Vasily Fedorovich Mertens ( March 8, 1761 - March 30, 1839 , St. Petersburg ) - Russian statesman, privy councilor, governor of the Tver and Olonets provinces.
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Predecessor | Ushakov Andrey Aleksandrovich | ||||||
Successor | Rykhlevsky, Andrei Ivanovich | ||||||
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Birth | March 8, 1761 Russian empire | ||||||
Death | March 30, 1839 (78 years) St. Petersburg , Russian Empire | ||||||
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Father | Fedor (Friedrich) Christoforovich Mertens | ||||||
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Biography
Descended from the headquarters of the family of officers.
He began his service in 1773 in the border Dinaburg garrison battalion, from which in 1779 he was transferred from sergeants to non-commissioned officer in the Preobrazhensky regiment. In December of the same year, he was transferred to kvartirmistry, in 1783 to the vice-vahmists and vakhmistry. On March 15, 1784, Martens was granted to the Cavalry Corps by the Horse Guards and promoted to captains in 1789, and on April 11, 1790, he was released from the Cavalry Guard Corps into the army, but resigned and was dismissed in the same year as a major.
In October 1792, he entered the service for the second time Tsarevich Pavel Petrovich as a captain in the Pavlovsk naval battalions and in November he was promoted to second major, and in 1795 to prime minister. After the accession to the throne of Emperor Paul, Martens was promoted to lieutenant colonel at the beginning of 1797, transferred to the Senate battalion, and in 1798 he was promoted to major general.
On April 2, 1800, he was appointed vice-governor to Perm, with renaming into valid state councilors, and on May 1 of the same year he was appointed governor of the Tver province. In 1802 he was dismissed, and in 1804 he was appointed governor of the Olonets province.
As governor of the Olonets province, he served 17 years.
During his reign, important events occurred in various spheres of the life of the region. In 1805 a provincial printing house was opened in Petrozavodsk . In 1810, the construction of the Mariinsky water system was completed (started in 1799). In August 1808, the main national school was transformed into a provincial men's gymnasium. Petrozavodsk district school and city parish school, Petrozavodsk, Vytegorsk, Kargopol and Olonets religious district schools were opened and about 20 rural schools were founded.
In 1808 he was awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 1st degree, in the same 1808 he was granted a 12-year manor lease, consisting in the same maintenance of the fleet of Captain 1st Rank Klokachev, and before the expiration date Mertens, management, ordered to produce 1500 rubles. a year in silver from the State Treasury.
During the Patriotic War of 1812, he provided timely recruitment and sending of recruits to the army, received gunmen for the St. Petersburg militia, was engaged in placing institutions and property evacuated from St. Petersburg (valuables from the Hermitage, Academy of Arts, Archives of the Academy of Sciences, Kunstkamera; books and manuscripts from the Public Library), the acceptance of batches of prisoners of war of the French army, including at the Alexander Plant .
In August 1819, he received in the province of Emperor Alexander I. The Emperor visited the Peter and Paul Church, visited the Aleksandrovsky Plant, the factory hospital, the city hospital, the prison, the public garden, the workers' houses at Golikovka, and was present during the testing of guns.
Later, in July 1822, the emperor ordered to unsubscribe from the bureaucratic possession of a forest cottage with an area of 5,307.5 acres.
On August 7, 1821, V. F. Mertens received an appointment to the Senate. In 1826 he was appointed to the Supreme Criminal Court in the case of the Decembrists .
In 1826, among six senators, he participated in the consideration of the case of A. Pushkin's Andrei Chenier’s elegy.
Died March 30, 1839 in St. Petersburg. Buried at Smolensk Lutheran Cemetery .
Family
He was married to Anna Andreevna (1774-1847). The spouses had two daughters who were married to Petersburg officials: Daria (1789-?; In the marriage of Titov) and Anna (1800–1864; in the marriage of Popov).
Sources
- N. A. Korablev, T. A. Moshina. Olonets governors and governors-general: Biographical guide. - Petrozavodsk: “Building Standard”, 2012. - p. 50-55. - 140 s. - ISBN 5-87870-010-7 .
- Collection of biographies of the Horse Guards