Count Gabriel Karlovich de Raymond-Moden ( Charles Louis François Gabriel de Reymond de Mormoiron de Modène , October 17, 1774 - May 11, 1833 ) - French emigrant, chief mayor and corps marshal of the Russian imperial court
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Biography
Representative of a noble French family . The son of Count Francois-Charles de Raymond-Moden, French envoy in the Lower Saxony district and Sweden, chamberlain of the Count of Provence and manager of the Luxembourg Palace , from a marriage with the Philippine de Lleurray (Philippine-Louise-Christophe de Lieurray; 1745-1801) [1 ] [2] . He began his service at the age of 14 in the Carabinieri Regiment of the Count of Provence. At the beginning of the French Revolution, along with other officers of the regiment left France. In 1792 and 1793 he served in the corps of Prince Conde .
In 1793 he entered the Russian service as a major, was under Count V. A. Zubov, and participated in the Persian campaign . Since 1798, adjutant under Count I.P. Saltykov . September 30, 1798 by decree of Paul I received the right to the Russian nobility. At the coronation of Alexander I, he was made a chamber junker , and since 1817 he was the clerk at the court of Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich . With his accession to the throne, from August 22, 1826, he was appointed Ober Jägermeister, instead of K. A. Naryshkin , and was appointed to be under the Empress Alexander Fedorovna, heading the Anichkov Palace and His Majesty’s Own Office.
I took advantage of the special location of the entire royal family. The empress wrote about the count as a man with exquisite manners of the old Versailles court, polite even in jokes and helpful without cringing, the only drawback of which was excessive touchiness [3] . According to A. O. Smirnova , the poet Pushkin ridiculed Moden in the image of an “angry master” in the novel “ Eugene Onegin ” [4] .
He died in May 1833 in St. Petersburg. In a letter to his brother A. Ya. Bulgakov wrote [5] :
| The Pashkovs talked about Modena ... the next day his father-in-law was expected to die, his arms and legs were swollen and he was talking about his death ... So, poor Moden ended his suffering. He was very familiar and capable of his place. It will be difficult to replace him. The glorious had manners, and the true courtier, all this was screwed up by snub-nosed death. Here everyone regrets about him and says that ambition shortened his life. |
Family
Wife (from 1796) - Elizaveta Nikolaevna Saltykova (1773–08.03.1852), granddaughter of the famous Saltychikha [6] . April 21, 1824 [7] was granted the cavalry ladies of the Order of St. Catherine of the Lesser Cross. According to Princess V. Turkestanova , “if Moden didn’t have such a wife as she was created by Heaven, he would be glad to return to Paris” [8] . True, the countess, who adored her husband, was not representative for all her nobility, but there was “a wonderful woman known for her virtue, she and her daughters were sweet and very loved in society” [9] . At the end of her life, she lived almost constantly in Paris. She was buried in the Sergius desert in Strelna. Children:
- Adelaide Gavrilovna (1803-1844), since 1824 the second wife of Major General A.I. Pashkov . She was an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society. According to contemporary reviews, she was a sweet, pleasant, natural and friendly lady [10] .
- Sofia Gavrilovna (1804–1884), maid of honor of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, since 1839 the second wife of Prince Valentin Mikhailovich Shakhovsky (1800–1850), director of the State Commercial Bank.
- Alexandra Gavrilovna (1807-1839), married to Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Zubov (1801-1871). Their daughter is Countess Elizabeth Heiden .
- Maria Gavrilovna (1815–1893), contrary to the wishes of her mother, married General Joseph Frantsevich Dainese (1802–1873). Both spouses are buried in Geneva at Chatelaine Cemetery.
Notes
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=2jB8y91_UOAC&pg=RA2-PA40
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=9BPGb2U5yP8C&pg=PA347
- ↑ Empress Alexandra Fedorovna in her memoirs // Russian Old Man. 1896. T. 88. No. 10. - S. 46.
- ↑ A.O. Smirnova-Rosset. A diary. Memories. - M .: Nauka, 1989 .-- P.199.
- ↑ Bulgakov brothers. Correspondence. T.3. - M .: Zakharov, 2010 .-- 672 p.
- ↑ Daughter - Nikolai Glebovich Saltykov (d. 1775) from his marriage to Countess Anastasia Fedorovna Golovina (1753-1818), daughter-in-law of Saltychikha. Ovdovev, Anastasia Fedorovna Saltykova (1753-1818) married Sergei Nikolaevich Saltykov, the first cousin of her first husband, for the second time. Their daughter Alexandra (d. 1854) was the wife of the well-known minion of fate S.V. Saltykov .
- ↑ Knights of the Order of St. Catherine // List of Knights of the Russian Imperial and Tsarist Orders for 1849. Part I - St. Petersburg: Printing house of the II branch of His Imperial Majesty’s Chancellery, 1850. - 202 p.
- ↑ D.I. Ismail-Zade. Princess Turkestanova. The maid of honor of the highest court. - St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2012 .-- S. 568.
- ↑ Original letters from Russia. 1825-1828. - SPb., 2011 .-- 320 s.
- ↑ Dolly Fickelmon. Diary 1829-1837. All Pushkin Petersburg. - M.: Past, 2009 .-- 1002 p.
Literature
- The newspaper "Northern Bee", 1833, No. 108.
- Edition led. Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich. "Russian portraits of the XVIII and XIX centuries", 1907, T. 4. Issue. 3. No. 92.