Ushakov, Sergey Petrovich

Came from the nobility of the Tambov province. Born in the family of Major General Pyotr Sergeyevich Ushakov (1782–1832) from his marriage to Maria Antonovna Tarbeeva (1802–1870), a famous Moscow beauty, who was favored by many prominent dignitaries. Contemporaries considered Ushakov the illegitimate son of Emperor Nicholas I. VV Veresaev , who saw him in Tula, recalled ^[1] :

After graduating from the Page Corps, in 1846 he was enlisted as ensign in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment . In 1847, on the occasion of the war in Hungary, he was on a campaign against the western borders of the empire. Having left his military service, he served as a special assignment officer at the Moscow Military Governor Count A. A. Zakrevsky , whose wife Ushakov’s mother was very friendly ^[2] .

Later he served in the ministry of the imperial court and in the ministry of the interior. In 1861, Ushakov was appointed Samara vice-governor . He actively assisted the governors A. A. Artsimovich , N. P. Mansurov and B. P. Obukhov in managing the province. He was a member of the Provisional Provincial Committee for the introduction of zemstvo bodies. March 27, 1866 received the rank of full state councilor.

From February 19, 1867 to March 24, 1873 he was the Governor of Ufa. On his initiative, in the autumn of 1867 a park was laid in Ufa , later it was called Ushakovsky . March 24, 1873 was appointed Tula Governor, since 1875, Privy Councilor . He was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the city of Tula . Since 1886 - a senator present in the fifth department. After the resignation he lived in St. Petersburg, was an active member of the English Club ^[3] .

He died suddenly in March 1894 and was buried at the All Saints Cemetery in Tula. According to Leo Tolstoy’s recall, Ushakov was “a frivolous, but very kind person” ^[4] .

The first wife, Maria Alexandrovna NN (09/11/1831-04.04.1878), according to Leo Tolstoy, who valued her, was a beautiful woman who kept her husband and the whole family. She died in Tula, was killed by a horse to death. An obituary about her was published on May 13, 1878 in the Tula Provincial Gazette. She was buried at the All Saints Cemetery in Tula. 4 children were married, of which:

• Anna Sergeyevna (1856—?), Married to a publicist Dmitry Alekseevich Khomyakov (1841-1919), son of the Slavophile A. S. Khomyakov . Subsequently, divorcing him, she married the chamberlain of Count Nikolai Alexandrovich Brevern de Lagardee (1856-1929), the son of A. I. Breverne de Lagardee .
• Valentina Sergeevna (1863-1931), maid of honor of the Empress Maria Fedorovna, since 1887 married Nikolai Nikolayevich Gordeev (1850-1906), the leader of the nobility of the Odoevsky district of the Tula province, after the death of her husband she became a sister of mercy in Moscow hospitals. She was an assistant to the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna in the Martha-Mariinsky Convent she created, and after her arrest the second abbess of the monastery ^[5] .

The second wife (from 16.04.1879, Stuttgart) - Baroness Julia (Frederic Carolina Eva) Yulievna Dellingshausen ( 10/04/1844 - 04/04/18/79), was buried at the All Saints Cemetery in Tula.