Aleksander Alekseevich Mukhanov ( October 2, 1802 , Moscow - August 20, 1834 ) - colonel , chamberlain , writer of the Mukhanov family [1] .
| Alexander Alekseevich Mukhanov | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire |
| Years of service | 1819-1830 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles / wars | Russian-Turkish war (1828-1829) |
The son of Senator Alexei Ilyich Mykhanov (1753-1836) from his marriage with Princess Varvara Nikolaevna Trubetskoy (1766-1813). Elder brother N.A. Mukhanov . Received home education. He began his service in 1819 in the Izmaylovsky regiment and, made into the cornet of the Orenburg Ulansky regiment , in 1822 was transferred to the Life Guards Ulansky regiment .
From 1823 to 1825 he was adjutant to the commander of the Finnish Corps A.A. Zakrevsky . According to K. Ya. Bulgakov , who was very close to Mukhanov, he was “mentally betrayed” to Zakrevsky, but this did not prevent the latter from giving such a review about his subordinate in a letter to P. D. Kiselev dated November 27, 1826 [2] :
 | I’ll tell you frankly and actually for you about Mukhanov’s account: he loves news and gossip, is lazy and incapable of work, but he can apply everything. |  |
Despite this, Zakrevsky entrusted Mukhanov with quite important matters, such as secret surveillance of the behavior of students at the Abov Academy. Since 1826, Mukhanov was an adjutant to the commander of the second army, Count P. X. Wittgenstein . Having made several transitions, from 1828 he served in the Semenovsky regiment , participated in the Turkish War (1828-1829). Having reached the rank of captain, in 1830 Mukhanov left military service.
Having retired, he lived in Petersburg. Having entered the service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was sent to Iasi and to Bucharest, where he transferred cholera and miraculously survived. Returning to Moscow, with the rank of chamberlain (1833) and the rank of colonel, he was attached to the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . He was a friend of E. A. Baratynsky , H. V. Putyata , Prince P. A. Vyazemsky , Pushkin and was in great friendship with A. S. Khomyakov [3] .
Mukhanov's literary activity was expressed only by criticism of Madame de Stael's book Ten Years of Exile, published in The Son of the Fatherland in 1825. The sharp article by Mukhanov was followed by an equally sharp article by Pushkin, published in the Moscow Telegraph .
31-year-old Mukhanov died suddenly of pneumonia on August 20, 1834 in St. Petersburg, on the very day of his planned wedding with the famous beauty Aurora Karlovna Shernval , who later married P. H. Demidov , and in her second marriage was A. N. Karamzin . He was buried near the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Uspenskoye in the Aleksandrovsky district of Vladimir province , now the village of Mukhanovo of the Bogorodsky urban settlement of the Sergiev Posad district of the Moscow region.
Notes
- ↑ Pedigree of the Mukhanovs // Russian Archive. - 1878. - Prince. 1 .-- S. 327.
- ↑ Papers of Count Arseniy Andreevich Zakrevsky: Part 2 (1812-1831) // Collection of the Imperial Russian Historical Society. - 1891. - T. 78. - S. 295, 412.
- ↑ Russian Archive. - 1867. - T. 156. - S. 266.