Kolycheva, Natalia Fedorovna

The daughter of retired captain Fyodor Petrovich Kolychev (1746–1790) from his marriage with Anna Nikitichna Lokisova (1769–1841). She spent her childhood years in the town of Ryazhsk in the house of a mother widowed soon after the birth of her daughter. Later she lived with her aunt Maria Petrovna Kolycheva ^[2] in Moscow.

In 1812, after the death of Brother Fyodor (1791–1812), who was killed in the Battle of Polotsk , he inherited his estates, which were transferred to him after the death of S. A. and S. S. Kolychev . In January 1815 in St. Petersburg she married a brother brother, a colonel, Baron Lev Karlovich Bode (1787-1859). She brought her husband in a dowry in good condition, but her affairs were confused.

In 1816, Baron Bode retired to get things done better. The first years the couple lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg, then four years without a break in the estate of Kolychevo, Balashov district, Saratov province. Since 1830, they settled in Moscow in a house on Myasnitskaya . With the appointment of Lev Karlovich in 1834 as adviser to the Palace Administration , Natalya Fyodorovna with children moved to the Kremlin , where she lived for more than twenty years. The summer was spent in the Podolsky district in the village of Pokrovsky-Meshersky .

In the Moscow period of his life, Baron Bode made an extremely fast and successful career, had the court titles of chamberlain and chief chamberlain; his wife on August 22, 1851 was granted to the cavalier ladies of the Order of St. Catherine (small cross) . According to the memoirs of S. M. Zagoskin ^[3] :

According to a contemporary, by nature hot and domineering, Baroness Bode "managed to remake herself, and herself, only in a sense of duty, completely obeyed the will of her husband." Moreover, each of them remained true to his convictions: Lev Karlovich, professed Lutheranism, Natalia Fedorovna - Orthodoxy, which did not prevent them from living together for forty-five years in complete agreement. Distinguished by deep religiosity, she raised children in a strictly Orthodox spirit, her own library consisted of spiritual and moral books in French.

Tall, straight and dry, with a big nose and compressed lips, very fine-looking, under the old age Baroness Bode became even more devout and daily attended the service in the home church in the village of Meshchersky. In this village on April 21, 1860, she died of an apoplexy stroke , preparing for a commemoration of Baron Lev Karlovich, who died a year ago. All members of her family were to come to the commemoration, but they did not find her alive, so that the dinner she ordered was served on the day of her burial.

She was buried next to her husband in the village of Meshchersky in a crypt near the church; in 1867, on the occasion of the sale of the estate, their ashes were transported to the village of Lukino of the Zvenigorod district of the Moscow province and placed in the tomb under the church of St. Philip , connecting with the old Russian-style house of the Kolychevskaya manor.

Married had two sons and six daughters (three more children, Alexander, Dmitry and Sophia, died in infancy):

• Anna (1815-1897), maid of honor of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, was very much loved by her, in 1854 she married Prince A.I. Dolgorukov . Her diaries have been preserved, depicting an extremely exalted girl, with all the immediacy of describing her love. Among her heroes was Prince Khozrev-Mirza , the fashionable Moscow doctor A. E. Bers and Prince V. A. Menshikov .
• Natalya (1817–1843), maid of honor, died of a cold received at a ball, buried in the Novospassky monastery in Moscow.
• Maria (1818–1864), maid of honor, was ugly in comparison with the sisters (small and large-headed), lived with her parents, after their death, in 1862 took the veil in the Ascension Monastery under the name of Paisia. Buried in Novospassky monastery in Moscow.
• Catherine (1819–1867), the maid of honor, “was famous for her beauty, extraordinary charm and graceful dexterity in dancing, especially in waltz” ^[4] . From 1843 she was married to Pavel Alexandrovich Olsufiev (1819–1844), died of consumption. The second marriage (from 1850) followed Prince Alexander Sergeevich Vyazemsky (1806–1867), the brother of V. S. Ershova .
• The lion (1820–1855), a major and a chamber junker, died of typhoid. In 1842, with the permission of Metropolitan Philaret, he married his second cousin Anna Ivanovna Kolycheva (1824–1867). After the death of her husband, she settled with the children near New Jerusalem , often traveling with pilgrimage to holy places. In her estate in Zemlyansky district, she arranged a monastery, where she lived in the last years of her life, died and was buried there. Was secretly tonsured under the name of Mary. Their sons: Jacob, Fedor and Nikolai; daughters — Olga (1843–1865; tonsured under the name of the Olympiad) and Anastasia (1852–1876; in marriage for A. I. Khrushchov).
• Mikhail (1824–1888), chief chamberlain, from 1875 inherited the name of Kolychev and was called Bode-Kolychev.
• Elena (1826–1862), maid of honor, married to Andrei Ilyich Baratynsky (1813–1890); they have a son Leo .
• Alexandra (1828—?), Maid of honor, married to Prince Nikolai Andreyevich Obolensky (1822–1867).

• M. L. Bode-Kolychev. Boyarsky family Kolychev. - M .: Synodal Printing House, 1886. - 505 p.
• Russian portraits of the XVIII — XIX centuries . Edition led. Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich. - SPb., 1906. T. 2. Vol. 3. Number 82.