Zelenoy, Alexander Alekseevich

He was born on August 18 ( 30 ), 1818 in St. Petersburg . From 1831 he was brought up in the Naval Cadet Corps , from which he was released on December 28, 1836 by a midshipman . He served in the Baltic Fleet , made a round-the-world voyage on the Irtysh transport; in 1842 he was promoted to lieutenant.

In 1847 he was dismissed from the military service according to a petition and soon (in 1848) entered the boundary office as a senior member with the rank of collegiate assessor . In 1850 he was promoted to court advisers with the renaming of colonial engineers to the colonels and, at the same time, he was appointed to be the manager of the boundary corps MH Muravyov , and in 1852 received the rank of colonel and the post of assistant corps manager.

With the beginning of the war of 1854-1855. after a preliminary three-month stay in a model infantry regiment, he was appointed commander of the Tobolsk infantry regiment and took part in the defense of Sevastopol , repeatedly distinguished in battles, was wounded and contused, was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree with swords and golden weapons .

On August 27, on the day of the last assault on Sevastopol, when commander-in-chief Prince Gorchakov decided to leave for eleven months with selfless self-denial the Russian stronghold defended by the Russians, the Tobolsk regiment, which received the order "not to let the enemy pass or die on batteries," was to serve as a cover for retreat. Toboltsi stood all night under arms and the last left the ruins of Sevastopol.

- Zelenoy, Alexander Alekseevich // Russian biographical dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.

A year after the end of the war, he was promoted to major general with an appointment to be under the Ministry of State Property ; on the recommendation of MH Muravyov, who recognized Zeleny even during his service on the boundary part (they were also bound by distant kinship, and in 1843-1845 Zelenaya was in a voyage around the world), Alexander Alekseevich Zelenoy assumed the post of Comrade Minister of State Property. After Muravyov left, on January 1, 1862, Green was appointed as the manager of this ministry (already in the rank of lieutenant general ), and on April 17 he was appointed by the Highest Decree the Minister of State Property. In addition, in 1860 he was enrolled in the retinue of His Majesty, and in 1863 he was granted an adjutant general to His Imperial Majesty.

Emperor Alexander II sincerely loved and respected A. A. Zeleny as a truthful and honest person. Alexander Alekseevich Zelenoy could afford to talk about things unpleasant for the emperor. At the same time, Alexander II "did not particularly consider his opinion, although he always listened to him." As the historian I.I. Voronov, A.A. Zelenoy and Alexander II suggested, they were familiar from their childhood ^[1] .

During the administration of the Ministry of State Property Green,

custody over state peasants ceased and their land device began. the ministry itself was transformed and since 1867 began particularly intense work on surveying and withdrawing peasant holdings and issuing owned records.

- Agricultural department for 75 years of its activity (1837–1912) / comp. G. K. Hins and P. A. Shafranov . - Petrograd: Publication of the Office of the Chief Supervisor of Land Management and Agriculture, 1914. - Appendix I. - P. 7.

A. A. Zelenaya presented his economic views on the pages of the newspaper Vest. In the early 1870s he took an active part in organizing a polytechnic exhibition in Moscow , moreover he was elected chairman of the Sevastopol department, and at the end of the exhibition he was appointed chairman of the management of the newly founded Sevastopol museum.

The rank of general from Infantry A. A. Zelenoy received on November 26, 1869. In May 1871, Zelensky suffered a stroke and a year later, due to frustrated health, he was dismissed from April 16 from the post of minister, leaving the rank of a member of the State Council and adjutant general. In the management of the Ministry, he was replaced by P. A. Valuev .

A.A. Zelenoy was one of the initiators of the creation of the Historical Museum in January 1872, and since January 1873 - Chairman of the Museum Administration ^[2] .

He spent his last years in Yalta , where he died on March 9 ( 21 ), 1880 .

Russian Empire:

• Golden semi-saber "For courage" (1856)
• Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree with swords (1857)
• The badge of honor for the XV years of the immaculate service (1857)
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st Class (1858)
• Order of St. Anne 1st Class (1860)
• Order of St. Vladimir of the 2nd degree with swords (1865)
• Order of the White Eagle (1867)
• Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1872)

Foreign states:

• Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 2nd degree with a star (1860)

• Zelenoy, Alexander Alekseevich // Russian biographical dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Zelenoy, Alexander Alekseevich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Green // Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 t.] / Ed. VF Novitsky [et al.]. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-islands I. D. Sytin , 1911-1915.
• Zelenoy Alexander Alekseevich List of generals by seniority: Corrected on the 1st August 1872. - p. 166