Alexander Nikolayevich Krupensky (1861-1939) - Bessarabian leader of the nobility, public figure of the Russian emigration.
| Alexander Nikolaevich Krupensky | |
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| Date of Birth | August 12, 1861 |
| Place of Birth | Larga Khotyn County Bessarabian province |
| Date of death | May 12, 1939 (77 years old) |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
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| Education | Kiev University |
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Biography
Orthodox. From an old noble family . Large landowner in the Bessarabian province: owned a family estate in Khotinsky district (610 acres), acquired estates in Soroksky and Orhei counties (317 and 200 acres), as well as his wife's estates in Soroksky and Beletsky districts (1700 and 1500 acres).
He graduated from the Kiev 1st gymnasium (1880) and the natural faculty of Kiev University , where he studied biology. In 1885 he entered the service in the Podolsk deputy noble assembly clerical minister of the 1st category.
Ranks: provincial secretary (1886), titular adviser (1894), college assessor (1896), chamberlain (1907), court counselor (1907), college adviser (1907), state adviser (1907), real state adviser (1911), as a hofmeister (1912).
Two years later, he retired and moved to his native province, where he devoted himself to the election service. He was elected honorary magistrate for Khotinsky (1887-1906), Soroksky (1897-1914) and Kishinev counties (1908-1915), and a deputy of the nobility of Khotinsky district (1902-1908). In 1892-1895 he was the zemstvo chief of the Khotinsky district. He was an honorary trustee of the Chisinau real school (1906-1917).
For two three years, was elected provincial leader of the nobility (1908-1912). In this position, he prepared the book "A Brief Essay on the Bessarabian Nobility", published in St. Petersburg. In January 1912, he prematurely resigned as the leader of the nobility.
In 1919, after the revolution and the transition of Bessarabia to Romania , he emigrated to France. He lived in Paris. In 1921, he chaired the monarchist congress in Reichengall , and in 1926 he was a fellow chairman of the organizing committee of the Russian Foreign Congress in Paris. Headed the Russian monarchist party, supporting the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich .
Since 1925 he was a fellow chairman of the board of the Russian hearth in France, and the following year he was elected chairman of the Supreme Monarchical Council . In addition, he was a member of the board of the Committee for Assistance to the Families of Fighters Who Perished for their Homeland, and also chairman of the Assistance Committee for Bessarabia. Contributed to the organization of the Russian Cadet Corps in Versailles . In 1937 he participated in a meeting of Russian national organizations convened after the abduction of General Miller .
He died in 1939 in Paris. He was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois .
He was married to Euphrosyne Aristidovna Casso (1862-1915), sister of the Minister of Education L.A. Casso . Their son: Alexey (b. 1893).
Compositions
Rewards
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (1908);
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. (1914);
- Highest Thanks (1914)
- medal “In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III”
- Red Cross medal "In memory of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905" (1908)
- medal "In memory of the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812"
- Medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty” (1913)
- The insignia "for works on land management" (1913)
Foreign:
- Serbian Order of Saint Sava 1st degree (1911).
Sources
- Centenary of the Kiev First Gymnasium: T. 1. - Kiev, 1911. - S. 351.
- Biographies of the nobles of Bessarabia .
- Russian Abroad in France 1919-2000. L. Mnukhin, M. Avril, V. Losskaya. Moscow, 2008.
- Information about the archive of A. N. Krupensky at the Hoover Institute