Neplyuev, Ivan Nikolaevich

The son of the vice-president of the Commerce College , senator, privy councilor N. I. Neplyuev , grandson of I. I. Neplyuev . Received an initial home education, - was brought up under the leadership of I. I. Golikov .

In 1767, thanks to the cares of his grandfather and the assistance of his great-uncle, Count N. I. Panin , he was sent to study in Sweden. Two years later he returned, in October 1769 he received the rank of an army captain, and in January 1770 he went to " voyage ", accompanied by Major Reizenstein in Western Europe. In 1772 he returned to Russia with a rich stock of various information and knowledge of the Italian language, in the same year he took part in the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774 . Awarded the Order of St. George 4th grade.

In 1793 he was appointed Minsk Governor . In the reign of Paul I with the rank of lieutenant-general retired, and in January 1801 he was appointed senator, with the renaming of the secret advisers. In January 1810 he was appointed a member of the State Council .

In August 1822, he was dismissed due to illness and died a year later in St. Petersburg; buried in his estate in the village of Poddubye, Petersburg Province . According to Prince I. M. Dolgorukov , Neplyuev was:

... a man of limited mind, but rich, dignified, sedate, and worthless; You can definitely say about him: “Goosebumps will not shake off without a kid's glove” (...) I have rarely seen a duller, more boring and poorer person in the treatment of the skills and knowledge of this powdered and smeared senator.

His wife is Natalya Vasilyevna Samarina (September 17, 1777–10.2.1838), the daughter of Senator Vasily Nikolaevich Samarin (1741–1811) and Princess Mary Vasilyevna Mescherskaya (1743–1810), grandchildren of Count A. A. Matveyev ; aunt Yu. F. Samarin . On July 22, 1819, the cavalier Dame of the Order of St. Catherine (small cross) . Married born:

• Ivan (1800-1858), colonel of the Kiev hussar regiment; grandfather of a religious leader N. N. Neplyuev
• Adrian (28.1.1804–12.4.1829)
• Maria (1805–17.03.1871), married (from 10/23/1823) to Prince Elpidifor Parfentevich Engalychev (1802–20.01.1853). In November 1823, K. Ya. Bulgakov wrote that "the guards lancer officer Engalychev took away the daughter of the late senator Neplyuev and immediately married her." According to M. Speransky , this “unprecedented incident interrupted the monotonous life of the city. Prince Engalychev, the stupid father and the stupid family, the son, took Neplyuev's daughter. Mother, they say, was glad: for how long would she not lose this beautiful woman from her hands, and now she is selling without a dowry. In other matters, the girl probably decided on this and for the fact that the mother hate her and there is no other name for her as a whore ” ^[1] . Engalychev was a follower of the sect of the famous Tatarinova . Since 1834, he owned the estate of Voronino , where he built a two-story stone house and broke a park.

• I.M. Dolgorukov. The temples of my heart, or the Dictionary of all those persons with whom I have been in different relationships during my life. - M .: Science, 1997 - p. 259-260.
• Russian biographical dictionary : 25 tons. / Under the supervision of A. A. Polovtsov. 1896-1918.