Krupensky, Matvey Egorovich

Descended from an old boyar family of the Moldavian principality . In 1808, during the Russian-Turkish war , he entered the Russian service as a deputy from the Moldavian principality and was in that position until the conclusion of the Bucharest peace treaty on April 12, 1812. Having remained under the commander-in-chief of the Danube army, Admiral Chichagov , Krupensky was appointed assistant manager of the Bessarabian region . Soon he received Russian citizenship.

On September 19, 1812, he was awarded the rank of court counselor "for merits and devotion", and after the Bessarabian region was annexed to Russia, he was entrusted with the management of the treasury region. April 19, 1813 promoted to college advisers , and on April 19, 1818 he was appointed Bessarabian vice-governor. January 7, 1822, granted to the State Councilors . According to the memoirs of F. F. Vigel ,

Since the annexation of the region, M. Ye. Krupensky, who belongs to the boyars family, has played an important role in it. He was vain, like all Moldovans, luxurious, but more familiar with European living. He always had a treasury in his hands, and, following the custom adopted in Iasi, he believed that he could take from her everything that was necessary for him. Especially in the rank of vice-governor with two governors, Bakhmetev and Inzov , he did what he wanted without thinking about the bottom of the reports and responsibility. This day has come for him with the arrival of Vorontsov ; he soon had to leave the service and pay almost all his estate for carelessly made public loans ^[1] .

Dismissed from the service "for the disease" on December 7, 1823. Matvey Yegorovich was acquainted with Pushkin , who often visited Krupensky’s house in Chisinau . He died in 1855 in the village Lomachintsy . He was buried there.

From 1814 he was married to Catherine Khristoforovna Komneno (c. 1792–1843), the eldest daughter of General Christopher Kommeno from his marriage with Princess Maria Muruzi . The marriage of a poor pupil of the Smolny Institute Kommeno with a rich landowner Krupensky was arranged by her relative Princess Roxandra Sturdza . According to contemporaries, Catherine Christopherona was not particularly beautiful, but with her personal qualities she managed to bind her husband to herself and make her home a center for the local Bessarabian and Russian society. Pushkin, in his letters from Chisinau, spoke of her as “a smart, pleasant, and educated woman” ^[2] . Through her two sons, she became the ancestor of an extremely numerous offspring. She married her daughters to representatives of the most noble Fanariot society , and their desires and tastes were not taken into account, the matter was decided solely by the parental will ^[3] . Children:

• Maria (1819—?), Married to Grigory Georgievich Kantakuzen .
• Elizabeth (1821—?), In Suzzo's marriage.
• Nikolay (1822–1893), Bessarabian provincial leader of the nobility, chamberlain.
• George (1823–1864)
• Sophia (1824—?), Married to lieutenant Alkibiades Argiropulo .
• Catherine (1825–1826)

• Russian biographical dictionary : 25 tons. / Under the supervision of A. A. Polovtsov. 1896-1918.
• L. A. Chereisky Pushkin and his entourage. Second edition, supplemented and revised. - L .: Science, 1988. - p. 216.