Pavel Aleksandrovich Demidov ( December 3 [15], 1869 - June 27, 1935, Nice ) - Volyn provincial leader of the nobility (1907–1915), in the position of Shtalmeister (1910), author of the pedigree of the Demidov clan. The representative of the second line of the senior branch of the genus Demidov [1] .
| Pavel Alexandrovich Demidov | |||||||||
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| Date of Birth | December 3 (15), 1869 | ||||||||
| Place of Birth | Kiev province | ||||||||
| Date of death | June 27, 1935 (65 years old) | ||||||||
| A place of death | Nice , France | ||||||||
| Nationality |  Russian empire | ||||||||
| Occupation | public figure | ||||||||
| Father | Alexander Pavlovich Demidov | ||||||||
| Mother | Alexandra Alexandrovna Abaza | ||||||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 family
- 3 Awards
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 notes
Biography
From the nobility of the Bessarabian province. The son of the chamber junk Alexander Pavlovich Demidov and Alexandra Alexandrovna , nee Abaza. On the father's side are the grandson of Pavel Grigoryevich Demidov and Countess Sophia Alexandrovna Benkendorf, on the mother's side, Major Alexander Mikhailovich Abaza (1826-1889) and Elena Alekseevna Zolotareva. The mother actually left her husband and five children [2] . By 1874, she began an affair with Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich, who was under guardianship “because of a painful state of health”. She shocked the family and society with extraordinary acts, for example, made her way to the house where the prince was under arrest, and lived there with him for ten days [3] . Alexander Pavlovich achieved a divorce.
He graduated from the Nikolaev Cadet Corps (1888) and the Nikolaev Cavalry School in the 1st category (1890), after which he was dismissed from the school with the rank of provincial secretary . September 28, 1890 he entered the service in the Cavalier Guard regiment as a cadet, on November 19 he was made a cornet . May 29, 1893 was approved by the Honorary Trustee of the Demidov Law Lyceum . In 1894 he entered the reserve of the guards cavalry. In 1896-1901 he was the Kremenets district leader of the nobility. On July 20, 1902 he was appointed an official of special assignments of the V class under the Minister of the Interior , and in 1903 he was granted a camera junk .
In 1904 he went to war with Japan as a substitute for the Trans-Baikal Cossack army, accompanying Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich . On July 15, 1905 he was appointed adjutant of the Grand Duke. On August 17, 1907 he was appointed Volyn provincial leader of the nobility , in which position he held until 1915. In 1910 he was granted the position of Shtalmeister , and in 1914 he was promoted to acting State Councilor . He was an honorary trustee of the Kremenets Commercial School, a full member of the Historical and Pedigree Society, a member of the Council of the Ministry of Public Education , an honorary member of the Economic Committee of the St. Petersburg Nikolaev Children's Hospital, and the Volyn provincial trustee of the orphanage. Honorary Justice of the Peace of Zhytomyr and Kremenets Districts.
Having inherited the family archive from his grandfather, in 1910 he published in Zhitomir the book “Pedigree of the Demidov family” [4] , one of the copies of which was donated by the author to his relative Elena Petrovna Demidova, Princess of San Donato and is now stored in the Odessa State Scientific Library named after M. Gorky.
Owned 16,000 acres in the Bessarabian province. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he acquired the old Volyn estate Vishnevets , where he reconstructed the palace under the guidance of Kiev architect Vladislav Gorodetsky (1863-1930), but was soon forced to sell the estate to Count S. Grokholsky [5] .
Pavel Aleksandrovich inherited from his ancestors an art collection and a collection of books, for the restoration and replenishment of which he made a lot of efforts. The Suksun library was transferred to the Vishnevets estate of the Volyn province , and after its sale in the 1900s to the Crimea , where Demidov had a summer residence in Yalta and, possibly, to the estate in Koreiz [4] . After the revolution , both collections remained in Crimea, where they were nationalized and distributed between state cultural institutions. Currently, many works have been lost [4] .
In the summer of 1913, during the First All-Russian Olympic Games in Kiev, the Volyn provincial leader of the nobility Demidov established his personal prize [6] . In 1919, Pavel Alexandrovich with his family emigrated from Crimea to France . He lived in Nice, where he continued to engage in community service. Since 1920, he participated in the work of a local Orthodox parish .
In 1921 he became one of the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nice, in 1929 - the Society of Friends of the Russian Museum . In 1931-1934 he gave presentations on Russian history and Old Russian art in the Circle of Adherents of the Russian Past. Fellow Chairman of the Russian Historical and Genealogical Society in France [7] . He died on June 27, 1935 in Nice. He was buried at the Russian cemetery Kokad . He was married twice.
Family
The first wife (since 1894) was Olga Vasilyevna Sheremeteva (08/08/1874 - 02/02/1967), daughter of Vasily Petrovich Sheremetev and maid of honor Olga Dmitrievna Skobeleva [8] , granddaughter of D. I. Skobelev . The marriage with Demidov ended in divorce, and Olga Vasilievna married Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Kochubey (1860-1937), the son of Prince MV Kochubey . She lived with her daughters constantly in Paris, and only occasionally visited Russia, and usually spent summer and autumn in Dinard and Biarritz . Her daughters were excellent musicians and showed great abilities in dancing and drama, which was taught by the famous Sarah Bernhardt , they often took part in various charity and amateur performances organized in Paris by the French aristocracy. In 1917, after the death of her brother, Olga Vasilievna became a co-heir to the estate in Yurino . She was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois . In marriage were born [9] :
- Olga Pavlovna (1895-1982) - from 1913, husband, captain of the Life Guards of the Horse Regiment, Prince Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy (1881 / 1882-1965);
- Alexandra Pavlovna (1897-1989);
- Zinaida Pavlovna (1899-1980) - husband of Count de Tolosan (in 1945 he was shot by fighters of the French resistance);
The second wife (from 1905?) - Elizaveta (Ella) Fedorovna Trepova (09.24.1885 - 10.20.1978), maid of honor of the court (04.17.1905), daughter of the cavalry general F.F. Trepov . She died in Nice. Children:
- Pavel Pavlovich (1906-1988) - holder of the orders of the Legion of Honor and For Merit to the Nation, was awarded the medal of the French Resistance [10] . The only son of Pavel Pavlovich, Alexander (born 1930), has three children - Nicholas (born 1962), Gabriel (born 1961) and Elizabeth (born 1969) [11] .
- Elizabeth (1909-1979) [12] - husband Prince Nikolai Nikolaevich Obolensky (1905-1993) [13] .
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| Nikita Demidov (1656-1725) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Akinfiy (1678-1745) | Gregory (d. 1728) | Nikita (1680s - 1758) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prokofiy (1710-1786) | Gregory (1715-1761) | Nikita (1724-1789) | Ivan (1708-1730) | Evdokim (1713-1782) | Ivan (1725-1789) | Nikita (1728-1804) | Alexey (d. 1786) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a lion (1745-1801) | Alexander (1737-1803) | Pavel (1739-1821) | Peter (1740-1826) | Nikolay (1773-1828) | Ivan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basil (1769-1861) | Gregory (1765-1827) | Alexey (1771 - until 1841) | Pavel (1798-1840) | Anatoly (1812-1870) | Nikolay (1773-1833) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alexander (1811-1872) | Alexander (1803-1853) | Peter (1807-1862) | Pavel (1809-1858) | Denis (d. 1876) | Pavel (1839-1885) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plato (1840-1892) | Gregory (1837-1870) | St. Prince Nikolay Lopukhin-Demidov (1836-1910) | Alexander (1845-1893) | Michael (1840-1898) | Elym (1868-1943) | Anatoly (1874-1943) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Igor (1873-1946) | Alexander (1870-1937) | Pavel (1869-1935) | Nikolay (1871 - 1957) | Vladimir (1907 - 1983) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rewards
- Order of St. Anne 4 tbsp. with the inscription "for courage" (1896);
- Order of St. Anne 2 tbsp. with swords (1907);
- Order of St. Vladimir 3 tbsp. (1910);
- Order of St. Stanislav 1 tbsp. (1915).
- Medal “In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III” ;
- Medal "In memory of the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II" ;
- Medal "In Memory of the Russo-Japanese War" ;
- Red Cross Medal "In Memory of the Russo-Japanese War" ;
- Medal “In memory of the 25th anniversary of parish schools” ;
- Medal “In memory of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava” ;
- Medal "In memory of the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812"
- Medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty” (1913);
- The insignia "for works on land management."
Foreign:
- Montenegrin Order of Prince Daniel I 4 tbsp. (1894);
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin Order of the Griffin 3 tbsp. (1902);
- Order of Malta , Commander's Cross (1913);
- Bukhara Order of the Golden Star 2 tbsp.
Notes
- ↑ Demidovs // BDT . - M: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 2007. - T. 8. - S. 496. - 768 p. - 65,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-85270-338-5 .
- ↑ In addition to Paul, there were brother Alexander, who died a baby, and sisters Sophia, Maria and Elena, who survived to 1906, 1965 and 1949. respectively.
- ↑ Pchelov E.V. Romanovs. The history of the dynasty. - M: OLMA-PRESS, 2004 .-- S. 289. - 494 p. - (Archive). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-224-01678-9 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 E.P. Pirogov ,. From St. Petersburg to Crimea: new addresses of the book collections of the Demidovs . Date of treatment July 23, 2013. Archived on September 5, 2013.
- ↑ Vyshnevets castle in the village of Vyshnevets . Date of treatment July 23, 2013. Archived on September 5, 2013.
- ↑ Why are Russian women jumping up? The First All-Russian Olympic Games 1913 // Homeland: Journal. - M, 2004. - No. 7 .
- ↑ Russian Abroad in France (1919-2000). Biographical Dictionary in three volumes. . Date of treatment July 23, 2013. Archived on September 5, 2013.
- ↑ Olga Dmitrievna (07/08/1847-1898), maid of honor, sister of mercy in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, a student of the famous singer Polina Viardo , under whose guidance she composed romances, waltzes, marches. From marriage with Sheremetev had 7 children. One of the richest women in Russia, the mistress of Yurinsky castle .
- ↑ Demidovs: tree of the genus (fragment) . Date of treatment July 23, 2013. Archived on September 5, 2013.
- ↑ New in the genealogy of the Demidovs . Date of treatment July 23, 2013. Archived on September 5, 2013.
- ↑ Modern descendants of Grigory Akinfievich Demidov Archival copy of November 29, 2014 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ L. Mnukhin, M. Avril, V. Losskaya. Russian Abroad in France (1919-2000). Biographical Dictionary in three volumes. . Date of treatment July 23, 2013. Archived on September 5, 2013.
- ↑ L. Mnukhin , M. Avril, V. Losskaya. Russian Abroad in France (1919-2000). Biographical Dictionary in three volumes. . Date of treatment July 23, 2013. Archived on September 5, 2013.
Literature
- Collection of biographies of the Cavalry Guard: 1826-1908. - St. Petersburg, 1908. - S. 353.
- Demidov Pavel Aleksandrovich // List of civil ranks of the first four classes. The ranks of the fourth class. Corrected on September 1, 1915. Part two. - Petrograd: Publication of the Inspection Department of His Imperial Majesty’s Chancellery . Senate Printing House, 1915. - S. 2195-2196.