Nikolai Aleksandrovich Lunin (20.4.1789-10.6.1848) - Privy Councilor , Stalmeister , son of the Polotsk governor A. M. Lunin [1] .
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Biography
Born in Polotsk. After graduating from the Moscow Noble Guesthouse , at the age of 16 he entered the service in the Moscow branch of the Senate. In 1807 he received the rank of chamber junker .
He participated in the Patriotic War of 1812 , then returned to the bureaucracy; since November 14, 1826, he has been a full state councilor ; since December 31, 1835, he has been a Privy Councilor . In the same 1835 he received the rank of Stalmeister [2] .
Among the awards he had the Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1833), St. Anna 1st degree (1838), St. Vladimir 2nd degree (1840), White Eagle (1842) [2] .
Mason , since 1810 a member of the Moscow box "Neptune" [3] .
Living in the Ryazan province , he showed particular concern for the stud farm created by his father. In addition to Bogorodsky and Zadubrovye, he owned lands in Yegoryevsky and Kirsanovsky counties. In 1827, N. A. Lunin initiated the opening of the Lebedyansk racing society and established his own prize at the races [4] ; in 1834 he became the chief director and chairman of the board of the imperial military equestrian institutions. He was at the chief prosecutor's table in the 7th department of the Senate [1] .
He died in Tsarskoye Selo , but was buried in the clan tomb in Bogorodsky. He had no family and all his possessions passed to his sister Elena Alexandrovna Poludenskaya.
When his cousin, the Decembrist Mikhail Lunin , was sent into exile, he took control of his estates, which he then transferred to his sister, Ekaterina Sergeevna Uvarova [5] . A. Ya. Bulgakov wrote: “What a pity, the right that they do not use it in an active way”, suspecting political unreliability; "I reread all the original letters of the reference to Nikolai Alexandrovich, and if to judge a person by these letters, then that Lunin is the most virtuous person."
Sources
- ↑ 1 2 Ostafyevsky Archive of the Princes Vyazemsky / Correspondence of Prince P. A. Vyazemsky with A. I. Turgenev.
- ↑ 1 2 Lunin Nikolay Aleksandrovich // List of civil ranks of the first IV classes. Corrected on March 20, 1847 - St. Petersburg. : Printing house of the II branch of His Imperial Majesty’s Chancellery , 1847. - P. 105.
- ↑ Serkov A.I. Russian Freemasonry. 1731-2000 Encyclopedic Dictionary. M .: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 2001
- ↑ Lebedyan race of 1841
- ↑ Kashina M. Rod Lunins in Tambov land