Sergey Alekseevich [1] Sheremetev (March 24, 1836 - December 16, 1896) - Russian military commander from the Sheremetev family: adjutant general (1879), cavalry general (August 30, 1891), commander of the Kuban region (1882–1884), commander of the Caucasian troops Military District (1890-1896).
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| Place of Birth | Moscow province Russian empire | ||||||||||||
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| Place of death | St. Petersburg Russian empire | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1853-1896 | ||||||||||||
| Rank | cavalry general adjutant general | ||||||||||||
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Biography
Born March 24, 1836 in the family of the former Decembrist Alexei Vasilyevich Sheremetev and his wife Ekaterina Sergeevna .
He was educated at the school of guards sub-ensigns and cavalry junkers , from where on August 13, 1853 he entered service as a cornet to the Hussars of His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich regiment. The following year he was transferred to the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment , from November 21, 1854 - lieutenant .
In 1855, he was appointed to be under the Commander-in-Chief of the Separate Caucasian Corps and participated in the following affairs and movements of the main Alexandropol detachment: on September 17, during the assault by Russian units of the Kars fortress, 23 enemy guns were captured and 14 banners and badges were taken. On November 16, at the surrender of the Kars fortress with full armament: about 130 guns up to 26,000 rifles, fittings and carbines, 12 regimental, 18 other parts of the banners and all the treasury property in general. From November 25 to December 10 during the dissolution of the Alexandropol detachment into winter apartments. In 1856 he was enlisted in the army cavalry, with the appointment on December 22, 1856 to be for the Special Assignment under the Commander-in-Chief of the Caucasian Army.
In 1858, from July 22 to September 1, he was on an expedition to the Lezgi detachment. For the feats and courage shown, he was awarded the Order of St. George of the 4th degree. In 1859, he was under the personal command of the Commander-in-Chief of the Caucasian Army in a detachment on the left wing of the Caucasian line , taking part in numerous affairs and movements against the highlanders in the same year, was appointed an adjutant to His Imperial Majesty and transferred to the Life Guards Horse-Grenadier Regiment . From March 24, 1859, he was headquarters captain .
In 1860 he took part in the actions of the main Shapsug detachment. In 1861 he participated in classes on the construction of the Abadzhez cordon line. In the same year, on July 11, he was transferred to the Kuban Cossack army as a lieutenant colonel . For difference in affairs with the highlanders, he was awarded gold weapons with the inscription "For Courage" [2] and the Order of St. Stanislav of the 2nd degree with swords. Then on November 13 he was appointed commander of the 13th regiment of the Kuban Cossack army, in 1863 he was appointed commander, and on April 19, 1864 he was commander of His Majesty’s convoy with the production of colonels .
April 16, 1872 promoted to major general , with the appointment to the retinue of His Majesty . On August 12, 1876 he was appointed commander of the Consolidated Caucasian Cossack Division. In 1877, he was part of the existing corps on the Caucasian-Turkish border and for the difference that appeared on May 4 and 5 of the same year, he was awarded the Order of St. Anna of the 1st degree with swords when taking Ardagan , and for the special difference in cases against the Turks from September 20 to 4 October 1877 awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 2 degrees with swords.
In 1877 he was appointed head of the Sarykamyshsky, then units of the Erzurum detachment, finally the commander of the 1st Caucasian artillery division. In the same year, on November 6, for the difference in cases against the Turks, he was promoted to lieutenant general . On January 21, 1879 he was appointed head of the 2nd Caucasian Cavalry Division and adjutant general to His Imperial Majesty. On January 23, 1882 he was appointed chief of the Kuban region and the ataman of the Kuban Cossack army . On January 8, 1884, he was appointed assistant chief of the civilian unit in the Caucasus and commander of the troops of the Caucasian military district. On June 3, 1890, he was appointed the Chief of the Civil Unit in the Caucasus and commander of the troops of the Caucasian Military District. In December 1896, due to illness, he was dismissed at the request of his posts and was appointed a member of the Council of State , but died a week later in his 61st year of life.
He was buried in the crypt of the Trinity Church of the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery in the Zvenigorod district of Moscow province [3] .
He was listed by the guards cavalry, on the lists of the Terek Cossack army in the village of Yessentuki and the Kuban Cossack army in the village of Batalpashinskaya ("honorary old man").
As of 1896 he had the following awards:
- Order of St. George 4th degree (1859)
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree with swords (1861)
- Golden checker with the inscription "For courage" (1861)
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree (1865)
- Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree (1867)
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1869)
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1875)
- Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd degree with swords (1877)
- Order of St. Anne 1st degree with swords (1877)
- Order of the White Eagle (1883)
- Order of St. Alexander Nevsky , decorated with diamonds (1886)
- Order of St. Vladimir 1st degree (1896)
- Diamond ring
- Medal "For the conquest of Chechnya and Dagestan"
- Medal "In memory of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878"
- Medal "For the Conquest of the Western Caucasus"
- Medal "In memory of the war of 1853-1856"
- Medal in memory of the centennial of the military order of St. Great Martyr and Victorious George
- Medal "In memory of the coronation of Emperor Alexander III"
Foreign:
- Portrait of a Persian Shah decorated with diamonds
- Italian Order of the Saints of Mauritius and Lazarus (1891)
- Bukhara Order of the Rising Star with diamonds (1893)
- Bukhara Order of the Crown of the 3rd degree with diamonds (1895)
Family
Sergei Alekseevich was married to His Grace Princess Eudokia Borisovna Golitsyna (1848-1910), daughter of the Adjutant General of His Grace Prince BD Golitsyn . For the merits of her husband, made cavalier lady of the Order of St. Catherine 2 tbsp . A relative of her husband, Count V.V. Musin-Pushkin, wrote: “His wife, Evdokia Borisovna, nee Svet. Princess Golitsyna, she loved in her life only her husband, two sons and a senseless waste of money, which was all scattered in the wind. But she died in almost complete poverty, which she endured with great dignity and humility at the foot of Ararat, curing and helping the local population working on cotton plantations, where she and her sons remained a share in the joint-stock company. In appearance, she was a thick, cheerful laugh, and no one in her youth knew how to laugh so infectiously as she was ” [4] . Children:
- Boris (1871-1952), officer of the Cavalier Guard regiment, marriage to Princess Elizabeth Alexandrovna Bagration-Mukhranska (1880-1915) ended in divorce; after the revolution he lived in Paris.
- Alexey (1872-1930), emigrated to Italy, died in Naples.
Notes
- ↑ In a number of biographical sources, in particular in ESB , the erroneous patronymic Aleksandrovich is used.
- ↑ E.E. Ismailov. Golden weapon with the inscription "For courage." Lists of gentlemen 1788-1913. - Moscow, 2007, p. 253
- ↑ Sheremetevsky V.V. Sheremetev Sergey Alekseevich // Russian Provincial Necropolis / Publisher led. Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich . - M .: Tipo-lit. t-va I.N. Kushnerev and Co. °, 1914. - T. 1. - P. 957. - IX, 1008 p.
- ↑ Count Vl. Musin-Pushkin. The Golden Age of the Russian family // Sheremetevs in the history of Russia: Memories. Diaries. Letters // Avt.-sost. A.I. Alekseev, M.D. Kovalev. Publishing house "Belfry", 2001. - S. 238. - 432 p. - ISBN 5-88093-089-0
Sources
- Almanac of modern Russian statesmen, pp. 570-572.
- Sheremetev Sergey Alekseevich // List to the generals by seniority . Done on September 1, 1896. - SPb. : Military Printing House, 1896. - P. 57.
- http://regiment.ru/bio/SH/53.htm
- Kuban Cossacks and its chieftains // Sergey Alekseevich Sheremetev
- Obituary of Sergey Alekseevich Sheremetev // Caucasian calendar for 1897. - Tiflis, 1896