Baron Otto Ottovich (Otto Balthazar) Buksgewden ( German: Otto Balthasar Freiherr von Buxhoeveden ; 1839-1907) - jurist; secret adviser .
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Born December 5, 1839 on the island of Moon in the family of parish judge Otto Magnus of the 1st District and his wife, Janetta Wilhelmina, nee von Gune. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Law School (1861) [2] , then studied in Leipzig .
Comrade Naval Prosecutor.
In 1881, the council of St. Andrew’s parish trusteeship elected him the chairman of the donation committee for the construction of the Kronstadt industrious house , founded by John of Kronstadt . In 1886, he founded the Evangelical House of Diligence (male) ( B. Sampsonievsky , 97) with funds raised from Lutheran merchants. He organized the Committee on the placement of children in peasant families under the Society for the Care of Poor and Sick Children. The committee began its activities in 1891; by the end of the first year, 20 were placed, and by the end of 1893 - already 38 children. In some years, the number of children housed in colonies: Moscow Slavyanka near Tsarskoye Selo, Fedorovskoye near Pavlovsk and the German colony Kipen of Peterhof county, reached 60.
On December 23, 1892, the “Ant” Society was opened ( Furshtatskaya Street , 20), organized with the participation of Baron Buksgevden following the example of the French Societe des fourmis and established on December 5, 1891.
In 1896, he became acquainted with the activities of 10 German work houses, in 1901 he visited correctional institutions in Dresden.
In 1896, he became the founder of the House of industriousness on Bolshaya Okhta ( B. Okhtensky Avenue , 52); in 1897 - the House of industriousness for adolescent children of Galernaya Gavan (since 1899 it was located on the 13th line of Vasilievsky Island , 8), and in 1898 - the Orphanage for industrious children of Sennaya Square and the House of Vyazemsky ( Fontanka , 95) [3 ] .
In 1897 and 1899, Buxgevden founded two completely new types of industrious houses: the industrious House for educated women on Znamenskaya (now Vosstaniya Street , 28 [4] ) and the industrious House for educated men on 17 Nadezhdinskaya (now Mayakovsky Street ) [ 5] .
In 1901, he met with correctional institutions in Italy, in particular, visited the Genoese ship-school. In 1903, he inspected the port cities of Russia with the goal of setting up ship shelters and collecting donations. For the money collected as a result of the trip, a children's shelter ship in Taganrog was established; November 14, 1911 in Kronstadt was opened a shelter-ship of St. Stefan.
In 1902, he recommended that a special children's shelter be established in Nizhny Novgorod in which children could learn crafts [6] .
He was killed on June 12 ( 25 ), 1907 [7] by his mentally ill son Edgar [8] . He was buried at the Smolensk Lutheran cemetery .
His library, in the amount of 380 titles, was transferred to St. Petersburg University [9] .
Notes
- ↑ BBLD - Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital - 2012.
- ↑ List of former inmates ...
- ↑ By 1906, ceased to exist due to lack of funds. The children who were brought in were transferred to the then-founded Olginsky orphanage for industriousness in memory of Baron O. O. Buksgevden.
- ↑ House of industriousness for educated women
- ↑ According to other sources, the upper floor of a wooden mansion on B. Ruzheina St., (now 13 Mira St. ) was rented for building the institution - see “Encyclopedia of Charity” .
- ↑ Nazarevsky Shelter Archived July 25, 2015 to Wayback Machine
- ↑ Petersburg necropolis
- ↑ Day of Death by Buchsgeven, Otto Ottovich in the Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital (German) dictionary - June 8, 1907.
- ↑ Nikolaev N. I. List of the most important book collections ...