Yushkov, Ivan Ivanovich

He came from the Yushkov family, which was close to the family of Tsar John Alekseevich . In 1738, "he was at the rooms of Tsarens Catherine Ioannovna and Praskovya Ioannovna." By that time, he already had the military rank of second major ^[2] . In 1739 he was transferred to the Military College as an executor, in 1741 he was granted the rank of lieutenant colonel.

From 1747 - again in the civil service as an adviser to the Justits College . S. M. Solovyov gives a story that once a courier sent from the Senate did not find a single adviser in the collegium. Then the Senate captain was sent to the presence with the order, when advisers appeared, "to keep them under guard until they do the job." After procrastination, counselor Yushkov finally appeared in the institution, explaining his absence by the fact that the ceiling in his house fell off ^[3] .

In 1753, Mr .. was appointed chief judge of the Judicial Order . “A kind man and not a high-handed man and at least knowledgeable of Russian laws, but a lazy, idle and unsteady judge,” - this is how Prince M. M. Shcherbatov characterized Yushkov ^[2] .

In the years 1760-62. managed the Chamber College, then for several months served as the Moscow civil governor. Peter III appointed Yushkov the Metropolitan Police General, subordinating him to Baron Corfu . In 1764 he was transferred to the post of Moscow civil governor, which he performed until his retirement 9 years later.

During the Plague Riot, along with other Moscow leaders, he was among the first to leave the infected city. In 1768, during a police raid, he was caught behind the forbidden game of cards ^[2] .

Having married one of the heirs to the Golovin family , Yushkov acquired several households in Moscow, which gave the name to three Yushkov lanes, one of which is now called Bobrov and the other Nikolsky . On the plan of 1757, Yushkov’s mansions in Kitay-Gorod ^[4] have a note that in the courtyard there are “richly decorated overseas and Russian carriages, Berlin and wheelchairs with horse clothes” ^[5] .

Shortly before his death, he began to build a four-story house-palace on Myasnitskaya , which later housed the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture . The author of the project is traditionally called Vasily Bazhenov .

In addition to two city estates, Yushkov left behind "an extensive semi-suburban estate on the Maiden Field , more than 10 thousand serfs and a myriad of silver, jewelry, fabrics and other things; he had 40 pounds of silverware ” ^[5] .

Married to Nastasya Petrovna , the daughter of the fleet of captain Pyotr Ivanovich Golovin , “a respectable but illiterate woman, which did not prevent her from managing the vast estate with great order” ^[5] . Their son Peter Ivanovich Yushkov , privy councilor, amused the throne with balls and fireworks, opened a serf choir and orchestra at home, which received Glinka's praise. This lifestyle brought Yushkov Jr. to complete ruin ^[6] .