Nikolai Mikhailovich Leontyev (1717-1769 [1] ) - general-chief of the Russian imperial army , cavalier of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky .
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The only son of the Kiev Governor-General M. I. Leontyev ; cousin of N.I. Panin [2] . He inherited from his parents vast estates in Yaroslavl, Pronsky, Arzamassky and Tver districts, as well as a large estate in Leontyevsky Lane , which he rebuilt.
As a military man, Leont'ev, apparently, had no special talents and was obliged by high ranks exclusively to kinship: through the Naryshkins they were related to the Empress Elizaveta Petrovna . At the beginning of the Seven Years' War, he led one of the five columns of the Russian army that invaded East Prussia ; in the battle of Zorndorf (1758) was captured [2] , but exchanged and remained in Prussia until the conclusion of a peace treaty. On the day of the coronation of Catherine II in 1762, he was promoted to general-anshefa, after which he was dismissed. He settled in a village in the Krapivnensky district of the Tula province [3] .
With his wife Ekaterina Alexandrovna (1721-1786), daughter of Count A. I. Rumyantsev , she did not get along and Elizaveta Petrovna ordered that, in view of the quarrel between the spouses, “she should go to her mother Countess Mary Andreyevna, ” and Major General Leontyev reimbursed her dowry [4] . In “Notes” by E. R. Dashkova, it was stated that “he lost a seventh of his estates and a fourth of his other property from the intrigues of his wife, who, by law, has no right to this estate until his death” and to the request of Ekaterina Dashkova II promised that “His resurrection will be the subject of my first decree, which I will sign”; Dashkova on this occasion noted: “I was all the more pleased that I could render a service to my husband’s family at that time and reject all personal rewards contrary to my inner convictions.” The Leontief spouses had a son - Lieutenant General Mikhail Nikolaevich Leontyev (1740-1784), on which this branch of the Leontief family ended, and daughter Elizabeth (1742–03.01.1760) [5] .
In 1769, N. M. Leont'ev shot, sleeping, the landowner Vonlyarsky, Matvey Sadovsky, who was persuaded by courtyards and peasants Leontiev because of his ill-treatment [3] .
Sources
- ↑ The Diary of the Empress. Catherine II .
- ↑ 1 2 “ Russian genealogy book ” pr. Lobanov-Rostov. —T. 1 .-- S. 325.
- ↑ 1 2 From the papers of Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 21, 2016. Archived January 26, 2016.
- ↑ Prince Yakov Petrovich Shakhovsky Notes
- ↑ TsGIA SPb. f.19. Op. 111. d.48. with. 357.