Tekutyev, Timofey Petrovich

Timofey Petrovich Tekutyev (c. 1714 - January 1779 ) - Russian statesman, lieutenant-general (April 21, 1773), Smolensk governor.

From the kind of nobles Tekutyev Kashinsky district . In 1730, he was admitted to the Kiev Infantry Regiment as a soldier "from undead". After 7 years, he was appointed lieutenant to the First Moscow Regiment. In 1740, the “guard of the regiment was taken to the Preobrazhensky regiment as regimental secretaries”.

From 1742 - lieutenant captain, from 1748 - Life Guard Captain, from January 1762 - second major, from January 1764 - Life Guard Preobrazhensky Regiment, Prime Major, from September 1766 - Major General .

From September 22, 1767 to December 12, 1774 - Smolensk governor .

December 12, 1774 was followed by a decree on his resignation with the award of his estate in the Gorodok district of the Polotsk governorship ^[1] .

He died in January 1779 (according to other sources, he was still alive in 1782 ^[2] ).

Derzhavin , who met Tekutiev in 1762, wrote about him like this: “This official was a kind, but great shouter, strict and exacting in service” ^[3] .

Timofey Tekutyev is the author of the instruction “Instructions on which to perform the following in home and village orders,” compiled in 1754–1757. in St. Petersburg. The manuscript is kept in the library of Moscow University. In his instructions, Tekutyev to the smallest details described all the needs of rural life - from the time and depth of plowing to recipes for tinctures and pickles. It also contained a description of the interior of the manor house and house works - what they should be with a good owner ^[4] .