Engel, Fedor Ivanovich

Came from headquarters officer children. He was assigned to the service on December 25, 1776 in the Life Guards Semyonovsky Regiment ; On January 1, 1787, he was dismissed with the rank of lieutenant , but already on December 14 he was again appointed to the service - at the headquarters of General-Anchef Prince Repnin ; participated in the assault on Ochakov .

Since 1789, Engel was in Moldova and in 1791 was transferred to the Tauride Grenadier Regiment second major. In 1794 he participated in the suppression of the Polish uprising . Produced in 1795 as prime majors, the following year he was dismissed from military service to determine civil affairs and was appointed secretary to Prince Repnin in the province of Riga , with the production of lieutenant colonels. In 1797, he was appointed ruler of the Chancellery to the Order of the Chapel , renamed as outland advisers ; in 1798 he was transferred to an auxiliary bank as a director, and in 1799 to the College of Foreign Affairs .

Since January 1, 1801 - a valid state adviser; On February 23 of the same year he was appointed cabinet secretary of Paul I , but upon accession to the throne of Emperor Alexander I , from April 9, 1801 he was appointed forwarding agent of the State (Permanent) Council for the 1st part of foreign and commercial. In 1810, he was promoted to Privy Councilor and appointed Secretary of State for the Department of State Economy of the State Chancellery . In 1819, Engel was appointed mayor to Feodosia , and from May 25, 1820, he was present in the Governing Senate in the 4th Department, with the dismissal of the Feodosia mayor. In 1821 he was moved to a presence in the 1st department. Engel was a member of various committees and commissions. In 1826, he was a member of the committee established to end extortion, and when appointed to the Supreme Criminal Court in the Decembrists case, he was a member of the commission that determined the categories of state criminals (Decembrists).

From April 24, 1828 he was ordered to attend the Council of State and to correct the position of chairman of the petition commission, pending the appointment of another chairman; On July 31 of the same year he was appointed chairman of the medical council of the Ministry of the Interior (held this position until March 16, 1831), and on December 25 he was ordered to attend the department of laws of the State Council. He was promoted to acting Privy Councilor on April 6, 1830. During the absence of the Minister of the Interior, Count Zakrevsky, Engel temporarily corrected his position three times. Honorary Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences from 09/12/1829.

He was appointed in September 1831 the chairman of the interim board of the Kingdom of Poland , but on December 26 of the same year he was dismissed from this post for a perfect health disorder. With the establishment in the State Council of a special department for the affairs of the Kingdom of Poland, Engel, on February 14, 1832, was ordered to be present in this department, presiding during the absence of Field Marshal Paskevich in the capital. He was buried at the Volkovsky Lutheran cemetery in St. Petersburg ^[1] .

According to the family chronicle, “Engel was a smart man, his conversation, the courtesy of his treatment, the tone of his high society, his good manners made him many friends. But his lack of character ruined his state husband in him and did not allow him to be happy in his private life. Already in his mature years, he did not dare to marry, although between the best brides for him there could only be a difficulty in choosing. He was always content with metresses, from one of which, Ms. Friesel, had a daughter, Nadezhda, married to Baroness Rosen. All these connections were covered by a curtain of decency, until he became a victim of the first geta that came across ” ^[2] .

In 1808, Engel met Anna Karlovna Litke , the wife of a retired major of naval battalions, the Polish nobleman Adamovich. Because of her indecent behavior, this lady was known to many of the sailors when she lived with her husband in Kronstadt (Nicholas I wrote about Engel’s wife in one of his letters in 1831: “a well-known public b ...” ^[3] ). Their relationship lasted two years, like all the previous ones, but in 1810 Engel took her to his Petersburg house, where, together with her relatives, she took possession of everything there. Around 1820, she became his legal wife ^[4] , although no one knew when and where this marriage took place. Her daughter from her first marriage, Sofia Semenovna Adamovich, was married to R. F. Furman ; his son, Ivan Semenovich (1796 — after 1871), a graduate of the Naval Cadet Corps, midshipman, college assessor, according to Engel’s will, received the estate of Zakhody Rechitsa Uyezd , where he was the county leader of the nobility (1851).

• Order of St. Vladimir , 4th class (05/18/792)
• Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree (08.21.1799)
• Order of St. Anne 1st degree (04/18/809) ^[5]
• Order of St. Vladimir , 2nd degree (04/21/1826) ^[6]
• Order of the White Eagle (6/12/1831) ^[7]
• Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (2.10.1829) ^[7]
• Order of St. Vladimir 1st degree (03/26/1832) ^[7]

• Engel, Fedor Ivanovich (senator) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.

• Profile of Fedor Ivanovich Engel on the official website of the RAS