Zubov, Alexey Alekseevich

Came from the nobles of the Nizhny Novgorod province . The son of chamberlain Alexei Nikolayevich Zubov (1798-1864) from his marriage to the beloved maid of honor of the Empress Alexandra Alexandrovna Euler (1807-1870). He was a great-grandson of one father and one of the heirs of a major Ural miner A.F. Turchaninov , and a maternal descendant of the mathematician L. Euler and the grandson of General A.H. Euler .

He was brought up in the Page Corps , where his name was written on a marble board. June 16, 1856 from sergeant-sergeant cornet in the cavalry guard . In the same year he entered the Geodesic Department of the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff.

In 1859 he was promoted to lieutenant . After the end of the course, he was promoted to staff captain for distinction. From 1861 to 1863 he was a global mediator in the Yekaterinburg district. In 1862 he was promoted to captain . In 1863 he was appointed to the headquarters of the Vilna Military District. In 1864, he was appointed to serve for a special assignment under the commander of the troops of the Riga Military District.

On January 25, 1865, he was dismissed with the rank of court adviser . On August 30, 1867 he was again appointed captain to the Cavalier Guard regiment, with the appointment of adjutant to Prince A. I. Baryatinsky . In 1868 he was promoted to colonel . On January 16, 1878, he was dismissed in the rank of Major General with a uniform. In 1880 he was appointed Yekaterinoslav vice-governor , and in 1881, Saratov governor.

In 1887, he was appointed comrade in chief of His Imperial Highness’s Owner-in-Office, Chancellery for the Institutions of the Empress Maria Fedorovna and honorary guardian. In 1890, he was dismissed on indefinite leave and granted the rank of Secretary of State of His Imperial Majesty. In 1894, he finally retired ^[4] .

In the second half of the 19th century, Alexei Alekseevich began to gradually sell his patrimonial possessions in the Urals. At first he sold the estate to the Yekaterinburg merchant P. A. Zlokazov, from 1870 he sold Kuyashsky in parts. By 1902, Zubov finally sold all of his Ural possessions and dropped out of the Perm landowners ^[4] . From that moment he finally moved to Florence , where his family lived and where he purchased back in 1874, and in 1878 annexed the neighboring Villa Torricella ( Italian: villa della Torricella ) ^[5] .

Died of diabetes on March 22 (April 4 ^[3] ) 1904 in Florence. He was buried in Paris at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery ^[6] ( photo of the grave ).

General Zubov was married to Maria Nikolaevna Kokoshkina (1841-1917) ^[3] , a Catholic, daughter of the envoy at the Neapolitan court, Nikolai Alexandrovich Kokoshkin and his wife Countess Angelica Adelaide Valabret (daughter of the famous singer Catalani ). The wedding took place on June 5, 1859 in Naples ^[3] . The guarantors were N. D. Kiselev , Count V. D. Bludov and Prince A. M. Urusov. Maria Nikolaevna spent her childhood and youth in Italy; first arrived in St. Petersburg in 1860, where, according to a contemporary, she became the new star of the big world. She was smart, natural, living, like a child of the southern sun, the Grand Duchess said about her: “Little Zubova will raise the dead ,” and was surrounded by the attention of smart men. I. S. Turgenev , who characterized her as a “type of Russian beautiful disgrace” ^[7] , gave her Russian language lessons, Baron A. Meyendorf supervised her reading. The emperor loved to talk with her, and he was occupied by her unexpected and witty conversation. Everywhere she was the soul of society. She inherited a wonderful voice and musical ear from her grandmother, and her singing, light, melodic, direct, was a true pleasure for the audience ^[8] . Died in Florence. They had three daughters:

• Alexandra (June 5 (17), 1860, St. Petersburg - December 5, 1945, Montemelino di Magione, Perugia) ^[3] , in Italy took the name "Adda". In 1878, she married Count Francesco Conestabile della Staffa ( Italian: Conte Francesco Conestabile della Staffa ; 1850-1924) ^[9] , the son of the famous archaeologist Giancarlo Conestabile della Staffa ^[10] .
• Maria (November 3 (15), 1861, Yekaterinburg - December 6, 1913, Robella, Asti), in Italy took the name "Stella" (Stella). In 1881 she married Count Carlo Nicolis di Robilant ( Italian: Carlo Nicolis di Robilant ; 1854-1933) ^[3] .
• Catherine (May 10 (22), 1865, St. Petersburg - November 29, 1929, Florence). The first marriage was married (from January 13, 1884; Florence) ^[11] to Nikolai Savelyevich Metelev (1858—?); the second for Salvatore Monselles ( Italian: Salvatore Monselles ; 1856-1930) ^[3] .

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