Matvey Vasilyevich Muromtsev ( 1734 [1] - 1799 ) - lieutenant-general of the Russian imperial army from the Muromtsov family. The first ruler of the Tula governorship (in 1777-84). The organizer of the Balovnevo estate near Dankov .
Muromtsev Matvey Vasilyevich | ||||
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Date of Birth | 1734 | |||
Place of Birth | Russian empire | |||
Date of death | 1799 | |||
Place of death | Russian empire | |||
Affiliation | Russian empire | |||
Rank | Lieutenant general | |||
Battles / Wars | Russian-Turkish War (1768–1774) | |||
Awards and prizes |
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Biography
The son of landowner Vasily Yakovlevich Muromtsev and Evdokia Alexandrovna, nee Bibikova. During the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-74. was quartermaster general (chief of staff) under Count P. A. Rumyantsev . [2] Then he was governor in New Russia in 1775–1777. [3] [4] In 1780, he retired with the rank of lieutenant-general . [five]
He was governor of Tula governorship in 1777-1784: he participated in the elimination of the consequences of the fires of 1779 and 1781 , approved and supervised the implementation of the project of redevelopment and regular building of the city of Tula .
He was awarded the Order of St. George, the 4th degree (No. 241 (201); November 26, 1774 ) and the 3rd degree (No. 51, November 26, 1775 ). He was also awarded other orders of the Russian Empire , including St. Anne of 1 degree.
Matvey Vasilievich began construction of the estate complex in Balovnevo. [2] The Muromtsevs Manor possessed 13 cascading ponds, a landscape park of 96 acres and a garden of 29 acres. According to local historians, Catherine the Great stayed with Muromtsev, for the arrival of which they allegedly created all this luxury, which supposedly resembled a summer royal residence. [6] He also owned the village of Sebino. [7] He died on October 30, 1799 from pleurisy.
Family
He was married twice:
- wife Ekaterina Yakovleva Zasetskaya (1757– circa 1787), daughter of Ensign Yakov Gerasimovich Zasetsky. Ekaterina Yakovlevna died still young, leaving seven children. Matvey Vasilievich fell into a “terrible hypochondria”, from which both the capital's medical luminaries and the Bolotov were unsuccessfully treated by his “electric machine” - some kind of electrophoresis. Healed his new love and marriage to Catherine Alexandrovna Volkova. Children:
- Varvara (1773–1820) - married to Lieutenant General Nikolai Ivanovich Lavrov (1761–1813), the marriage was childless; owned the village of Lavrovo of the Tambov district, which went to her nephews Matthew and Vera Bibikov, the children of Elizabeth’s sister. Died between 1820 and 1825.
- Alexandra (1775 — until 1815) - married since 1797 to Stepan Nikolayevich Volkov.
- Pavel (1777 — until 1816) - lieutenant colonel. He participated in the Polish campaign of A.V. Suvorov (1794), where he was seriously wounded and was forced to go for treatment in Germany.
- Elizabeth (1780 or 1783-1813) - in 1797 graduated from the Imperial Educational Society (8th edition) [8] ; since 1802 she has been married to Pavel Matveyevich Bibikov; their children: Faith (born 1810, deputy Tolstaya) and Matvey (1812-1856), married to their cousin Alexander Matveevna Muromtseva (1833-1897).
- Anna (1782 or 1785 —?) - in 1797 graduated from the Imperial Educational Society (8th edition) [8] ; married to A.I.Treskin.
- Alexander (1786–8.05.1838) —administ M. B. Barclay de Tolly , director of the Moscow German Theater. From 1804 he was married to Princess Varvara Petrovna Vadbolskaya (March 31, 1785–18.03.1825), according to a contemporary, “she was an unenviable little thing, stupid, bad and poor” [9] . The second marriage was married to Praskovya Alexandrovna Arsenieva, daughter of Lieutenant General Alexander Dmitrievich Arsenyev (1766-1819).
- Sophia (1784 or 1787 -?) - in marriage Gints
- the wife, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Volkova (1766–1813), the daughter of A. A. Volkov . According to contemporaries, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna was “a great musician and ... an extraordinary singer”. According to family traditions, Mozart himself dedicated to young Catherine, who was familiar with the great composer, the sonata, but she, “unfortunately, was lost.” Muromtsev Moscow House became a fashionable music salon where celebrities and amateurs performed. Yekaterina Alexandrovna had one more hobby - she stubbornly "collected various Chinese statues, teapots, tables, tables" and in Balovneva arranged the amazing "Chinese Rooms". She loved flowers and exotic plants, the interiors of Moscow and balovnevskogo houses were buried in blooming greenery. In 1812, having learned of the approach of the French to Moscow, she left for Balovnevo, taking with her the best of the values ​​of the Moscow house. What was her despair when unexpectedly her son Matvey was brought to the estate in a hopeless condition and seriously wounded stepson Alexander. However, caring care, youth and life-giving rural nature helped both of them to rise to their feet and in April 1813 to return to their regiment. Catherine Alexandrovna was not able to enjoy a great victory. She died shortly before the capture of Paris by Russian troops. Children:
- Matvey (1790–3.02.1879) - adjutant of S. F. Golitsyn and General A. P. Yermolov ; Acting State Counselor, Ryazan provincial leader of the nobility; Vladimir Vice-Governor. From 1816 he was married to Varvara Gavrilovna Bibikova (born 1792), the sister of D. G. Bibikov . Their children: Catherine (03.03.1817–11.12.1834), Peter (10.10.1818–23.10.1831), Elizaveta (in deputy Novosiltsova), Leonid (04/10/1825–20.09.1899), Barbara (born 1828 ; in the deputy of Mironov), Pavel (1.03.1829 —?), Alexandra (1833–27.04.1897; married to cousin Matthew Bibikov)
- Pyotr - Second Lieutenant, father of a major oilman Peter Petrovich Muromtsev (1828-1906)
- Catherine - in the deputy of Schneider; husband - artillery Colonel Ivan Yakovlevich Schneider.
See also
- List of Heads of the Tula Region
Notes
- ↑ According to other sources, 1737
- ↑ 1 2 Balovnevo. Manor Muromtsevs
- ↑ Muromtsev Matvey Vasilievich
- ↑ Secular and ecclesiastical authority of Novorossia (Ekaterinoslav, Kherson and Tauride provinces) of the first half of the XVIII-XIX centuries
- ↑ In 1780, Matthew Muromtsev
- ↑ About the “Russian Eiffel Tower”, the treasures of the ataman and Catherine the Great
- ↑ Holy Dormition Church Sebino village (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is July 14, 2013. Archived May 20, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 1. ↑ NPPcherepnin The Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens. Historical essay 1764-1914 Petrograd State Printing House 1915 Volume 3
- ↑ Letters from Ya. I. Bulgakov to his son // Russian Archive. 1898. Vol. 1-4. - p. 527.