Semyon Vasilyevich Naryshkin ( 1731 — before 1800 [1] ) - a Russian official and writer from the Naryshkin family; Vice-President of the Berg College (1775-1778), Director of the St. Petersburg Mining School (1776-1777) [2] . The son of Lieutenant General V.V. Naryshkin .
| Semyon Vasilyevich Naryshkin | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1731 |
| Date of death | up to 1800 |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | poet , prose writer , translator |
| Language of Works | Russian |
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Biography
The elder brother of the writer Alexei Naryshkin . Since 1749 he was listed in the Life Guards Semyonovsky Regiment, participated in the Seven Years War , and retired in 1765 as lieutenant colonel [3] . Then he served in the civilian department, first as an executive in the 1st department of the Governing Senate, and then as a prosecutor of the Berg College. In 1767, he was elected as a deputy to the Commission for drafting the New Code from the nobility of the Mikhailovsky district of the then Moscow province , and was present in the private commission "on the average race of people." As a deputy, he supported the idea of separating clan nobles from those who are promoted to officer ranks without being from the noble family. In 1775, State Counselor S.V. Naryshkin replaced M. Kheraskov as Vice President of the Berg College.
In the literary circles of the time, Semyon Vasilievich was known as a prolific writer. In 1757, he translated the speech of Strube de Pirmont , under the heading: "A word about the beginning and changes of Russian laws." Under the influence of Sumarokov, he wrote many elegy and other small poems, published in the academic “ Monthly Works ”, as well as in “ Useful Amusement ” and “ Hardworking Bee ”. He owns the comedy "True Friendship" ("in the taste of Diderot "); two epistles composed by him were printed in 1761 and 1765. A high opinion of the literary merits of the works of Naryshkin was his friend N.I. Novikov .
In 1778, he was “fired for a year” [4] , after which there is no information about him. He died on September 8 (19) [5] and was buried at the Lazarevsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra . Judging by the epitaph on the monument, in the last years of his life he suffered from a mental disorder: “He lost his feelings of health from tender feelings And, having suffered nine years, he forever burst into life.”
Family
Wife Maria Ivanovna (1738-1807), the sister of Field Marshal N.I. Saltykov ; known for the portrait of Levitsky , which is stored in the Louvre . This portrait was brought to France by Didro , who lived in the autumn of 1773 in the house of the Naryshkins couple on Bolshaya Morskaya; there Levitsky also painted a portrait of the philosopher himself [6] .
Daughters - Anastasia Griboedova (d. 1800), the mistress of the Khmelit estate, and Praskovya Yafimovich (1763-1844). The husband of Anastasia Semenovna served as one of Famusov’s prototypes in “ Woe from Wit ”. About Praskovye Semyonovna in the notes of her neighbor on the estate the following is reported:
Her younger daughter, Sofia Ivanovna, had long been married to General Alexander Ivanovich Mamonov , and the other to Runich , a famous mystic, retrograde, pietist, and curator of the Petersburg school district. Her son, Alexander Ivanovich, lived with Praskovya Semyonovna, a man who was already about fifty years old (if not more), whose daughter ran away five years later from her parents' house and married one army infantry officer.
Compositions
- “A Word on the Beginning and Changes of Russian Laws, - Strube de Pyrmont”, trans. with french St. Petersburg, 1756.
- "Epistles to Empress Catherine II", St. Petersburg, 1765
- “A letter to the people of Mr. Thomas and the conversation of poverty with the truth”; perev. with french SPb., 1772
Naryshkin participated in "Translations from the Encyclopedia ", where two articles are placed in his translation: "Saving" and "Natural Law."
Notes
- ↑ Naryshkin, Semen Vasilievich // Petersburg Necropolis / Comp. V.I. Saitov . - SPb. : Printing house of M. M. Stasyulevich , 1912. - T. 3 (M — R). - S. 214.
- ↑ Director of the Mining College
- ↑ Serkov A.I. Russian Freemasonry. 1731-2000. Encyclopedic Dictionary. M .: ROSSPEN, 2001.
- ↑ Semyon Vasilyevich Naryshkin // At the Berg Collegium // A Month with a List of Officials in the State for the Summer of Christmas 1779. Part One. - SPb. : Printing house at the Imperial Academy of Sciences , 1779. - S. 122. - 444, XVIII p.
- ↑ Article by V.P. Stepanov about Naryshkin in the " Dictionary of the Russian Language of the 18th Century ".
- ↑ Paradise B.G. Didro and the Naryshkin brothers // French 1982 Yearbook M., 1984.
Literature
- Naryshkin, Semen Vasilyevich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- Rudakov V.E. Naryshkin, Semen Vasilievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.