Yuri Alekseevich Rzhevsky (1674 - April 17, 1729, Moscow ) was a state councilor in Nizhny Novgorod, the governor of Nizhny Novgorod (1719-1728) of the Rzhevskys .
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Biography
Yuri Alekseevich Rzhevsky was born in the family of Alexei Ivanovich Rzhevsky - the governor in Vyatka and Samara , managing the order of the Big Treasury . Perhaps as a child he served in the amusing troops of Tsarevich Peter Alekseevich - the future Tsar Peter I [1] . In his youth, he was a steward in the royal family, he studied maritime business in Venice (1697–1698), then served in the Transfiguration Regiment , reaching the rank of lieutenant captain . Since 1714 - Kolomna landowner.
In 1718, Rzhevsky was sent by Peter I to Nizhny Novgorod at the head of a detachment sent to help Bishop Pitirim , who at that time was fighting with the Old Believers . Rzhevsky took drastic measures. In particular, the ideologue of the Old Believers, Deacon Alexander , who was later beheaded, was forced to abdicate his views. Many of his followers were sent to penal servitude, women to monasteries. For some time he broke the resistance of the local Old Believers. Impressed by this success, in March 1719, Pitirim petitioned to St. Petersburg to be the “vice-governor urgently” to “Rzhevsky in Nizhny” [2] . By decree of Peter I "On the device of the provinces" dated May 29, 1719, the Nizhny Novgorod province was returned from Kazan and Rzhevsky was appointed to head the vice-governor.
In 1722, the Vice-Governor Rzhevsky and the intendant Potemkin received a decree of Peter I to build a shipyard in Nizhny Novgorod. Starting in May 1722 on the Persian campaign , Peter I arrived in Nizhny Novgorod, and a flotilla of 245 ships prepared by Nizhny Novgorod was waiting for the tsarist troops. Together with Bishop Pitirim, Rzhevsky also contributed to the construction of the Alekseevskaya Church on the Blagoveshchenskaya Square in Nizhny Novgorod. The subsequent activity of Yu. A. Rzhevsky was connected with the development of ship case, salt extraction and liquidation of the consequences of the terrible fire of 1722 in the province. After the death of Peter I, Rzhevsky fell out of favor. The charge, filed in 1725 by Major General S. A. Saltykov , who led the general audit (population census), states:
| He gave birth to an order without orders from the commissioners who were at the gathering - demanding firewood, carts, counters, dispatchers, caretakers, etc. from the county people, and 13,300 rubles were collected in such ten extra charges. Yes, in the Palace seven volosts appeared above the above mentioned extra charges of 18,250 rubles. And the whole of them, Rzhevsky, went through extra money from the county people 31,550 rubles. [one] |
In January 1726, Rzhevsky was removed from his post by the Senate and summoned to St. Petersburg, where he remained until July 1727, until he received permission from the new emperor Peter II to return to the province. But already in 1728, the investigation of the Rzhevsky case was resumed under the leadership of Prince Semyon Gagarin [3] . At the end of 1728, Rzhevsky, again dismissed, left Nizhny Novgorod and died in Moscow in April of the following year. According to the results of the investigation, the estate of Rzhevskys was confiscated [1] .
Family
His daughter:
- Sarah (ca. 1721 - not earlier than 1790) - married (since 1742) to the retired captain Alexei Fedorovich Pushkin [4] . Her daughter Maria (granddaughter of Rzhevsky) is the grandmother of A. S. Pushkin [5] . A. A. Delvig recalled: "She, without a doubt, was the first teacher of the future poet ... She learned him Russian reading and writing" [6] . It is believed that Pushkin’s lines [7] were devoted to her (Maria Alekseevna):
| I love from the grandmother of Moscow I keep talking about my relatives About fat-bellied antiquity. |
- Anna is married to F.P. Kvashnin-Samarin .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Rzhevsky Yu. A. (1719-1729) Archival copy of October 6, 2014 on the Wayback Machine (Nizhny Novgorod: the official city portal)
- ↑ Solovyov SM. The history of Russia since ancient times. - T. 16.
- It is assumed that the investigation of the abuses was led by Prince S.I. Gagarin , after which he was transferred to the Office of confiscations .
- ↑ Cherkashin A. A., Cherkashina L. A. The millennial tree of A. S. Pushkin: roots and crown. - M .: Libereya-Bibinform, 2005. - 200 p. - p. 58, 68.
- ↑ T. Yu. Maltseva Hannibaly and Pushkin in the Pskov Region. - M., 1999
- ↑ Pushkin Encyclopedia "Mikhailovskoye", T. 1. - M .: Cyrillic: Consul-SKS; Mikhailovskoye village: Mikhailovskoye, 2003. - 448 p. - 2000 copies - ISBN 5-94595-026-9 .
- ↑ P. I. Bartenev Annals of the State Literary Museum. - M., 1936.
Literature
- F. Seleznev. The First Persons of the Nizhny Novgorod Province of the 18th — 20th Centuries.
- Kupriyanov N. I. To this: Alexander Pushkin. - Gorky, 1988. - p. 11-22.
- Kupriyanov N. I. Rzhevsky Yuri Alekseevich (1674-1729) // Nizhny Novgorod Region: Facts, Events, People. - 2nd ed. - N.Novgorod, 1997. - p. 130.
- I. Makarov. "Money is taken from the beard": a story about the first Nizhny Novgorod governor // Courier. - 1992. - № 13. - С.6.
Links
- Rzhevsky Yu. A. (1719-1729) (Nizhny Novgorod: the official city portal)
- Rzhevsky Yuri (Georgy) Alekseevich (Mari history in faces)
- Maria and Osip Hannibal on the culture site of the Pskov region.