the carbonaries. Averin was supposed to manage food under the troops. On Easter Day, 1821, he received a lifetime pension. No troops were required, and Averin through Venice and Trieste returned to Dorpat, where he spent time until his wife went abroad.

In 1822, Averin came to the capital to ask the Minister of the Interior, Lansky, to give him the position of official of special assignments. In this position, Averin and Dr. Savenko in 1827 were sent to explore the Caucasian mineral waters . A special committee of three members was established to manage their affairs: Averin, Major General Sazonov, and Life Physician Creighton . At the same time, Averin was appointed a member of the committee to consider a draft amendment to the noble elections, in the activities of which he, however, did not have to participate due to the appointment of the Volyn governor. Managing the province from April 18, 1828 to April 6, 1831, Averin was in charge of the movement and food supplies of troops to the borders of Turkey, at the beginning of the war. Then, he took measures against the invasion of Polish rebels, after the troops left Warsaw during the Polish uprising (in November 1830), as well as against the cholera epidemic .

In 1831, Averin requested his dismissal and visited Kursk, Petersburg and Finland . On July 6, 1833, he was appointed Governor of Bessarabia , where his career ended when he retired on August 28, 1834. He spent the last years of his life traveling: in 1840 - to Sweden and Lubeck , in 1845 - to Germany , France and England, and in 1847 - to southern France and Italy . He died on November 21, 1849.

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