Obolensky, Pyotr Nikolaevich

The son of Major Prince Nikolai Petrovich Obolensky (1728-1796) from his marriage with Princess Maria Alekseevna Beloselskaya . Received home education.

In 1783 he began serving in the Life Guards Horse Regiment with the rank of second lieutenant . From 1789 the Life Guards captain , from 1793 - the foreman.

In 1793-1795, the vice-governor of the Tula province. In 1794 he received his only order - St. Vladimir III degree.

From 1795, the ruler of the Ascension governorship before his accession to the Kherson province by decree of Paul I of December 12, 1796.

Almost a month was out of work. On January 6, 1797 he was appointed governor of Tula, and the next day he was renamed Major General Counselor from Major General. Already in March of that year he retired.

He lived with his family in Moscow, in his large house on Novinsky Boulevard , where, in addition to relatives and friends, he rarely received anyone ^[1] . In the years 1811-16. he owned the village of Khovrino near Moscow. Obolensky was a widower, so his sister-in-law Kashkina was engaged in all the household work and raising children ^[2] .

According to the memoirs of contemporaries, the prince was "of medium height, with a high forehead, combed back, powdered white hair, smart blue eyes, amiable, cheerful and frisky" ^[3] . The main feature of his character was sincerity, which he was guided in the path of his life. In Moscow, everyone loved him and he enjoyed special trust in society ^[4] . He died in 1833.

1. wife from 1790 Alexandra Fadeevna Tyutcheva (d. 1793), daughter of the wealthy landowner Faddey Petrovich Tyutchev. Died shortly after giving birth, leaving three children:
   • Nikolai Petrovich (1790-1847), lieutenant colonel, participant in the Patriotic War of 1812, married to Princess Natalya Dmitrievna Volkonskaya (d. 1843), their grandson D. D. Obolensky .
   • Daria Petrovna (d. 1798)
   • Maria Petrovna (1793-18 ..), married to Sergey Borisovich Leontiev (1785—?).
2. wife, from 1794, Anna Evgenievna Kashkina (1778-1810), daughter of the General-General and Tula Governor-General E.P. Kashkina . She was the most beautiful of all his daughters: with brown eyes and facial features thin, pretty, tender and loving in character ^[5] . Her engagement with Obolensky, according to the memoirist A. T. Bolotov (who found Obolensky “worthy of love and reverence” ), was on Ascension Day in 1794 in Tula’s governor’s house, after a gala dinner there was a ball where the entire Tula nobility congratulated the young ^[6] . Princess Anna Evgenievna died at the age of 32 during childbirth, leaving 8 children:
   • Evgeny Petrovich (1796-1865), Decembrist.
   • Konstantin Petrovich (1798-1861), staff captain, was arrested for belonging to the Decembrist movement, but by order of Nicholas I was released and transferred to the Jaeger Regiment under supervision. Since 1826, retired, with permission, lived with his father in Moscow. In 1841 he married the wealthy landowner Avdotya Matveevna Chepchugova, they lived separately. She converted to Catholicism and died in Italy in a monastery.
   • Ekaterina Petrovna (1800-1827), married to Lieutenant Andrei Vasilyevich Protasiev (1781-1848).
   • Alexandra Petrovna , married to Alexei Ivanovich Mikhailovsky.
   • Varvara Petrovna (1806-1888), since 1828 married to Alexei Vladimirovich Pronchishchev .
   • Dmitry Petrovich (1809-1854)
   • Natalya Petrovna (1809-1887), since 1838 the second wife of Prince Alexander Petrovich Obolensky .
   • Sergey Petrovich (1810-1849)

• Pyotr Nikolaevich Obolensky, Tula Governor, 1797
• Obolensky - Governor for a year