Komburley, Mikhail Ivanovich

Born in the family of the Greek merchant Ivan Comburley, who owned land in Novorossia. He began his service in 1776 in the Kharkov Hussar Regiment. In 1788, he participated in the assault on Ochakovo , since 1790 the staff captain of the Elisavetgrad hussar regiment . One triennium was the Yekaterinoslav provincial leader of the nobility (1793-1796). On July 27, 1798 he was granted the status of chamberlain , and on December 21 of the same year he was appointed Kursk governor , however, not for long.

Having learned in advance about the disgrace that was being prepared for him and hearing about the rich heiress Kondratieva who was living in Kursk at that time, Comburley clung to her, in a short time won her heart and got a hand. When a notice of his resignation came from St. Petersburg, he was already a happy husband and owner of 8,000 souls and several tens of thousands of dessiatines, including the largest Sloboda estate Khoten , founded by his wife’s great-grandfather G. Kondratyev ^[1] . Leaving the post on June 23, 1799, he healed a large master. He was promoted to Privy Councilor on April 3, 1804.

The Moscow military governor A. A. Bekleshov recommended Comburley to the governors, but the emperor refused, believing that Moscow needed a governor of a pillar noble Russian family. Then, on the advice of friends, Komburley went to Petersburg, where, having found protection from M.A. Naryshkina , on July 3, 1806 he was appointed Volyn governor , in which position he held until 1815. On April 22, 1811, Comburley was ordered to attend the Governing Senate .

The Volyn landowners, who were in conflict with him, led by Gizycki, created Komburlya a reputation of embezzler ^[2] , and in the end, having acquired 14 thousand souls, he came under investigation on charges of extortion. In 1815, due to complaints and denunciations, Senator Sievers and O.D. Shepping were sent to Volyn province for audit, who discovered many illegal acts of both Governor Comburley and Vice Governor A.D. Khrushchev .

Having connections in St. Petersburg, Komburley wrote complaints to the capital about Sievers' actions, so in January 1816 the highest order was followed by the Senate banning the acceptance of any denunciations from Senator Comburley against Senator Sievers. On the basis of the commission of inquiry in February 1819, a general meeting was held in the State Council, where the votes were divided: 15 senators wanted to deprive Komburlya of the rank of senator, expelled from the service and no longer take anywhere; two senators - leaving in strong suspicion, expelled from the service with publication and not to identify anywhere. This decision has been approved.

In April 1819, St. Petersburg supporters of Komburley managed to reconsider his case, but the Council of State remained the same. According to N. I. Lorer , during the investigation of the governor’s activity “some illegal actions began to be revealed, he was replaced, and his entire staff was put on trial”, and some of the officials were taken into the ranks of the soldiers ^[3] . Count E. F. Komarovsky wrote ^[4] :

Komburley was by his wife and by himself, very rich and knew how to use his wealth. He lived beautifully, acted and acted in general, as was decently in the then circumstances, when there was a theater of war in the province entrusted to him. All taxes and duties were levied, as it should ... Finally, he ruled the Volyn province as governor-general; they killed him, and died while being tried by the government senate .

Komburley died in 1821 with the rank of Actual Privy Councilor. He was buried in the Spiritual Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra . With him the clan of Combourgleigh died out, and its lands were distributed among sons-in-law.

Since 1799 he was married to Anna Andreevna Kondratyeva (1783 - 10/04/1864), daughter of the Life Guards Cornet Andrei Andreevich Kondratyev (d. 1783). She was born at the death of her father in Kursk in the house of her grandmother Stromilova and was raised by her. Her mother, Elizaveta Petrovna, lived with her second husband, N. M. Rakhmanov, almost without a break in the estate of the Great Bobrik . Being a rich heiress, Anna Andreevna had many admirers and the sons of princes and counts got married to her. But for almost forty years, Combourgle was able to recapture this rich bride from them. According to a contemporary, she was “beautiful, modest, quiet and melancholy. She was courteous with everyone, but she didn’t like Polek, accusing them of flirting with her husband, a lively and ardent man, which, however, was fair. One madame cost Comburley to one hundred thousand gold ” ^[5] . March 23, 1812 was granted the cavalry ladies of the Order of St. Catherine (Small Cross) . After her husband’s death, she lived in St. Petersburg, where she enjoyed “general and well-deserved respect” ^[6] . She was buried in Theodore Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra . In addition to the first-born Ivan, who died in infancy, daughters were born in marriage:

• Elizabeth (1805-1859), married to Dmitry Petrovich Buturlin .
• Catherine, married to Count Mikhail Dmitrievich Tolstoy .

• Murzanov N.A., Dictionary of Russian Senators. 1711-1917. Materials for biographies. - SPb., 2011 .-- S. 215.