Count Jozef-Augustus Ilyinsky ( August 18 ( 29 ), 1766 - February 9 ( 21 ), 1844 ) - a large Volyn landowner from the noble family of Ilinsky , the organizer of the Romanov estate. In Russian service, he is known as August Ivanovich Ilyinsky , a real Privy Councilor , Senator, and a real chamberlain.
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Biography
The son of Yan-Kayetan of Ily , who founded the Bernardine Monastery in Zhytomyr ( Ukrainian ) in 1761. The younger brother of General Janusz Stanislav Ilinsky .
At the end of the course at the Theresian Academy in Vienna, he entered the public service and was subsequently elevated by the Empress Maria Theresa as a Count. Since 1788, he served in Poland, first as the chief of the grenadier regiment, then (from February 8, 1793) as inspector general of the entire cavalry. In the Austrian service, he served as vice president of the Court of Appeal of Galicia and Lodomeria. For success in service he received the Order of St. Stanislav and the White Eagle .
After the second partition of Poland, he transferred to the Russian service and on September 7, 1793 was granted Catherine II as a real chamberlain; was the provincial marshal of the Volyn province . Paul I extremely favored Ilyinsky after he rode up to him in Gatchina with a warning about the imminent death of his mother [1] . Upon accession to the throne, Paul appointed him a senator (10/18/1797) with the production of privy councilors , granted orders of St. Anna of the 1st degree, St. Alexander Nevsky and St. John of Jerusalem . In 1800 and 1807 at the highest command, Ilinsky reviewed the administration in a number of provinces of the South-Western Territory.
Count Ilinsky did not skimp on the decoration of his family estate, Romanov , who called Roma nuova ("New Rome") "on the magnificent decorations of every kind, which he bought with big money in St. Petersburg in order to decorate this place of his stay" [2] . Among other things, he bought furniture from the small Trianon , which belonged to Queen Marie Antoinette . The mistress of the house was madame Crae, who formerly sold ladies' headgear in St. Petersburg [2] . Hearing and sight of the hosts and guests delighted the serf theater and orchestra of horn music . The count invited opera singers and ballet artists from Odessa . However, the peasants were in poverty [2] .
Ilinsky made numerous large donations to charity; in 1805, he donated one million Polish zlotys (150,000 rubles in silver) to arrange the first deaf-mute school in Russia [3] in the town of Romanovo, for which he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 1st Step. However, only a few years later, as a contemporary writes, “ we saw a building in which the institute was supposed to be, without glass and in complete destruction; the teacher discharged from Vienna for this subject lived without any job and did not even receive a salary under the contract ” [2] .
Count Ilinsky enjoyed the patronage of Tsarevich Konstantin , since 1812 he was an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Society of Lovers of Sciences, Literature and Arts , and on October 17, 1829 received the rank of Actual Privy Councilor . After the start of the Polish uprising of 1830, he was fired indefinitely on vacation “until he was cured of his illness,” he went into religion, donated a lot to the needs of the church. In 1841 he went to Rome to ask the pope for absolution. He died in St. Petersburg and was buried in the Tsarskoye Selo Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist. One of the streets of Zhytomyr is named after him.
Family
Wife (since 1790) - Countess Eleanor Antonina Komorowska (1770-1838 [4] ), daughter of Yakub Komorowski [5] . According to F. Bulgarin , there was a “nice, smart lady who hosted a society that liked his highness — and that entertained him when he came from Strelna to Petersburg. She was especially friendly with Jeanette Chetvertinskaya and with some other Polish. In the house of Count Ilinsky, or rather, the countess, because he himself did little in society, there was a completely Polish tone, ease, fun, jokes and frank hospitality ” [6] . Her marriage ended in divorce in 1804. In 1811, she became the wife of Podolsk Governor P.M. Litvinov (1760-1834). Sons - Henry (1792-1871) and Jan Stanislav (1795-1860).
Notes
- ↑ https://memoirs.ru/texts/Sanglen_RS82T36N12.htm
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Lib.ru/ Classics: Komarovsky Evgraf Fedotovich. Notes by Count E.F. Komarovsky
- ↑ Bulletin of Europe (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 30, 2015. Archived March 4, 2016.
- ↑ Tadeusz Bobrowski. Pamiętnik mojego życia: O sprawach i ludziach mego czasu . Państ. Instytut Wydawniczy, 1979.T.2. S. 592.
- ↑ Her sister Kordulia Maria Komorowska (1764 — until 1837) was T. Pototsky's second wife.
- ↑ Memoirs of Thaddeus Bulgarin: Parts 1-6. - St. Petersburg: M. D. Olkhin, 1846-1849. - Part 3-4. —1847. - S. 386.
Sources
- Ilinsky, August Ivanovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- Murzanov N.A. Dictionary of Russian Senators. 1711-1917 Materials for biographies / Ed. preparation. D.N. Shilov. - SPb. , 2011. - S. 186. - ISBN 978-5-86007-666-2
- List of civilian ranks of the first four classes of seniority. Compiled at Heroldia and amended on September 1, 1843 . - SPb. , 1843. - S. 16.
- Petersburg necropolis . - T. 2 (D — A). - SPb. , 1908. - S. 264.