Yevgeny Petrovich Samsonov (1812-1877) - Colonel of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (resigned as Major General ), senior adjutant of the administration of the Imperial main apartment , participant in the suppression of the Polish uprising . The author of memoirs [1] .
| Evgeny Petrovich Samsonov | |||
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 Artist I.K. Makarov , 1869 | |||
| Date of Birth | December 16, 1812 | ||
| Date of death | February 11, 1877 ( 64) | ||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||
| Rank | major general | ||
| Battles / wars | The suppression of the Polish uprising (1830-1831) | ||
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Biography
From the Samsonov clan descended from the Moscow clerk Semyon Samsonov The son of Lieutenant General Pyotr Aleksandrovich Samsonov (1773-1859) from his marriage to Anna Alexandrovna Islenieva (1774-1866). The brothers are Alexander (1811–1882), Lieutenant General, and Gabriel (1814–1896), General, author of memoirs [2] .
On July 1 ( 13 ), 1829 he was appointed to the service of a lieutenant in the Life Guards Moscow Regiment . Then transferred to the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment . April 19 ( May 1 ) 1831 promoted to ensign . He took part in the suppression of the Polish uprising .
Thanks to the patronage of brother-in-law Alexei Fedorovich Lvov , Samsonov quickly made a career. On July 19 ( 31 ), 1837 , he was appointed adjutant to the gendarme chief and commander of the Imperial main apartment , adjutant general Count Benckendorff .
On May 9 ( 21 ), 1839 he was appointed senior adjutant to the headquarters of the gendarme corps, leaving him in the same regiment. On April 12 ( 24 ), 1843 he was appointed senior adjutant to the administration of the affairs of the Imperial main apartment and His Majesty's own convoy.
On January 6 ( 18 ), 1848 , he was promoted to colonel with admission to the army and the War Department.
With the resignation (1862) he was promoted to major general. Settled in his family estate Bektyshevo with his wife. This period is characterized in the works of the natural-historical department of the Pereslavl-Zalessky historical-art and architectural museum-reserve as “the time of the cultural heyday of the estate”, an architectural and park complex created at the beginning of the 19th century.
Family
In 1836 he was married to Nadezhda Fedorovna Lvova (1818–1895), the daughter of the writer Fedor Petrovich Lvov (1766–1836) and his second wife Elizaveta Nikolaevna Lvova (1788–1864); granddaughter of the architect N. A. Lvov . She was famous as a performer and author of musical compositions, romances, operettas. According to the legend set forth in the novel by K. A. Bolshakov “Flight of Prisoners”, Nadezhda Fedorovna was one of the numerous favorites of Nicholas I and her lover M. Yu. Lermontov . This supposedly affected the sharp deterioration of the emperor’s attitude to the poet. Children:
- Pyotr Evgenievich (1837-1908), gold miner; Married to the daughter of General V.M. Kozlovsky, Natalia.
- Elizaveta Evgenievna (08.23.1840, Weimar—?), Since 1863, wife of Nikolai Stepanovich Volkov (1810-1869), in her second marriage to N. A. Vaganov (1837-1899). She was the organizer of the May Union (1898), one of the first environmental societies in Russia [3] . In a marriage with Volkov, a son was born - Evgeny Nikolaevich Volkov (lieutenant general, governor of the Black Sea and Tauride provinces, the mayor of Moscow) [4] .
Rewards
- Order of St. Anne, 4th class, with the inscription "For Courage" (awarded on October 30, 1831, for courage and courage in the capture of the Warsaw fortification and city rampart )
- Order of St. Anne 2 degrees (January 1, 1847)
- Medal "For the capture of a fit of Warsaw"
- Insignia for military dignity 4 degrees
- The highest goodwill (1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836)
In the literature
Samsonov was the protagonist of K. A. Bolshakov ’s historical novels “Flight of Prisoners” and “Tsar and Lieutenant”; from the point of view of this character, the St. Petersburg light of the times of Nicholas I, Lermontov, Benckendorf (whose adjutant was Samsonov) is described.
Sources
- Centenary of the Ministry of War. Index of biographical information, archival and literary materials relating to ranks of the general composition of the Office of the Ministry of War from 1802 to 1902 inclusive . Book 2, p. 545.
- Ekaterina Lyamina, Natalya Samover. "Poor Joseph." Life and death of Joseph of Vielgorsky. Biography Experience ...
- The history of the estate Bektyshevo
- Vasiliev, S. D. The Scattered Legend / S. D. Vasiliev // Kommunar. - 1975. - October 15. - S. 3-4.
- Alphabetical index of the names of Russian figures for the Russian Biographical Dictionary. Part 2. (M-O) // Collection of the Imperial Russian Historical Society. - Type of. Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1888. - No. 62 . - S. 243 .
Notes
- ↑ Memoirs of Evgeny Petrovich Samsonov // Russian Archive. - 1884. - No. 2, 3.
- ↑ Samsonov G.P. From private notes of an old servant. M., 1895.
- ↑ Elizaveta Evgenievna Vaganova (Samsonova) and Nikolai Alexandrovich Vaganov
- ↑ "... The heir ... chose for himself ... his friend Volkov." From the letters of E.E. Vaganova about the world tour of her son E.N. Volkova with Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich. 1890–1891 . // Journal "Domestic Archives", No. 6, 2016.