Buturlin, Mikhail Dmitrievich

The younger son of Count Dmitry Petrovich Buturlin (1763-1829) from his marriage with Anna Artemyevna Vorontsova (1777-1854). His earliest counts were Count M. Vorontsov and his aunt, Countess Maria Vorontsova. Received a home education, knew four languages. He spent his childhood in the Kaluga estate of the mother Belkino or in the Moscow house of the parents in the German Quarter . After losing the house in the fire of 1812, every winter the family lived in St. Petersburg.

In 1817, Buturlin with five children moved to Florence , where they, with the exception of the father of the family and Michael himself, converted to Catholicism. In Russia, they no longer lived. Only Mikhail Dmitrievich in 1824 returned to his homeland and entered Odessa to serve in the office under the leadership of his relative, Count M. S. Vorontsov . There he met with A.S. Pushkin , who allegedly compared the young helicopter to Yevgeny Onegin :

A. S. Pushkin, a distant relative of our female knee; according to the good Russian custom, we from the first day of our acquaintance began to call each other " mon cousin ". <...> Alexander Sergeevich was known as a free-thinker and almost an atheist, and I was given a warning in advance about him as a dangerous person. <...> when he met me, he said: "My Onegin (he just started writing it then) is you, cousin."

- Buturlin, "Notes"

In 1825, Buturlin, spinning in a secular whirlwind, went to Florence again, arrived in Russia for the second time in 1827, where at the end of March he entered the military service as Junker of the Pavlograd hussars , and participated in the war with Turkey in 1828 difference in Kulevchinskom battle , produced in cornets . In 1831 he participated in the Polish campaign . In May 1832, he retired with the rank of headquarters captain and settled on his estate, where he led a scattered way of life, only being in the service in the office of the Moscow governor-general. Later, he passed his life a stern verdict:

Yes, it is lost, and it is only through my fault that it is lost, that one English fiction writer calls for “the battle of life.” On my side were all the conditions for success: fresh strength, a secular ready-made environment, support in connections, educational development, salon talents <...> serving as a passport and recommendation to that high society, from whose approving smile often depends on the career of young men. I was welcomed by the future-rich future, but the main thing was missing for me: there was no strength of character, no ability to control myself, to <...> cope with the heat of passion and hobbies.

Buturlin was known in society as a good singer, but he had the reputation of Don Juan and Quitel. According to Princess Vera Vyazemskaya , he was "a boring young man, not too clever, but incredibly alive." Quickly squandering his great fortune, in 1853, he was forced to enter active service as an official of special assignments to the Ryazan governor. In 1856 he moved to the same position in Kaluga, in December 1859 he retired, but at the end of 1860 he entered the service of a judicial investigator in the Tarusa district again, he wanted to be elected judge of the peace, but was not supported.

Upon his retirement, he settled in the estate of his wife in the village of Znamensky , Tarusa district of the Kaluga province , driving to Moscow in the winter. In 1867, on the advice of his cousin, N. A. Divova began to write memoirs, partly they were published during his lifetime, but were completely published in the journal Russian Archives (in 1897-1898 and 1901). They begin with the following recognition:

I am neither a statesman, nor a political figure, nor a dignitary (only a court counselor), and did not participate in any remarkable events, except that I was a subaltern officer in the Turkish war of 1828 and 1829 and at the beginning of the Polish war of 1831.

Having received a brilliant education for his time as a young man, Buturlin in the last years of his life studied Russian history a lot and placed several small works in the Readings of the Moscow Society of History and Antiquities , which he was elected as a full member in 1875.

He died in November 1876 in Moscow, in the city hospital, from cancer of the tongue. According to his wishes, he was buried next to his daughter in the necropolis of the Kazan Yavlensky nunnery in Ryazan.

• The notes of Count M. D. Buturlin, brought to 1860 (Memories, autobiography, historical contemporary events to me and heard from old-timers, portraits, impressions, artistic information, literary notes and family chronicle.) // Russian Archive (1897, Book II — XII, 1898, Book I — X).
• Notes on Roman Catholicism (St. Petersburg, 1867).
• The papers of the Florentine central archive concerning Russia. Italian and Latin originals with Russian translation (Moscow, 1871).
• Reports on Moscow by Ivan Pernshtein , Ambassador of Emperor Maximilian II at the Moscow Court in 1575 // CHOIDR. - 1876. - No 2.
• About the burial place of Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky and about where he was treated for injuries in the autumn of 1611 // CHOIDR. 1875. Book. 4. P. 1-47.

His wife is Yekaterina Ivanovna Naryshkina (1816–1861), the daughter of State Counselor Ivan Vasilyevich Naryshkin (1779–1818) from marriage to an Englishwoman, Henrietta Metem (1787–1861). The wedding took place on November 12, 1834 in the hired house of Davydov on Prechistenka . According to A. I. Delvig , “the young bride was very good-looking and very lively person. Although the groom was not old, he was exhausted, toothless and of a very limited mind. From the side of the bride there was no inclination towards the bridegroom, but her mother highly set the genus Buturlin and therefore strongly sought this party for her daughter. She was counting on the wealth of the groom, which was imaginary, since his elder brother greatly deprived him, and the groom himself, badly managed by his part of the estates and carefree life, completely upset him, to such an extent that shortly after the marriage Buturlin had nothing to live " ^[1] . One of the contemporaries, concerned about the material situation of the Buturlin family, wrote in 1842 ^[2] :

Children - Anna (02/24/1837, Rome — 1854, died of the flu) and Dmitry (1847–1917).

• Notes of Count M. D. Buturlin. - Favorite book, Russian manor, 2006. - 1196 p. - (set of 2 books). - ISBN 5-903228-03-8 .
• E. L. Buturlin, Mikhail Dmitrievich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. , 1908. - Vol. 3: Betancourt - Byakster. - p. 553.
• Buturlin, Mikhail Dimitriyevich // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1905. - T. ext. I. - p. 340.
• Mikhail Dmitrievich Buturlin - the prototype of Eugene Onegin (Neopr.) . The appeal date is June 25, 2015.
• Buturlin, Mikhail Dmitrievich on Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants