Stakhiev, Alexander Stakhievich

The son of a priest of the Church of the Sign in Sarsky Manor (future Tsarskoye Selo) of Empress Catherine I.

He studied at a Latin school in Paris, from where he returned in 1744 and, by personal order of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, was sent this October to further study foreign languages ​​as a student in the Russian mission in Stockholm , where he served first with Baron Luberas, then with Baron Corfe, and since 1748 - under N.I. Panin .

Panin Stakhiev owes his official experience in general to the diplomatic in particular. According to him, in 1750 Stakhiev received the rank of collegium of the cadet, which gave him personal nobility and the possibility of a further diplomatic career.

In 1758 he received the newly established post of adviser to the embassy in Stockholm (as the best of the college of cadets of the mission), which remained until 1775.

In 1760, after the departure of N.I. Panin, he temporarily headed the mission as charge d'affaires. Since 1764 - a resident in Stockholm.

On November 23, 1775 he was granted state advisers and was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Constantinople, where in 1778 he nearly died during the unrest that broke out there; in 1779, Stakhiev contributed a lot to preparing the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Empire and obtained permission for free navigation for Russian ships on the Black Sea; for these works Empress Catherine granted him (1779) 1000 souls in Belarus and the Order of St. Stanislav .

Recalled from Constantinople on January 21, 1781 by the Highest Decree and replaced by Y. I. Bulgakov , Stakhiev received 4,000 rubles on the rise. henceforth, to the definition of "to another matter" - 2000 rubles each. in year. Bulgakov arrived in Constantinople on July 27, but Stakhiev left only on October 9. In 1784-1793, he was listed as “out of work” in the College of Foreign Affairs, and in 1792 he was the leader of the nobility in the city of Rozhestvensky (now abolished) of the St. Petersburg province. On February 1, 1785, Stakhiev, at the suggestion of Princess E.R. Dashkova, was elected a member of the Russian Academy , which he was until his death.

From October 29, 1782 to April 1784, Stakhiev was the Russian secretary of the Free Economic Society. Many of his letters are printed in labor Η. F. Dubrovina, “Accession of Crimea to Russia,” Vol. I - IV, St. Petersburg. 1885-1889, and in the “Readings Mosk. total East. and ancient Ross. "1876, the book. I.

The son of Stakhiev from his marriage with Khionia Grigoryevna Demidova - Alexander Alexandrovich Stakhiev (b. July 13, 1764) also served in the diplomatic part, in 1779 he was with his father in Constantinople, in 1790 he received the rank of overhead. owls and served under the Extraordinary Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary in Copenhagen; being here as a secretary at the bar. Kridenere, Stakhiev fell in love with his wife, the famous Baroness Kridener , who, under the influence of this episode, wrote her famous novel “Valerie”, revealing to him Stakhiev and the story of his hobby. He died on March 24, 1819 in the rank of call. Advisor who received in 1797

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