Kutaisov, Pavel Ivanovich

At the age of 7, he was enrolled in the Horse Guards , 10 years was already considered as a Wahmist, in 1795 - the captain of the army, and on January 1, 1796 he was appointed Chief Providence Master. At the same time, his younger brother Alexander was far inferior in abilities and successes and did not have any addiction to military service.

At the request of his father, A. S. Shishkov took the young Kutaisov with him to Dresden and Carlsbad , but this short grand tour , judging by the reviews in Shishkov’s memoirs, did not bring much benefit to the young man. Other contemporaries spoke unflatteringly about Pavel Ivanovich (for example, A. Ya. Bulgakov in letters to his brother).

In the second half of the reign of Paul I , when Kutaisov the father brought the sovereign to Anna Gagarina and married his sister to the sister of this new favorite, he shared favors poured on his father: in January 1800 he was made chamberlain, on May 19 - state secretary , on November 8 - honorary Commander of the Order of Malta .

Immediately upon the accession of Alexander I, he was transferred to the College of Foreign Affairs , where he served for several years, until in 1809 he was transferred to perform the duties of chief prosecutor in one of the Moscow departments of the Senate .

During the French invasion, he led the evacuation of the Moscow Senate to Kazan , receiving a golden snuff box from the emperor “for diligence and care”.

In 1815, Kutaisov was appointed chief prosecutor of the general meeting of Moscow departments, a year later he was promoted to Privy Councilor and in January 1817 to Senator. After moving to St. Petersburg, he was a member of various commissions, including the construction of St. Isaac's Cathedral and the main directorate of the imperial theaters.

In 1826 he was appointed to the Supreme Criminal Court in the case of the Decembrists , and three years later he traveled with an audit to the Transcaucasian Territory . In 1832 he was renamed from jägermeister to hofmeister and was appointed vice president of the Hoff quartermaster's office .

Two years later, he was promoted to chief master and appointed president of the Gof quartermaster's office, but lost his last rank shortly after the fire in the Winter Palace (1838). In 1837, he was appointed a member of the Council of State and "first present in the combined assemblies of the 4th, 5th and 6th departments of the Senate " ^[1] . In 1835, together with the artist Michael Scotty, he visited Italy. In addition to Scotty, he also patronized other young talents, for example, the Chernetsov brothers, at whose disposal he provided a workshop.

He died in March 1840 in his Tambov estate, where he went, taking a year off, to organize his affairs. According to Baron M. A. Korf , there was no important loss in Kutaisov’s death in any respect ^[2] :

He had small dinners and fairly large receptions. He was married, but in the city a common rumor attributed to him, not without reason, effeminate tastes: at least, his outward munching, stiffness and some kind of coquetry led directly to this conclusion. On the contrary, his daughter (married to the Georgian prince Okropir), even as a girl, had all the manners and tricks of a man, so Mademoiselle Kutaisov often called him in the city, and her Monsignor Kutaisov.

Wife (from 05.28.1800) - Princess Praskovya Petrovna Lopukhina (1784–25.04.1870), maid of honor of the court, daughter of St. Prince P.V. Lopukhin and sister of Anna Lopukhina , favorite of Paul I. The wedding was played at the court, later Countess Kutaisova was granted the cavalry ladies of the Order of St. Catherine (Small Cross) (12/05/1836). Together with her husband she was acquainted with Pushkin . Since the late 1830s, she lived almost constantly abroad and, according to a contemporary, was a "sick and strange woman." Having survived her husband for 30 years, she in spite of her tremendous fortune requested and received a widow's pension from the treasury. She was buried at the Tikhvin cemetery . Children:

• Anna (1800-1868), wife of the Georgian prince Okropir (son of George XII ; 1795-1857), who was the soul of the 1832 conspiracy .
• Ivan (1803-1868), breeder; married to Elizabeth Dmitrievna Shepeleva (1812-1839), daughter of General D. D. Shepelev , heiress of one of the Batashev brothers .
• Alexander (1804-06.02.1881), since 1824 the wife of Prince Alexei Alekseevich Golitsyn (1800-1876). According to A. Bulgakov, she was a very cute, smart girl with beautiful black eyes. Died of a stomach ailment in Brussels, is buried there.
• Hippolytus (1806-1851), married since 1834 to one of the most famous in the light of the beautiful sisters of the Urusovs - Princess Natalia Alexandrovna (1814-1882); they have a son, Paul .
• Elizabeth (d. 1813)

• “ Russian portraits of the 18th and 19th centuries. Edition of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich . " Volume 3. No. 57.