Olive, Wilhelm Nikolaevich

Born May 26, 1795 in America, where his parents fled during the 1789 revolution . Later, under Napoleon , the family returned to France.

Wilhelm graduated from Saint-Cyr Military School . He served in the royal guard. In 1812 he took part in Napoleon’s campaign in Russia and was in the occupation of Moscow; then accompanied Louis XVIII in 1815 during his removal to Ghent and was an “officier dordonnance” under the Duke of Berry.

In 1820, he joined the Russian army - on March 9 he was enlisted in the Life Guards Ulansky Regiment with the rank of lieutenant and became adjutant to Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich . The surviving documents contain a letter from Tsarevich Konstantin to his mother Wilhelm Olive - the Marquis de Cuber, in which it was noted that Wilhelm “was straightforward, sincere and open-minded, did not hesitate to express the truth in his eyes and avoided, as he said, false philanthropy ... ".

January 5, 1828 V.N.Oliv with the rank of captain due to illness left the Russian army. In the first half of the 1830s, the Olive family moved to the Crimea, where land was acquired in the Yalta and Feodosia counties: in the Feodosia district, Olives owned the Kamysh-Burun estate (now the southern part of Arshintsev), the village of Kosh-kui (now - Tasunovo ) and the village of Seit-Eli (now does not exist); in Yalta County in 1834 the estate "Limneiz" was acquired (now - the village of Verkhnyaya Mukhalatka or Olive).

Finally, on December 16, 1841, V.N. Olive accepted Russian citizenship. Since 1844, V.N. Olive was repeatedly elected the leader of the Tauride provincial nobility . At this time, the family lived in Simferopol , in a house belonging to the Raevsky family, with whom Oliva had a long-standing friendship ^[1] .

In the estate Kamysh-Burun, Olive organized the development of limestone ("Olivinsky quarries"); in Koscuy he created a stud farm.

In the spring of 1854, the health of Wilhelm Nikolaevich deteriorated significantly. He moved with his wife to Moscow for treatment, where he died on August 3 ( 15 ), 1854 .

In 1825, V.N. Olive married Sophia Sergeevna Shcherbinina (1806-1883 ^[2] ), behind which there were estates in the Saratov and Ryazan provinces and nine hundred souls of serfs. The wife gave birth to nine children: four sons and five daughters. The first son, Constantine, was baptized in France. Wilhelm Nikolaevich baptized all subsequent sons according to the Catholic rite. The boys in the Olive family were Catholics, and the girls, like the mother, on the contrary, were baptized in the Orthodox rite. The godfather and mother at the baptism of the first-born - the daughter of Mary - were Tsarevich Konstantin Pavlovich himself and the state lady Countess Branitskaya ^[3] .

Children V. N. Oliva:

• Maria married Joseph Nikolaevich Shatilov (1824–1889), nephew of Major General I.V. Shatilov;
• Constantine (1829-1855);
• Natalya
• Joseph (12/25/1835—?); born in Crimea; his godfather was a neighbor, the owner of the Lower Mukhalatka , Major General Ivan Vasilievich Shatilov .
• Elizabeth;
• Alexandra;
• Catherine (1841—?) Was married to Sergei Semenovich Unkovsky (1829-1903);
• Sergey (1844-1909);
• William (1847-1896) was the leader of the nobility of the Tauride province.

Granddaughter - Varvara Sergeevna Unkovskaya - was married to Major General of the Russian Army Dmitry Eduardovich Tenner (1869-1921); their daughter (great-granddaughter of V. N. Oliva) - philologist Ekaterina Dmitrievna Tenner-Meiselman (1902-1977) - was married to the historian of the Japanese theater, ethnographer A. D. Meiselman .

• Nebozhaeva N. Biography
• Polynkin A. The Olive Family on Oryol Land