Prince Iona (Assaray) Fedorovich Dondukov ( 1734 - November 30, 1781 ) - foreman, officer of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment , the third son of the Kalmyk Khan Donduk-Ombo ( 1735 - 1741 ) from a marriage with Kabardian princess Jan Kurgokina (Vera Dondukova) (d. 1777 ).
| Prince Iona Fedorovich Dondukov | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1734 |
| Place of Birth | Kalmyk Khanate |
| Date of death | November 30, 1781 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |
| Citizenship |  Russian kingdom |
| Occupation | officer of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment and the Belarusian landowner |
| Father | Donduk Ombo |
| Mother | Jan Kurgokina (Vera Dondukova) |
| Spouse | Maria Vasilyevna Korsakova |
| Children | Vera Ionovna Dondukova (Dondukova-Korsakova) |
Biography
In March 1741, the Kalmyk Khan Donduk-Ombo . After his death, a struggle began for a vacant khan throne between his relatives. Hansha Jan sought to set her eldest 10-year-old son Randul, Dodbi’s older brother, on the khan’s throne.
In September 1741, the tsarist government approved Donuk-Dasha ( 1741 - 1761 ), the grandson of Ayuki-khan , as the new Kalmyk khan. In order to stop the further internecine struggle for power, Khansha Jan and her children were taken to St. Petersburg in the same year 1744 .
In December 1744, in St. Petersburg, Hansha Jan received Orthodox baptism and became Princess Vera Dondukova. Her sons (Randul, Dodbi, Assaray and Dzhubasar) and daughters (Dalek and Bunigar) also converted to Orthodoxy. Randul became Peter, Dodbi became Alexei, Assaray became Iona, Dzhubasar became Philip, Dalek became Love, and Bunigara became Hope. All of them received the princely title and the name of the Dondukovs.
In July 1747, Prince Iona Fedorovich Dondukov was recorded the first cadet corps in St. Petersburg . He entered the service in the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment , where he served until 1774 .
In 1774, the Russian Empress Catherine the Great granted the princes Alexei and Iona Dondukov to the possession of 3,000 souls in the possession of the town of Romanovo ( Orsha district , Mogilev province ). The management of this estate was taken over by Prince Jonah. He retired with the rank of foreman and lived either on his estate or in Petersburg , where he had a house on Podyachnaya street and a summer house between Peterhof and Oranienbaum .
Even while serving in the Preobrazhensky Regiment, Prince Iona Dondukov made friends with Captain Vasily Vassilievich Korsakov (? - 1780 ). In 1780, I.F. Dondukov married his daughter Maria Vasilyevna Korsakova ( 1756 - 1831 ), from whose marriage he had his only daughter Vera ( 1780 - 1833 ). In April 1801, Vera Ionovna Dondukova married Nikita Ivanovich Korsakov ( 1775 - 1857 ), officer of the Horse Guards of the Horse Regiment . Their only daughter, Maria Nikitichna Dondukova-Korsakova ( 1802 - 1884 ), became the wife in 1819 of the captain Mikhail Alexandrovich Korsakov (Dondukova-Korsakova) ( 1794 - 1869 ).
On November 30, 1781, Prince Iona Fedorovich Dondukov died in St. Petersburg and was buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra .
Links
- N. M. Korneva "On the history of the genera Dondukov, Korsakov and Dondukov-Korsakov"
- Assaray at the Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants