Alexander Alexandrovich Sablukov ( February 11, 1746 - May 7, 1828 ) - senator, member of the State Council, president of the College of Manufacture .
Alexander Areksandrovich Sablukov | |||||||
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Date of Birth | February 11, 1746 | ||||||
Date of death | May 7, 1828 (82 years old) | ||||||
Place of death | St. Petersburg | ||||||
Occupation | senator | ||||||
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Biography
Came from a noble family Sablukov . The son of a college adviser, who was camera footman of Tsarina Elizaveta Petrovna since 1738 and later, from 1752, her coffee-maker , who was granted service for estates, Alexander Ulyanovich Sablukov (1712-1773) and his wife Agafya Yakovlevna Dovbezhko (1717-1769).
Received home education. He began his service at the court on August 26, 1762 with a page, and from February 26, 1766, a page-chamber . In September 1767 he was promoted to lieutenant in the Life Guards of the Preobrazhensky Regiment ; Lieutenant-captain since January 6, 1771. In August of the same year, he was sent to Moscow, among other officers, to pacify the unrest that arose in connection with the pestilence that raged there and, for special zeal, was captained on November 6, 1771. In May 1778, he was promoted to foreman , but soon left military service.
In 1780, he was appointed as an assessor of the upper Zemsky court of the St. Petersburg province . In November of the same year, he joined the State Revenue Expedition, and then, with the rank of full state adviser , to the St. Petersburg State Treasury. He was awarded the Order for his service: on September 22, 1786 he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 2 tbsp., And on January 1, 1789 - the Order of St. Anna 1 tbsp. [1] .
At the beginning of the reign of Emperor Paul I led the Expedition on public spending. In 1796, on behalf of the Prosecutor General, Sablukov introduced E. I.V. to the Council. the general statement of state revenues and expenditures for 1797, as well as the statements compiled by him on the amounts of food for the troops and on the number of souls who give and do not give the bread serve. From this time began the rapid official rise of Sablukov. In December 1796 he was promoted to privy councilor and appointed senator, in April 1797 - the assistant minister of the Departments Department, in November - the president of the College of Manufacture and, on the day of the coronation of Emperor Paul I, received 500 peasants as a reward.
In 1799, Sablukova, by then already a knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky , suffered opal. By decree of the emperor on December 18, he was dismissed from service and from all positions with the order to leave St. Petersburg. According to the memoirs of his son, at the time of receiving the decree, Sablukov lay sick in bed in extreme heat and almost raved. But three hours after receiving the order to leave the capital, he was already leaving the city outpost, lying in a carriage, where he was brought tightly wrapped in warm clothes [2] .
However, on December 14, he was again accepted into the service and assumed his previous position. In 1800, he was dismissed from the post of president of the College of Manufactures and on May 25 of the same year, he was promoted to full secret adviser . Under Alexander I, he was appointed a member of the newly established Permanent (then State) Council , where for twenty years he took an active part in the discussion of many important matters. Since 1799, he was an honorary guardian of the St. Petersburg Educational Home, and in 1824 he was appointed chairman of the St. Petersburg Board of Trustees .
In 1816 he was granted 10 thousand acres of land in various provinces of his personal choice. The last years of his life he lived in St. Petersburg in his own house on 26 Neva Embankment , in which many ministers and diplomats gathered. He died in 1828 and was buried in the Lazarevsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra . Sablukov’s letters from Moscow about the plague were published in the Russian Archive in 1866.
Family
He was married to Ekaterina Andreevna Volkova (1756-1820), daughter of the Guard Major Andrei Andreevich Volkov, sister of the playwright ; cavalier lady of the Order of St. Catherine . She was a highly educated and humane woman. I had children in marriage:
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich (1776-1848), major general, author of "Notes" on the time of Emperor Paul I.
- Ekaterina Alexandrovna (1777–1846), maid of honor, married to a real state adviser, chamberlain P. P. Bakunin .
- Natalia Alexandrovna (1779-1855), married to the stalmaster A.I. Mukhanov .
- Alexander Alexandrovich (1782-1857), lieutenant general, military engineer and inventor.
- Sofya Alexandrovna (1787-1875), maid of honor, memoirist and writer, married to Lieutenant General Prince V. A. Madatov .
Ekaterina Andreevna,
wifeNikolay,
a sonCatherine,
daughter
Sources
- ↑ Freiman O. R. Pages for 185 years: Biographies and portraits of former pages (1711-1896), 1894. - P. 859.
- ↑ Notes by N. A. Sablukov // Regicide on March 11, 1801. Collection. - SPb. , 1907. - S. 40.