Nazimov, Vladimir Ivanovich

He came from the noblemen of the Pskov province, was born on December 20, 1802. ^[3] Father Ivan Vladimirovich (1763-1823) served as the prosecutor of the Pskov Zemstvo court, later he was elected Porkhov county leader of the nobility. Mother Maria Evfimievna Putyatin (1780s - 1852) was aunt Admiral E.V. Putyatin .

After receiving home education in his parental home, he joined the military service on March 21, 1818, as a lieutenant in the Preobrazhensky Life Guard Regiment , where he was promoted to first officer on October 22, 1821, during the regiment’s stay in Vilna . Continuing his service in the regiment, Nazimov rose gradually in ranks (second lieutenant - April 5, 1823, lieutenant - May 31, 1824), and already being headquarters captain (from May 29, 1828) he was with the regiment in the Turkish campaign of 1828-1829 Having crossed the Danube at Isakchi , Nazimov with a regiment followed along the Black Sea coast through Kyustenji to Varna , where he participated in the siege and capture of this fortress.

Due to illness, he remained in Kavarna and only in winter arrived in Podolsk province, where his regiment stood, with which he returned to St. Petersburg in January 1830. On December 6, 1831, Nazimov was promoted to captain and on November 8, 1833, to colonel and transferred to the Life Guards Lithuanian Regiment , but the next 1834 (April 23) he was transferred again to the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment, where he continued his service until 1836 the year when on July 22 he was appointed to be under Sovereign Heir Cesarevich, later Emperor Alexander II .

Nazimov accompanied His Highness on a trip to Russia in 1837 and abroad in 1838, and his highness was sent by courier from Milan to Emperor Nicholas I in a special case. On February 12, 1838, Nazimov was appointed an aide-adjutant with resignation. In this position, he also fulfilled other orders, such as: he was sent to inspect the former infantry reserve divisions of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th infantry corps and was awarded for the execution of the assigned order of the highest favor. He was later sent to inspect the Grenadier Corps and to show the rules of the front-line service. In 1840, he was entrusted with the formation of a combined brigade of troops of the 6th Infantry Corps.

Upon returning to St. Petersburg, Nazimov was sent to the Tula province to take measures on the occasion of a crop failure in this area. In 1841, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of inquiry in Vilna to investigate the case of a secret revolutionary society that allegedly arose in the Western Territory after the execution of Konarsky . Nazimov came to the conclusion that this secret society existed only in the imagination of some fearful people. The then Governor General Mirkovich , at the insinuations of those around him, asked to recall Nazimov and entrust the analysis of the case to another. Nazimov was left only a member of the commission, and A.A. Cavelin was appointed its chairman, who fully confirmed Nazimov's conclusion. Such a solution to the case attracted the ardent sympathies of local society to Nazimov and Cavelin. Nazimov received royal favor. At the same time, Nazimov was appointed president of the military-judicial Commission over chamber junker Oginsky. December 6, 1841 promoted to major general with admission to the retinue of his Imperial Majesty with the abandonment of his Majesty.

From November 5, 1842 to 1849, Nazimov was the chief of staff of the former 6th Infantry Corps in Moscow and was appointed adjutant general for excellent zealous service on April 5, 1849. On November 1 of the same year, he was appointed trustee of the Moscow school district and on December 6, 1849, was promoted to lieutenant general. In the course of the seven-year management of the Moscow school district, Nazimov, having a direct, clear view of things, was able to coordinate the strict fulfillment of his duties with sympathy for the interests of science and literature, and discipline requirements with warm participation for students, who carefully guarded against all hardships and hobbies ^{[ 4]} . With his firm and at the same time humane course of action, Nazimov managed to attract the favor of Emperor Nicholas I to Moscow University.

Honorary Member of Moscow University (1853) ^[5] .

On December 10, 1855, Nazimov was appointed to Vilna the military governor and manager of the civilian unit and Grodno , Kovensky and Minsk Governor-General and Commander of the troops of the Vilna Military District . In this position, Nazimov contributed a lot to giving the landowners of the region a well-known address about the way of life of their peasants, the consequence of which was the famous Highest Rescript of 1857 on the formation of Committees for the provinces to determine new relations between the landlords and the peasants settled on their lands. It was with this document that the process of discussing and preparing the reform on February 19, 1861 for the liberation of the peasants began. In contrast, on September 8, 1859, Nazimov was promoted to general from infantry, and then on December 6, 1859 he was appointed to be a member of the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment.

On April 23, 1861 he was appointed a member of the Council of State with the retirement of his duties in military and civil administration of the Western Territory.

In Vilnius , Nazimov revived cultural and social activities, mainly Polish. In particular, the Vilna Archaeological Commission was formed. In 1859 , the Vilnius Military, Grodno and Coven General Governor, Adjutant General Vladimir Ivanovich Nazimov 1st was a full member of the staff of the Museum of Antiquities of the Vilna Archaeological Commission ^[6] .

Subsequently, this led to accusations of excessive liberalism and connivance with the forces preparing the uprising of 1863 . MN Muravyov, who replaced him as the Vilnius Governor-General , in his notes says that Nazimov, "a short-sighted person, with all his conscientiousness, did not understand the situation in the region and did not find any reasonable measures to suppress the rebellion."

Metropolitan Joseph Vilensky (Semashko) also gives an unflattering assessment to Nazimov, calling him "two-faced, false and intriguing." The latter assessment was personally motivated by the mouth of Metropolitan Joseph, who suspected (unreasonably) Nazimov of informing A.I. Herzen , the secret letter printed in the Bell, to the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod, transferred to the latter by Nazimov, for guidance.

The address presented to him already upon Nazimov’s departure from Vilna on December 20, 1863 is completely different. Nazimov is called the “messenger of peace and royal mercy” here, and his activities aimed at rapprochement and reconciliation of hostile peoples are evaluated as follows: “They say it was a mistake, a mistake. Yes, it was a fallacy, but a generous fallacy that you shared with the government itself and all the noble-minded Russian people. ”

On May 3, 1863, Nazimov was dismissed from his posts ^[7] with the retirement of a member of the Council of State, and on May 1, 1863, he was granted diamond signs of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky . Soon Nazimov was appointed to be present in the Department of State Economy of the State Council. While serving in the Council of State, Nazimov was awarded the Order of St. April 16, 1871 . Vladimir of the 1st degree, and then on the occasion of his fifty years of service in officer ranks, on October 22, 1871, was awarded the Most Gracious Rescript.

Among other awards, the Nazimov had the Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree (September 21, 1832), St. Vladimir of the 4th degree (January 4, 1835), St. Stanislav 3rd degree (January 1, 1838), St. Annas of the 2nd degree (June 25, 1839), St. Stanislav 1st degree (October 10, 1843), St. Anna of the 1st degree (April 25, 1846, the imperial crown was granted to this order on October 19, 1847), the White Eagle (December 6, 1851), St. Alexander Nevsky (December 14, 1855).

Nazimov died on February 11, 1874 in St. Petersburg . During the funeral of his body in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior on February 14, Emperor Alexander II was present. Nazimov was buried in the family estate of Ustye of the Pskov district.

Wife - Anastasia Aleksandrovna Averkieva (02/12/1822 - 06/07/18870), daughter of Senator A.E. Averkiev , was bestowed on the Cavalry Ladies of the Order of St. Catherine (September 13, 1858) for her husband's merits and her charitable activities. According to a contemporary reviewer, she was “gifted by nature with beauty and an unusually kind heart, her playful mind and grace of manners, she, from the first time, won a complete victory over everyone. Her hospitable house in Vilna was open to everyone, every visitor in it was greeted with a warm welcome and the governor general did not constrain anyone. On the birthdays of Anastasia Alexandrovna, the number of people invited to the ball reached 900 people, all of them remained for dinner, and champagne flowed. In general, the first five years after the arrival of the Nazimovs can be called positively the golden age of Vilna ” ^[8] . She died of cancer, was temporarily buried in the Russian cemetery in Nice, later her ashes were transferred to the Ustye family estate.

Children: Maria (12/27/1840?, Godson of Nicholas I and Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna), Alexander (1842-1865), Anna (1843-1894, maid of honor, Saburova's marriage), Mariana (1845-1885, maid of honor) and Anastasia (1848-1908).

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